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| Record Name(s) | Shell Resources DDH 7604-66-10 - 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-Oct-11 |
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Primary Commodities: Copper
Secondary Commodities: Nickel, Zinc
Township or Area: Blount
Latitude: 49° 13' 27.11" Longitude: -80° 59' 13.85"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 500933.46 Northing: 5452379.33 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 42H02NW
Point Location Description: Drill collar in lot 17 con 4
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 Resources Ltd. - 1 ddh (127.19 m).
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 | Host | ||
| Oxide Ironstone | 3 | Oxide-Facies | Hanging Wall |
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Diamond drilling intersected a sequence of quartz-feldspar-biotite+/-hornblende gneiss and pegmatite. Oxide and sulphide facies iron formation were intersected at 28 - 30 m. This unit returned slightly anomalous copper and zinc values. The highest copper values were returned from a narrow granite pegmatite lying below the iron formation.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue |
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - A 20 cm section of pegmatite returned an assay of 0.10% Cu, 0.02% Zn and 0.02% Ni.
| Rank | Characteristic |
|---|---|
| 1 | Disseminated |
Core - Timmins Drill Core Library - TI0239
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Location: Timmins RGO
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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