Ontario Geological Survey
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Record Name(s) | Phantom Zone - 2000, Inco - 1963, Kenogamisis-Chellew - 1953 |
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Related Record Type | Simple |
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Record Status | Occurrence |
Date Created | 1980-Aug-18 |
Date Last Modified | 2022-Mar-02 |
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Primary Commodities: Nickel
Secondary Commodities: Copper, Platinum, Palladium
Township or Area: Cirrus Lake Area
Latitude: 48° 54' 5.22" Longitude: -86° 14' 53.31"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 555101 Northing: 5416773 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid: 42D16NE
Point Location Description: Sample C035005 from AFRI 20000002338
Location Method: Based on Assessment
1953: MacLeod-Cockshutt Gold Mines Ltd. carried out an airborne magnetometer survey. 1954: MacLeod-Cockshutt Gold Mines carried out magnetometer and EM surveys. 1963: Inco drilled 7 DDH totalling about 915 m. Values from these holes are unknown. 2000: Freewest Resources discovered the Phantom Zone while conducting geological mapping and prospecting. 2007: Benton Resources carried out geological mapping, sampling, and a VTEM survey. 2008: Benton Resources drilled 2 DDH totalling 412 m.
Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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63.410 | 42D16NE0033 | 42D16NE0033 |
63.409 | 42D16NE0029 | 42D16NE0029 |
2.40609 | 20000003919 | 20000003919 |
15 | 42D16NE0022 | 42D16NE0022 |
2.35616 | 20000002338 | 20000002338 |
2.37188 | 20000000057 | 20000000057 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wawa
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Schreiber-Hemlo
Geological Age: Archean
Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 |
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Ultramafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 2 | Host | ||
Ultramafic-Unsubdivided | 3 |
Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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1 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
2 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
3 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore |
Mar 14, 2018 (Therese Pettigrew) - The Phantom Zone is located approximately 1.1 km SW of the Beggs-Currie Showing. The Phantom Zone is a komatiite-hosted nickel showing associated with a shear zone, returning historical grab samples up to 1.8% Ni and 0.2% Cu (AFRI 20000003919). The zone is 75 cm thick, with mineralization of 1-10% pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, and pyrite. The best result from the 2007 prospecting program was 1.27% Ni, 0.216% Cu, 0.385 ppm Pd and 0.227 ppm Pt (AFRI 20000002338).
Rank | Characteristic |
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1 | Sheared |
MonoMap - Geology of Cirrus Lake-Bamoos Lake area, District of Thunder Bay
Publication Number: R043 Scale: Date: 1997
Author: Milne V.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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