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Noront Resources Ltd is a mining company. It is engaged in the exploration, development, and acquisition of properties prospective in base and precious metals, which includes nickel, copper, platinum group metals, precious metals, chromite, and vanadium. The company's developmental project consists of Eagle's Nest nickel-copper-platinum-palladium deposit, deposits of high-grade chromite and copper-zinc volcanic massive sulphide deposits which are part of the company's McFauld's Lake Project. Its assets are located in the area known as the Ring of Fire in the James Bay Lowlands, Ontario.

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Comment by hrockon Apr 04, 2008 7:59pm

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Rock Speculation - Chromite Means PGM!!!

further info onna link between CHromite anna PGM

Just da way I see dat!
Hardrock

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Rock Speculation - Chromite Means PGM!!!

Just da way I see dat!
HardRock

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Eagle 2 and Stillwater Mafic Intrusive Complex

by pw onna da other NOT forum:

"- Further drilling at Eagle Two (Anomaly AT2) continues to trace a Shear Hosted Sulphide ("SHS") zone containing bands of massive sulphide mineralization with visible copper-nickel minerals from the Precambrian rock surface (starting at 10 meters below surface) to 190 meters below surface where the approximately up to 21 meters thick, 75 meters long oval-shaped mineralized zone is within 30 meters of the favourable underlying granodiorite intrusive contact.

- Massive Chromite beds up to 48.4 meters in core thickness at AT2 have been encountered in the near vertical dipping, wide peridodite sill occupying the non-conformity between the underlying granodiorite intrusive to the north and overlying Precambrian volcanic stratigraphy to the south."

The Eagle 2 description in the NR starts to draw some similarities in my mind to the geological settings of a world class PGM mining district - The Stillwater Complex in Montana.

The Stillwater Complex, which hosts two of the largest PGM producing mines in NA, is a Layered Igneous Complex which is composed of a succession of ultramafic to mafic rocks derived from a large complex magma body. The molten mass was sufficiently large and fluid to allow its chemical constituents to crystallize slowly and sequentially, with the heavier mafic base-metal minerals settling more rapidly toward the base of the cooling complex, and PGM-enriched host rock representing one layered sequence.

The layered, mineralized body was pushed by a later ground movement to have turned about 70 degrees to become The Stillwater Complex. Bushveld, the world's biggest PGM producer, with its Bushveld Complex, has a similar geological setting.

The geological model of The Stillwater Complex was a brainchild of the famed geophysicist Terry Crebs, who also initiated the correct theory that helped the early development of Voisey's Bay discovery (pp. 108-109, The Big Score)

This, of course is purely my imagination at this point.

~p