The 100% Benton owned, Rim Property is located approximately 70km west of Hopedale, Labrador. The property comprises four mineral licenses consisting of 616 claim units. Exploration of the Rim property was implemented to determine the potential for mineralization similar to the Voisey’s Bay discovery 100km north of Rim. Voisey’s Bay is located in troctolitic rocks of the Nain Plutonic Suite (NPS) hosted by the Tasiuyak Gneiss. The Rim property is located along the southern boundary of the NPS. The Rim project is located immediately east of Donner Metals South Voisey’s Bay project.
The Nain and Churchill Provinces are two of the five geological units that constitute Labrador. The Rim property incorporates approximately 3km of ground covering the main Suture Zone forming the structural contact between the Nain and Churchill geological provinces. This major structural contact represents the Circum-Superior Boundary Zone believed by many nickel experts to be a fundamental control on the emplacement of the Voisey’s Bay deposit. The MegaTEM survey, completed by Falconbridge (2003), as well as the VTEM survey completed by Benton (2008), outline more than a 5 km long series of buried predominately E-W trending long time constant TEM anomalies in the southwest part of the property. This conductive trend strikes directly into the mapped outline of the Suture Zone and may represent magmatic sulphides intruded along an E-W trending structural conduit cutting through the Suture Zone similar to the emplacement of the Voisey’s Bay deposit.
Benton plans to advance this project using its structural and geophysical similarity to Voisey’s Bay as a model. Benton field personnel hope to ground truth the airborne EM anomalies using ground geophysics during the 2010 field program.
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