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| Record Name(s) | Gulf Minerals DDH Z-9 - 1976 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 2000-May-09 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Mar-06 |
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Primary Commodities: Nickel
Township or Area: Zavitz
Latitude: 48° 0' 53.42" Longitude: -81° 5' 2.54"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 493732.905 Northing: 5317952.994 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 42A03SE
Point Location Description: Collar of Gulf Mineral Canad Ltd. DDH Z-9
Location Method: Based on Assessment
Access Description: From Matachewan, Take Highway 561 W for 30 KM. Turn onto Forest Access Rd. and follow for 20 k to Moray Lake turnoff Take Moray Lake Road North to the occurrence area.
1976 Gulf Mineral LTD completed 8 diamond drill holes on 2 properties in SE Zavitz Tp. Occurrence grade nickel intercepts were cut in 4 widely spaced ddh all located to the S and W of Moray Lake. A MDI record exists for each drill hole. DDH Z-9 cut a serpentinized ultramafic rock followed by a felsic metavolcanic. The ultramafic was intersected from 13 to 275 ft. down the hole. Fout intervals returned nickel values 32.5 to 37.5 ft. (5.0 ft.) 0.14% Ni, 87 to 92 ft. (5.0 ft. ) 0.15% Ni, 163 to 168 ft. (5.0 ft.) 0.29 % Ni, 245 to 250 ft. (5.0 ft.) 0.25% Ni.
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Geological Age: Neoarchean
Dec 07, 2005 (G Seim) - The host ultramafic rock is fine to medium grained and commonly serpentinized. Talc and asbestos mineralization is minor. Calcite alteration is common. The rock is magnetic. The adjacent felsic metavolcanic is decribed as massice to agglomeritic. It is commonly chloritized and altererd by calcite. It contains minor amounts of py, po, and traces of cp. but assays did not return anomalous values.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Ultramafic-Unsubdivided | 1 | Host |
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| Felsic lava flow-unsubdivided | 2 | Massive To Agglomeritic | Near |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| Serpentine | Alteration | Serpentinization | 1 | Replacement | |||
| Talc | Alteration | Serpentinization | 2 | Replacement | |||
| Asbestos | Alteration | Serpentinization | 3 | Replacement |
Dec 07, 2005 (G Seim) - No sulphides are noted in the drill logg corresponding to the assay intervals.
File - Resident Geologist file T-2672
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