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Record: MDI52F10SE00047

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Nickel, Copper

Secondary Commodities: Cobalt

Location

Township or Area: Turtlepond Lake Area

Latitude: 49° 30' 40.89"    Longitude: -92° 43' 2.87"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 520453   Northing: 5484342    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Kenora

NTS Grid: 52F10SE

Point Location Description: General

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: The Glatz occurrcnce is located in the Turtlepond Lake area, approximately 30km south of the city of Dryden, 1.5km west of Highway 812, and north of Pincher Lake. (MP147, ROA 1989, p.24)

Exploration History

1965: A. Glatz found some disseminated sulphides which returned low nickel and copper values. 1966: Victoria Algoma Mineral Company Ltd. optioned the property from A. Glatz and carried out a VLF-EM survey over the whole property and a magnetic survey over parts of it, and drilled 4 DDH. The VLF-EM survey outlined seven conductors with no coincident magnetic anomalies. A high-grade nickel-copper occurrence was subsequently found by A. Glatz, who opened up trenches. 1970: Lynx-Canada Explorations Ltd. optioned the property from A. Glatz, and opened up seven more trenches, and stripped four areas over the most intense magnetic anomalies detected by the previous magnetic survey, over a strike length of 700 m. 1987: St. Joe Canada Inc. staked the property and conducted geological mapping. 1988: The airborne electromagnetic and magnetic survey flown for the Ontario Geological Survey in 1988. 1999 & 2002: Messrs. Glatz and Riives re-staked the property and conducted prospecting and sampling. 2007: Canadian Arrow Mines Ltd. acquired a 100% interest in the Glatz Property and conducted prospecting and sampling. 2008: Canadian Arrow Mines Ltd. conducted VTEM, IP, resistivity, and magnetic geophysical surveys. 2009: Canadian Arrow drilled 6 DDH totalling 1055.4 m.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Wabigoon

Geological Age: Archean  

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Mar 09, 2010 (J Bongfelt) - The occurrence is underlain by gabbroic rocks peripheral to the Dore lobe of the Atikwa Batholith. While Map 2443 (Blackburn, Beard and Rivett 1981) indicates the area is hosted within mafic metavolcanic rocks of the Manitou Lakes greenstone belt, this does not correlate with what is observed on the property. The property lies in an area that has never been mapped in detail. The rocks range in composition from quartz gabbro, leucogabbro, gabbro to melagabbro and contains sulphides from trace to semi-massive concentrations. The sulphides occur as disseminations and pods up to centimetres in size. The author believes that this property may represent an extension of the Emmons-Prig Cu-Ni-PGE occurrences located 5 km to the north. These lithologies were recommended by the author (Hinz and Ravnaas 1999) for further exploration.

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Mar 09, 2010 (J Bongfelt) - In 1965, A. Glatz discovered a copper-nickel mineralization; initial grab samples returned values of 0.77% Cu and 0.21 % Ni. In 1970, sampling by Lynx Canada yielded values up to 1.95% Ni and 0.45% Cu, and 0.55% Ni and 1.6% Cu. In 2001, a total of 12 samples were taken from the various trenches at the Glatz occurrence. Sulphide mineralization ranged from trace to semi-massive and included pyrite, chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite and possible bornite. None of the samples submitted by the author (OFR6079) yielded platinum or palladium values. Nickel values ranged from 0.13% to 1.01% and copper from 0.09% to 0.36%. These values were obtained from the trenches over a strike length of approximately 700 m (OFR6079, p.30). In 2007, Canadian Arrow Mines Ltd. conducted a surface grab sampling program which produced the following results: 1.28% Ni, 0.26% Cu re Glatz Trench 3; 0.99% Ni, 0.18% Cu re Glatz Trench 3; 0.39% Ni, 4.06% Cu re Trench 4 (Canadian Arrow Mines Ltd. website).

Nov 23, 2017 (Therese Pettigrew) - Disseminated pyrite, pyrrhotite, and chalcopyrite occur in shear zones along and near the contact of andesite and diorite. Patches of sulphides occur over 457.2 m with a width of 30.5 m. The best assays returned 0.77% Cu and 0.21% Ni (Shklanka, 1969). Of the 6 holes drilled by Canadian Arrow in 2009, only 1 intersected anomalous mineralization. DDH GZ-09-2 encountered 0.34% Ni, 0.16% Cu and 0.02% Co over 5.9 m from 45.0-50.9 m (AFRI 20000007674).

Mineral Record Details

References

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

Publication Number: MDC012 Page: 164  Date: 1969

Author: Shklanka R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Article - Kenora Resident Geologist's District - 1989

Publication Number: MP147.002 Page: 24-25  Date: 1997

Author: Blackburn C.E., Hailstone M.H., Delisle P.C., Storey C.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Mono - Report of Activities 2001, Resident Geologist Program, Red Lake Regional Resident Geologist Report: Red Lake and Kenora Districts

Publication Number: OFR6079 Page: 30  Date: 2002

Author: Lichtblau A.F., Hinz P., Ravnaas C., Storey C.C., Kosloski L., Raoul A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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