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Record: MDI52A04SE00033

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Copper, Nickel

Secondary Commodities: Gold, Molybdenum, Silver, Palladium, Platinum

Location

Township or Area: Pardee

Latitude: 48° 2' 50.83"    Longitude: -89° 37' 41.29"

UTM Zone: 16    Easting: 304139.85   Northing: 5324916.33    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South

NTS Grid: 52A04SE

Point Location Description: cluster of drill holes

Location Method: Data Compilation

Access Description:

Exploration History

1966-69: Bordun Mining Corporation Ltd carried out mapping, ground geophysics, and drilled 11 DDH totalling 2191.8 m. 2006: Kennecott Canada Exploration Inc. conducted prospecting. 2007: Kennecott conducted prospecting, carried out a helicopter-borne EM and mag geophysical survey, and drilled 3 DDH totalling 579 m.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Southern

Formation Group: Animikie Group

Geological Age: Paleoproterozoic  

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Aug 07, 2012 (A Wilson) - The property is underlain by the southwesterly extension of the southern limb of the Crystal Lake gabbro and the southwestern extension of the olivine diabase dikes exposed at the western end of Crystal Lake.

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Aug 07, 2012 (A Wilson) - A grab sample collected by Bordun Mining Corporation assayed 0.05% Cu and 0.05% Ni. In 1966 and 1967, a total of 7191 ft. of exploratory diamond drilling was performed on the property from eleven vertical holes. Holes 4, 5, 6, and 8 intersected a copper-nickel sulphide zone in claim TB. 116201 with minimum dimensions 1,014 ft. long in direction east northeast with an average depth of 294 ft. and unknown width. Within this zone is a more concentrated area of copper-nickel sulphides measuring 704 ft. long, averaging 34 ft. in depth and unknown width. From numerous assay values, the zone averages 0.429% copper and 0.224% nickel per ton. The best assay returns for copper and nickel respectively are as follows: hole 12A : 520-525 ft. Cu 0.54%, Ni 0.25%; hole 13 360-370 ft., Cu, 0.33% Ni, 0.16%; 410-450 ft., 0.40% Cu, 0.17% Ni; 530-540 ft., 0.26% Cu 0.13% Ni; hole 14, 565-575 ft., 0.36% Cu, 0.17% Cu.

Mar 01, 2018 (Therese Pettigrew) - Kennecott’s 2007 drillhole DDH 07AR0001 intersected 22.6 m grading 0.48% Cu and 0.21% Ni from 16.4 m depth. The disseminated mineralization occurs as 1-4% combined pyrrhotite/chalcopyrite, with highest grade over 0.4 m with ~6% interstitial pyrrhotite/chalcopyrite mineralization. DDH 07AR0002 intersected 32.85 m grading 0.27% Cu and 0.12% Ni, from 5.8 m depth. Mineralization occurs as 2% disseminated pyrrhotite/chalcopyrite (AFRI 20000003761).

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

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

Map - Devon and Pardee townships and Stuart Location, Thunder Bay District

Publication Number: M2207 Scale: 1:31,680    Date: 1970

Author: Geul J.J.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs

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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