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| Record Name(s) | Mattagami Lake DDH K-H-78-10 - 1978 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1991-Mar-05 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Nov-01 |
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Primary Commodities: Copper, Nickel
Secondary Commodities: Zinc
Township or Area: Casselman
Latitude: 49° 6' 4.41" Longitude: -82° 17' 56.2"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 405185.737 Northing: 5439521.151 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 42G01SW
Point Location Description: Drill collar at 16+00S/1+00W on Mattagami grid on former claim P.394327
Location Method: Based on Assessment
Access Description: The site is accessible by driving south from Kapuskasing along the Chain of Lakes road for approximately 32 km and then south along disused winter access roads for approximately 1.5 km. The drill collar is located in the swamp east of the road.
1977-78: Mattagami Lake Mines Limited - ground geophysics, 1 ddh (437 ft). 1988: McKinnon Prospecting - airborne geophysics.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| T-1824, 11 | 42G01NW0017 | 42G01NW0017 |
Province: Kapuskasing Structural Zone
Geological Age: Neoarchean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Terrigenous-Clastic-Unsubdivided | 1 | Greywacke | Host |
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| Mafic Tuff | 2 | Tuff | Near | |
| Claystone | 3 | Argillite | Near |
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Diamond drilling intersected bands of semi-massive pyrrhotite interbedded with greywacke and mafic tuff. The sulphide rich bands are located close to the base of a metamorphosed oxide facies iron formation.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Magnetite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 3 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue |
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Diamond drillining intersected 0.9 ft of semi-massive pyrrhotite that returned an assay of 6050 ppm Ni and 2330 ppm Cu. A 3.5 ft section of interbedded greywacke and mafic tuff also returned an assay of 3330 ppm Cu.
File - Resident Geologist file T-3180
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Location: Timmins RGP office
Map - Kapuskasing sheet, districts of Cochrane and Algoma, geological compilation series
Publication Number: P0398 Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1997
Author: Bennett G., Brown D.D., George P.T., Leahy E.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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Part - Geology of the Saganash Lake-Wakusimi River area
Publication Number: ARV69-03 Page: 15-17 Date: 1997
Author: McMurchy R.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Saganash Lake area, District of Cochrane, Ontario
Publication Number: M1960A Scale: 1:63,360 Date: 1997
Author: McMurchy R.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Operation Kapuskasing
Publication Number: MP010 Date: 1967
Author: Bennett G., Brown D.D., George P.T., Leahy E.J., Guillet G.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
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