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| Record Name(s) | Crystal Lake Project - 2015, O. Isotalo - 1979, Mrs. T. Isotalo - 1979 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Prospect |
| Date Created | 1979-Aug-03 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Feb-18 |
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Primary Commodities: Copper, Nickel
Secondary Commodities: Palladium
Township or Area: Pardee
Latitude: 48° 5' 10.66" Longitude: -89° 41' 6.3"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 300046.85 Northing: 5329379.34 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid: 52A04SE
Point Location Description: Precise
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: Access to the property was achieved using the Great Lakes Nickel road off of highway 61 then by using historic bush trails that were pushed in by the exploration companies who worked on the property in the past. These trails needed to be touched up to remove overgrowth but no major work was required.
1966-1968: Bordun Mining Corporation drilled 11 diamond drill holes totaling 2,192 m, in the Start Location, directly west of Crystal Lake and Lenore Lake.1968-1969: I.C. Christopher drilled 3 diamond drill holes totaling 773 m, in the Stuart Location, immediately west of Bordun’s claims. 1987:, a 380 line km Aerodat helicopter magnetics and EM airborne survey was flown under contract for Platinum Exploration Canada Inc. 1998: Falconbridge acquires an airborne Dighem electro-magnetic and magnetic survey from Geoterrex-Dighem over a large area, some of which includes minor parts of the Arrow property. 1999: Falconbridge drills PR99-03 at a depth of 298 m, 640 m south of the Arrow property, on their grid PR-03 in the Stuart Location. 2002: McVicar Minerals Ltd and BHP Billiton acquire from Fugro Airborne Surveys a MEGATEM electro-magnetic survey in the Pardee and Crook townships, over an area which includes a minor part of the current Arrow property in the Stuart Location. 2011: Rio Tinto Exploration Canada Inc. (RTECI) entered into an option agreement with Great Lakes Nickel (GLN) to acquire the GLN property in Pardee Township. 2014: Rio Tinto Exploration Canada Inc. drilled 5 exploration holes and followed up with DHEM surveys and a complete characterisation assay package. 2015: Assessment report for 3 ddh holes with associated downhole geophysics submitted though satellite imagery indicates over 50 holes drilled over the project area.
Province: Superior
Geological Age: Archean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Troctolite | 1 | Trocolite | Host |
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| Gabbro | 2 | Adjacent | ||
| Terrigenous-Clastic-Unsubdivided | 3 | Rove Shales And Sandstones | ||
| Diabase | 4 | Diabase | Hanging Wall |
| 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 | Ilmenite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore |
Oct 17, 2016 (Andrew Tims) - Grey, fine-grained, strongly hornfelsed and partially melted sediment cut by Cpy rich sulphide veins with weight assay of 0.35% Ni and 1.398 ppm combined PGE.
Compend - Annual report of Resident Geologists Section, Geological Branch, 1968, part 1
Publication Number: MP023 Scale: Date: 1969
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Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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MonoMap - Geology of Devon and Pardee townships and the Stuart Location, District of Thunder Bay
Publication Number: R087 Scale: Date: 1970
Author: Geul J.J.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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Map - Geological series, Precambrian geology, Keweenawan intrusive rocks in the Crystal Lake-Pigeon River area
Publication Number: P3139 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1990
Author: Smith A.R., Sutcliffe R.H.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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