SUPERB LAKE PROPERTY
SUPERB LAKE LITHIUM PROJECT: OVERVIEW
The town of Thunder Bay, located about 375 kilometres from Medaro’s Superb Lake Property is the largest city in Northwestern Ontario. It’s the heart of the highly active exploration and mine operations throughout the region.
The town offers a large workforce, mine focused contracting services, and is a transportation hub for Canada with direct access to the USA. There is a large port facility on the St. Lawrence Seaway System which is a principal north-south route from the Upper Midwest to the Gulf of Mexico.
Many junior exploration and mining companies are based in Thunder Bay, and the city is a source of skilled mining labour.
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SUPERB LAKE: HISTORY
The Superb Lake Property is an exploration stage prospect consisting of 8 mining claims totaling approximately 2,187 hectares in the O’ Sullivan Lake / Maun Lake Area.
The nearest town to the property is Nakina situated 45 km to the south. Access is principally via gravel roads leading to forest service roads into the claim blocks.
Historical exploration began with the 1950s’ discovery of lithium along the shores of Superb Lake. It has been explored for gold, nickel and other metals. In 1998 a large bulk sample collected from the pegmatite in an older blast pit by G.M. Stott contained Ta beyond detection limit of 350 ppm, 142 ppm Be, 80 ppm Nb, 1464 ppm Rb, 99 ppm C’s and 56 ppm Sn. A 2003 Ontario Geological Survey investigated pegmatite mineralization and identified a minimum exposed strike length of 16 m in varying widths between from 2.5 m at the shoreline to 3.7 m.
The Property is located to the north along the same fault as the past producing Louisianna Gold Mine (2.4km south). Gold, copper, and nickel has also been discovered along a similar deformation trend.
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SUPERB LAKE: REGION
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ADJACENT AND REGIONAL
EXPLORATIONS AND OPERATIONS
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SUPERB LAKE: GEOLOGY
The pegmatite has spodumene as a principal lithium mineral which occurs as large isolated crystals in a relatively fine-textured groundmass of feldspar, quartz, mica and other minerals, and to a lesser extent as a part of the groundmass itself. The pegmatite exhibits deformation by internal thin shears that are locally anastomosing and by several re-entrants of metasedimentary host rock into the pegmatite along the southern contact. The results of four samples taken from spodumene rich samples indicate lithium oxide (Li2O) values in the range of 1.77 percent (%) to 4.03%
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