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Record: MDI52F09SE00032

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Copper, Nickel

Location

Township or Area: Revell

Latitude: 49° 35' 15.59"    Longitude: -92° 13' 13.43"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 556348   Northing: 5493079    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Kenora

NTS Grid: 52F09SE

Point Location Description: From map in AFRI 52F09SE8298

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: Revell Tp.; 2.0 kilometres west of Tache and 300 metres south of the C.P.R. track.

Exploration History

1966: G.L. Pidgeon discovered the showing and conducted trenching. 1967: Maverick Mines and Oils drilled 442 m of DD in 8 holes. 1991: The showing was staked by R. Fairservice. 1992: Champion Bear Resources Ltd. optioned the property and conducted ground magnetometer and VLF-EM surveys. 1993: Champion Bear conducted prospecting and sampling. 1994: Champion Bear conducted soil sampling. 1999: R. Fairservice conducted sampling. 2000: R. Fairservice conducted a soil sampling program. 2001: R. Fairservice conducted a soil sampling program.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Wabigoon

Terrane: Western Wabigoon

Belt: Eagle-Wabigoon-Manitou

Geological Age: Precambrian  

Lithology

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Jan 18, 2018 (Q Unknown) - Grade - best assays: 10 ft of 0.77% Cu, 0.64% Ni and 12 ft of 0.90% Cu, 0.68% Ni. Chalcopyrite and nickeliferous pyrrhotite occurs as disseminations in a hornblende diorite. The diorite containing the mineralization is separated from a very feldspathic phase by a thin band of metavolcanics. Sulphides occur in two parallel zones each about 3-4.5 metres wide and separated by about 5.0 metres of very weakly mineralized diorite. The zone has been traced for 122 metres but is hidden by swamp to the east. The best assays were obtained from No. 2 hole which intersected 3.0 metres of 0.77% Cu and 0.64% Ni, and 3.6 metres of 0.90% Cu and 0.68% Ni (Shklanka, 1969). Hornblende diorite in the vicinity of Tache occurs as relatively narrow zones between mafic metavolcanic rocks and a granodiorite batholith At the property a darker phase of the diorite is separated from a very feldspathic phase by a thin band of metavolcanics. The disseminated chalcopyrite and nickeliferous pyrrhotite is in the darker phase. Six of eight holes drilled in 1967 by Maverick Mines and Oils intersected the sulphides, which are confined to either a single zone or a series of lenses within the diorite. The zone appears to be about 3 - 4.5 metres wide and has a length of at least 122 metres and reportedly contains in excess of one percent combined copper and nickel. The drill results are inconclusive and further work is desirable (Davies, 1968).

Mineral Record Details

References

Part - Geology of the Dyment area

Publication Number: ARV69-06 Scale:     Date: 1997

Author: Satterly J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Article - Kenora District

Publication Number: MP016.001 Scale:     Date: 1997

Author: Davies J.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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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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