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| Record Name(s) | Shell Resources DDH 7604-77-7 - 1977 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Discretionary Occurrence |
| Date Created | 2002-Jan-21 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Nov-01 |
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Primary Commodities: Zinc, Nickel, Copper
Township or Area: Blount
Latitude: 49° 14' 57.1" Longitude: -80° 56' 56.55"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 503708.47 Northing: 5455159.32 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 42H02NW
Point Location Description: Drill collar on Lot 11 Con 6
Location Method: Based on Assessment
Access Description: The site is accessible by driving north from highway 11via a series of concession and forestry roads just east of the crossing with the Little Abitibi River.
1977: Shell Canada Ltd. - 1 ddh (90.89 m).
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| T-3101/donation |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Opatica
Geological Age: Archean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Gneiss-Unsubdivided | 1 | Quartz-Feldspar-Biotite | Hanging Wall |
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| Pegmatite | 2 | Hanging Wall | ||
| Intermediate Tuff | 3 | Graphitic Tuff | Host | |
| Gneiss-Unsubdivided | 4 | Footwall |
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Diamond drilling intersected a sequence of quartz-feldspar-biotite gneiss and pink and white pegmatite. The conductive horizon was interpreted as a graphitic volcanic tuff.
| 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 | Gangue |
Jan 27, 2015 (A Wilson) - A 3 m section of drill core was analyzed by Shell. The best assay returned 0.15% Zn, 0.02% Cu and 0.03% Ni over 0.92 m in graphitic tuff.
Core - Timmins Drill Core Library - TI0236
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File - Resident Geologist files T-3101
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Location: Timmins RGP office
Map - Cochrane sheet, District of Cochrane, geological compilation series
Publication Number: P0372 Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1997
Author: Bennett G., Brown D.D., George P.T.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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