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Record: MDI52A04SE00032

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Seemar - 1967, N. Pylychuck - 1979
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 1979-Aug-08
Date Last Modified 2022-Mar-02
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Copper, Nickel



Location

Township or Area: Devon, Pardee

Latitude: 48° 2' 16.33"    Longitude: -89° 42' 39.05"

UTM Zone: 16    Easting: 297939   Northing: 5324065    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South

NTS Grid: 52A04SE

Point Location Description: AMIS Shaft location

Location Method: Conversion from MDI



Exploration History

1950: G. Petrie sank a 15.2 m shaft. 1966: Seemar Mines Ltd. drilled 2 DDH totalling 156.7 m. 1967: Hollinger Consolidated Gold Mines Ltd. completed a geophysical program.


Geology

Province: Southern

Formation Group: Animikie Group

Geological Age: Paleoproterozoic  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Mudstone 1 Shale Adjacent
Diabase 2 Diabase Dyke Host

Mineralization

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

Mineralization Comments

Mar 02, 2018 (Therese Pettigrew) - Chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite in a zone along the south contact of a diabase dyke with Rove shale (Shklanka, 1969). The zone is reported to be about 1.5 m. The best assays showed 0.025% Cu and 0.016% Ni (Geul, 1970).



Mineral Record Details

References

Mono - Copper, nickel, lead and zinc deposits of Ontario

Publication Number: MDC012 Scale:     Date: 1969

Author: Shklanka R.

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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