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Record: MDI42C12NW00047

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) MoS2 Caulfield - 1983
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 1991-Apr-01
Date Last Modified 2022-May-09
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Molybdenum

Secondary Commodities: Copper



Location

Township or Area: Wabikoba Lake Area

Latitude: 48° 43' 18.59"    Longitude: -85° 57' 20.11"

UTM Zone: 16    Easting: 576815   Northing: 5397060    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South

NTS Grid: 42C12NW

Point Location Description: Point 36 on OGS map M2614

Location Method: Data Compilation



Exploration History

1983: Caulfield Resources carried out soil sampling, magnetometer and VLF-EM surveys, and drilled 3 DDH totalling 593.3 m. 2003: Williams Operation Corp. conducted magnetometric and VLF-EM surveys.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
22 42C12NW0128 42C12NW0128
2.5898 42C12NW0107 42C12NW0107
63.4392 42C12NW0032 42C12NW0032
2.5873 42C12NW0114 42C12NW0114
2.5136 42C12NW0140 42C12NW0140
2.5667 42C12NW0132 42C12NW0132
2.26328 42C12NW2007 42C12NW2007

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Wawa

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Schreiber-Hemlo

Geological Age: Archean  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Intermediate Tuff 1 Tuff
Siltstone 2 Argillaceous
Vein 3 Quartz Host

Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1ChalcopyriteEconomicOre
2PyriteEconomicOre
3MolybdeniteEconomicOre
4PyrrhotiteEconomicOre

Mineralization Comments

Mar 22, 2019 (Therese Pettigrew) - Muir (2000) describes the showing as clots and disseminated molybdenite and pyrite in quartz veinlets in intermediate tuff and argillaceous sediments. DDH 421-83-1 assayed up to 84 ppm Cu and 36 ppm Ni from interbedded argillaceous metasediments and ash tuff. DDH 427-83-2 assayed up to 46 ppm Ni (Assessment file 42C12NW0128).



Mineral Record Details

References

File - Resident Geologist Mineral Deposit Files

Publication Number: Min Dep Date: 1996

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: Thunder Bay RGP


Map - Geological Compilation of the Eastern Half of the Schreiber-Hemlo Greenstone Belt

Publication Number: M2614 Scale: 1:50,000    Date: 2000

Author: Muir T.L.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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