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Record: MDI42L06NE00009

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s)	Polpond - 1959
Related Record Type	Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status	Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created	1980-Apr-25
Date Last Modified	2023-Aug-03
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Copper, Nickel

Location

Township or Area: O Sullivan Lake Area

Latitude: 50° 28' 27.17" Longitude: -87° 2' 20.48"

UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 497231 Northing: 5591359 UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay North

NTS Grid: 42L06NE

Point Location Description: Location of DDH 26D-1 on map in Assessment report 42L06NE0057

Location Method: Data Compilation

Exploration History

1959: Polpond Mining Company drilled 3 DDH totalling 221.9 m. 1983: Syngold Exploration Inc. carried out mapping and sampling.

Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number	Online Assessment File Identifier	Online Assessment File Directory
16	42L06NE0057	42L06NE0057
2.6868	42L06NE0018	42L06NE0018

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Wabigoon

Terrane: Eastern Wabigoon

Belt: Onaman-Tashota

Geological Age: Archean

Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type	Rank	Composition	Texture	Relationship
Terrigenous-Clastic-Unsubdivided	1	Graphitic		Host

Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank	Mineral Name	Class	Economic Mineral Type
1	Pyrrhotite	Economic	Ore
2	Chalcopyrite	Economic	Ore
3	Pyrite	Economic	Ore

Mineralization Comments

Dec 17, 2020 (Therese Pettigrew) - DDH 26D-1 returned up to 0.15% Cu and 0.05% Ni from a mineralized fracture with 20% pyrrhotite with a few specks of chalcopyrite and trace pyrite in graphitic metasediments (Assessment report 42L06NE0057).

Mineral Record Details

References

Folio - O'Sullivan Lake area, District of Thunder Bay

Publication Number: GDIF017 Date: 1997

Author: Thunder Bay RGO

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

File - Resident Geologist Mineral Deposit Files

Publication Number: Min Dep Date: 1996

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Publisher Name:

Location: Thunder Bay RGP

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