HARRISON
LAKE PROJECT
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British
Columbia, Canada
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Mineral
Deposit Type
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Nickel-Cobalt-Platinum
Group Elements
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Search for Platinum/Palladium/Nickel Metals
Intensifies in Harrison Lake Region
One of British Columbia’s most active staking
areas in 2000-2001 is situated on the east side
of Harrison Lake, about 60 miles east of Vancouver.
Numerous parties have now taken up claims in a
30 mile long, crescent-shaped belt following a
suite of rocks prospective for nickel as well as
platinum group element (PGE) mineralization.
The Giant Mascot Mine at the eastern end of the
belt once produced nickel ore from chimney-shaped
structures. What is not widely known is that significant
platinum and palladium values were found in samples
from this ore.. Minvita Enterprises Ltd. owns a
key property within this belt.
Click on the map for an enlarged version of the Harrison
Lake Nickel-PGE Belt Location Map
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History
and Property Status
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The Andy 1-20 claims were acquired by staking and are 100%
owned by Minvita. A soil geochemical sampling program
conducted by Minvita in 1997 over a small portion of
the property outlined an intense nickel-arsenic anomaly
650 metres long (2,100+ feet), open to extension to the
southeast. Nickel values in this survey were among the
highest geochemical results recorded in the region, peaking
at 5,000+ ppm. The association of arsenic with nickel
is significant, because arsenic often accompanies platinum
group elements. Platinum group elements were not analyzed
for at the time.
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Reconnaissance
Geochemistry map
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The Cogburn property of Leader Mining International (“LMN” -
CDNX) is situated about a mile east of the Andy claims,
along the same belt of ultrabasic rocks. Leader has commenced
a surface program to assess the nickel and PGE potential
of the property. Government assessment reports show that
1970’s geochemical sampling of this property established
very wide-spread anomalous nickel values. The property
was also drilled but detailed records are not available:
certain summary accounts indicate this drilling indicated
a very large tonnage, low-grade nickel deposit.
On July 23, 2001 Leader Mining announced that it had
identified geochemically significant amounts of platinum
group metals in recent samples from the Cogburn property.
Teuton
Resources Corp. owns the Roman claims, located
between Minvita’s Andy claims and Leader’s
Cogburn property. Work done in the 1970’s and
1980’s shows highly anomalous levels of nickel
and cobalt in soil and stream sediment geochemical
samples from the Roman property.
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Minvita Enterprises Ltd. plans a July-August 2001 soil sampling
program to define and extend the soil geochemical anomalies
discovered in 1987. Favourable results will be followed
by geophysics and diamond drilling of selected targets.
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