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Record: MDI42H07SE00010

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Shell 76-4 - 1976
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 1991-Feb-25
Date Last Modified 2022-Oct-11
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Copper

Secondary Commodities: Gold



Location

Township or Area: Potter

Latitude: 49° 20' 52.49"    Longitude: -80° 41' 22.87"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 522538.572   Northing: 5466179.276    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Timmins

NTS Grid: 42H07SE

Point Location Description: Drill collar at L10E 20 m south on P.393290

Location Method: Based on Assessment

Access Description: The area is easily accessible by driving north from highway 574 along a series of Abitibi Paper Company roads.



Exploration History

1975-76: Shell Canada Ltd. - airborne geophysics, ground geophysics, 1 ddh (139 m). 1995: Noranda Exploration Co. Ltd. - ground geophysics, mapping, geochemistry.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
T-3763, 2.16409 42H07SE0001 42H07SE0001
T-3763, 2.17772 42H07SE0003 42H07SE0003

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Opatica

Terrane: Opatica

Geological Age: Archean  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Gneiss-Unsubdivided 1 Biotite Host

Lithology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Diamond drilling intersected a sequence of quartz-feldspar-biotite gneiss and narrow interbeds of felsic tuff. All units are cross cut by narrow pegmatite and granitic dikes.




Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1ChalcopyriteEconomicOre
1PyrrhotiteEconomicGangue
2PyriteEconomicGangue

Mineralization Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - The best assay returned 0.31% Cu over 0.30 m. The best Au assay returned0.003 oz/t Au over1.19 m.



Mineral Record Details

References

File - Resident Geologist files T-3100

Publication Number: Date:

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: Timmins RGP office


Map - Burntbush River sheet, District of Cochrane

Publication Number: P0373 Scale: 1:126,720    Date: 1997

Author: Bennett G., Brown D.D., George P.T.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


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