THOMPSON EAST – BRYCE BAY: NI-CU-CO-PGE PROJECT
Figure 1: Conductor zones 15, 16, 17 and 18.
Figure 2: Conductor zone 23 with selected till Ni concentrations.
Project areas and exploration The project areas are located eight to 30 kilometres east of Thompson and are held in two blocks referred to as Bryce Bay, located north of Bryce Bay, and Thompson-East claims, which are directly east of Thompson. A total of 14 claims ranging in size from 40 to 208 hectares have been staked and are undergoing exploration. Access to the prospect area can be by fourwheel-drive truck, all-terrain vehicle, boat and motor or snowmobile. Anglo American conducted exploration in the early 2000s in the Grass River and Thompson–East area. This included an airborne ‘spectrum’ (magnetic, electromagnetic, radiometric and terrain) survey, which delineated 27 EM conductor zones that warranted followup ground work. Follow-up exploration included ground geophysical surveys and diamond drilled boreholes within selected conductor zones. Six of the highest rated conductor zones, some with multiple drill targets, are all on claims staked by G. Thorne (Norcangeo).
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Figure 3: Massive sulphide – Bryce Bay claim.
To advance exploration and further
zone target is located on MB Claim
delineate targets, about 250 boreholes
MB 11600 (Zone 18). Historical drilling
have been augered and sampled as
indicates that the area of the claims is
part of till geochemistry exploration on
underlain by the Ospwagon Sediments,
the claims covering the TNB conductor
which include the Pipe Formation. The
zones and Bryce Bay claims. Three
Pipe Formation is principle host to
claim areas/conductor zones are of
the rich magmatic nickel and copper
particular interest based on ground
deposits of the TNB. The location and
geophysics, diamond drilled cored
highly rated geophysical anomaly
boreholes and rock and till assay
make these zones excellent targets
values and are profiled below.
for additional ground geophysics and
Conductor zones 15, 16, 17 and 18 Four claims (MB 12046, MB12048,
drilling.
Conductor zone 23
MB11594, MB11600) were recently
This conductor zone located about
staked (April and September 2021)
eight kilometres south and on strike
covering all or most of these four
with conductor zones 15 to 18 and
conductor zones. These conductors
highly rated conductor zone 20 (also
are located about six kilometres
recently staked by the writer) has three
directly east of the Thompson T1 and
drill targets identified by the airborne
T3 mines and about one kilometre
spectrum survey and follow-up ground
east of the Thompson mines settling
geophysics. Two cored boreholes on
ponds. Two high-grade conductors
the property intersect what is believed
located in conductor zone 15 (Figure
to be the Pipe Formation. High Ni
1) were identified by the airborne
values, 131.5 and 90.8 ppm (Figure
spectrum survey and to the best of the
2) have been determined by assays
writer’s knowledge have not undergone
for till samples collected from two
any additional ground geophysics or
of the boreholes augered on claim
drilling. Another highly rated conductor
(MB 11598), which overlies one of the
