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| Record Name(s) | Hanna Mining Sample 6035 - 1972 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 2003-Dec-17 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Feb-28 |
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Primary Commodities: Nickel
Township or Area: Deloro
Latitude: 48° 23' 29.25" Longitude: -81° 18' 47.36"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 476817.308 Northing: 5359858.019 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 42A06NW
Point Location Description: Hanna Mining Company sample site 6035 in T-3840
Location Method: Based on Assessment
Access Description: Take Pine St. south from timmins to the bush trail that crossed the Dayton Porcupine patents about 1 km south of Meadow Lake. Hanna Mining report states that the sample site is 3400 ft. W on bush road on Dayton Porc. cls. and 75 ft. N. of road, an outcrop about 200 ft. long in a NW direction and 50 ft. wide.
In 1927, Hanna Mining Company under took a regional lithogeochemisty program that sample ultramafic rocks through out the Timmins District. Sample 6035 returned 115 ppm Cu, 3300 ppm Ni (total) and 39.8 wt % MgO. The nickel sulphide assay was 1000 ppm while the sulphur assay was 800 ppm. The sample consisted of 1 inch pieces picked fro 5 spots irregularyl spaced about the outcrop.
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Tectonic Assemblage: Deloro
Geological Age: Neoarchean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Peridotite | 1 | Serpenitized Peridotite | Host |
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Dec 07, 2005 (G Seim) - Slighty rusty weathering to fresh rock is chielfy yellowish green serpentinite with a waxy lustre. There are fairly numerous veinlets of chrysotile fibre. about 1/32 to 1/16 inch wide. Some tiny grains of magnetite some which are distributed along the centre of the chrysotile veinlet. In places there are tiny specks of pyrite.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue |
Dec 07, 2005 (G Seim) - Sample 6035 returned 115 ppm Cu, 3300 ppm Ni (total) and 39.8 wt % MgO. The nickel sulphide (S2-Ni) assay was 1000 ppm while the sulphur assay was 800 ppm. Sample 6096 returned 30 ppm Cu, 3300 ppm Ni, 1260 ppm S2-Ni, 630 ppm S. Sample 6097 returned 116 ppm Cu, 6400 ppm Ni, 2700 ppm S2-Ni, 1320 ppm S.
File - Resident Geologist file T-3840
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