Cleaver Douglas................
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Oct 17, 2008 11:41AM
The company is exploring for nickel deposits on its Langmuir property near Timmins, Ontario; for nickel-gold-copper on its Cleaver and Douglas properties; and for molybdenum and rare earth elements at recently acquired Desrosiers property.
I wonder what's happening on these properties? Taken from our August 27 2007 shareholder update.
New Claim Acquisitions
FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING INFORMATION RELATING TO THE PROPERTIES, THE COMPANY IS RELYING ON INFORMATION PROVIDED TO IT BY THE VARIOUS PARTIES. ALL INFORMATION PERTAINING TO THE PROPERTIES WAS DERIVED FROM HISTORICAL GEOLOGICAL REPORTS AND DO NOT PRESENTLY CONFORM TO THE STANDARDS AS OUTLINED IN NATIONAL INSTRUMENT 43-101.
Recently the Company has acquired the rights to two new claim groups in the vicinity of Timmins, Ontario.
The properties are located in the Abitibi greenstone belt of the Abitibi Subprovince in the Superior Province. The geology of the area consists of Archean supracrustal and plutonic rocks that are partially overlain by Proterozoic sedimentary rocks and intruded by late Proterozoic diabase dikes. Archean metavolcanic and metasedimentary rocks are subdivided into 4 distinct assemblages, a lower calc-alkalic assemblage; a magnesium-rich tholeiitic basalt and komatiite assemblage; an assemblage of iron-rich tholeiitic basalt; and an upper calc-alkalic assemblage that are intruded by ultramafic to felsic plutonic rocks. Numerous north-trending diabase dikes of the Matachewan swarm and a few east-northeast trending diabase dikes of the Proterozoic Abitibi swarm intrude the metavolcanic and plutonic rocks. In parts of Cleaver townships, Proterozoic sedimentary rocks of the Gowganda Formation overlie the Archean bedrock.
Ultramafic intrusive rocks consist of peridotite and pyroxenite plugs that intrude the lower and upper calc-alkalic assemblages, respectively. Large granodiorite intrusions are located in Cleaver and McNeil townships. Late lamprophyre and mafic to felsic syenite dikes intrude the metavolcanic rocks.
Regional metamorphism ranges from sub-greenschist to greenschist facies, which is overprinted by amphibolite facies contact metamorphic aureoles adjacent to the intrusions in the area. Narrow zones of carbonate alteration occur locally along fractures in the iron-rich basalt assemblage and appear to be associated with mafic to felsic syenite dikes and quartz veins.
Cleaver Property
The Cleaver Property consists of 13 mining claims containing 192 mining claim units and is located in the northeastern portion of Cleaver Township, the southeastern portion of Fallon Township, the southwestern portion of Fasken Township and the northwestern portion of McNeil Township. The property is accessed by an all weather gravel logging road approximately 46.75km south of Highway 101 at South Porcupine, Ontario.
The western portion of the property is underlain by felsic metavolcanics and metasediments, which are then overlain by peridotitic komatiites. Numerous airborne electromagnetic anomalies are located at or near the komatiite lower contact. This unit has not been explored for either base metal or nickel mineralization. The eastern portion of the property is underlain by felsic metavolcanics with numerous airborne electromagnetic anomalies and mafic metavolcanics. Previous exploration activities utilizing Reverse Circulation Drilling (RCD) within the central portion of the property returned values in the overburden ranging from 0 ppm up to 3,110 ppm (0.30%) of copper and from 0 ppb up to 521,460 ppb (15.209 oz/t) gold. The known Flinsky copper-zinc showing is located approximately 2.3km southwest of the property.
To view Figure 7: Location Map and Generalized Geology of the Cleaver Property, please visit the following link: http://www.ccnmatthews.com/docs/ism0...
Figure 7 illustrates the general geology of the Cleaver Property and the location of airborne electromagnetic anomalies and the RCD drill holes with copper (ppm) and gold (ppb) assay results from the Resident Geologist Assessment Files.
Douglas Property
The Douglas Property consists of 1 mining claim containing 16 mining claim units and is located in the southeast corner of Douglas Township, Porcupine Mining Division, Ontario. The property is accessed by an all weather gravel logging road approximately 43.97km south of Highway 101 at South Porcupine, Ontario, and is approximately 4.1km west of the Cleaver Property.
Three known copper showings consisting of disseminated chalcopyrite in quartz carbonate veining occur within a strongly foliated mafic metavolcanics in the west central portion of the property.
Minor amount of molybdenite along fracture surfaces within quartz veins intruding a porphyritic granodiorite occurs 1.3km to the northwest of the property. The former Texmont Nickel Mine is located approximately 9.6km to the west-southwest of the Douglas Property.
To view Figure 8: Location Map and Generalized Geology of the Douglas Property, please visit the following link: http://www.ccnmatthews.com/docs/ism0...
Figure 8 illustrates the general geology, airborne electromagnetic anomalies and known copper mineralization within the Douglas Property and surrounding area.
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