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MOUNTAIN of IRON, and vanadium & gold. The above/right photo was taken of a trench where a grab sample yielded a 2mm visible mottled gold leaf from a sedimentary section in the Clear Hills iron ores.![]()
HISTORY of the BAD HEART FORMATIONWe prospected Clear Hills and Peace River country for many years and Arriba was instrumental in assembling the mineral land package that became Ironstone Resources Ltd. I am an investor and first President of Ironstone. Here are some of the historical facts about the discovery of the Bad Heart Formation and Clear Hills iron ores. |
Road to Notikewin Tower,upper ironstone outcrop in Rambling Creek,tower at TUL airstrip,helicopter reconnaissance, |
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TUL Petroleum's (Jim Stapleton) Peace Diamond Project reconned Rambling Creek and Notikewin Hill with R. Blusson of Dentonia in 1998. We mapped some of locations of iron outcrops while testing the stream for heavies, gold and diamonds. The iron beds are 7-9 meters thick. Ironstone Resources is presently Operator of the Clear Hills Project. At Ironstone, we solved the problems previous companies had drilling the bentonitic swelling clays overlaying the Bad Heart iron. Ironstone carried out a mineral measuring program to prove up as much of the resource-base as possible during the Winter 2008 Drilling Program. This program was successful and results should be on www.ironstoneresources.com website. Ironstone's coring program proved that the drill programs carried out in the 60s were accurate, although not current as 43-101-standard reports; the iron ores were described reliably. The Clear Hills iron ore "B" deposit outcrops on Rambling Creek as a 20 foot bank, an exposure near the northeast extent of the iron, being the surface mineable billion-ton body. Here are photos from our 7 years of reconnaissance, sampling and conducting geophysical work in the 90s in the Clear Hills of Alberta north of Grande Prairie. |
The Clear Hills and the Bad Heart iron ores have potential for recovery of gold. A reported G10 DIM indicates a probablility that the area harbours a diamond-bearing host. (The angularity of the grain is not known to us.) Two diamonds were recovered to the south at the Worsley outcrop. Recent studies dating the Bad Heart Formation and an evaluation of the ore's Rare Earth Elements resulted in a positive assessment of the 1.24 billion-ton reserve of iron, gold and vanadium. |
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Cartoon showing report of field trip |
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Field Notes - TUL Petroleums Ltd.
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RC-100-98 fine sediments screened GPS- |
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CLEAR HILLS IRON ORE DEPOSIT/Bad Heart FormationClear Hills Iron Ore Deposit, Peace River Country, Alberta, Canada. The Clear Hills are uplands that extend from northwest of Grimshaw, Alberta, to the BC border. These rolling hills reach elevations of 3000-3500 ft ASL. The area is remote but accessible by oil industry roads and TUL airstrip on Notikewin Hill. (shown above) The Clear Hills Iron Ore Deposit is one of the largest iron ore deposits in the world. Clear Hills Iron Ore Deposit occurs in the Bad Heart Formation that dates 85-88 Ma. Table of Geological Formations History: The history of the Clear Hills Iron Ore Deposit and associated information can be found in files we donated to the Ghallagar Geological Library at the University of Calgary. They have drill logs, aero mag surveys and isopach maps. Diamonds and rumors of gold in the Peace River Country, and in the Clear Hills around Fairview, were substantiated in the 80s. Also, diamonds in the iron ores. Blocks of iron lands "A" "B" "C" were designated and studied in the 50s and 60s. About 240 core holes were drilled in and around north half Twp 90, Rge 5 W6M near Rambling Creek and in the Worsley area. An ore reserve of 1.24 Billion tons was calculated and later reviewed by a number of geologists and engineering firms. Assessment: TUL Petroleums Ltd. assessed Metallic and Industrial Minerals Permits on the Clear Hills and at Notikewin Fire Tower (Notikewan Hill 2850 ft. ASL). We sampled Rambling Creek and surveyed parts of Twp 90-91, Rge 4-5 W6M. A literature search and summary report was prepared by TUL Petroleums Ltd. in 1995 and published. (M.J. Kelly & M.J. Stapleton, 1995) See our photos on Google Earth Outcrops: The Swift Creek deposit (Rambling Creek "B") outcrops on the north flank of the Clear Hills. Rambling Creek flows eastward in the S 1/2 Section 35, Twp 90 Rge 5 and turns north through W 1/2 S36. The original ore test pit is due west of the fire tower, just above the creek on its west side, in LSD 9-2-91-5-6. Anomalous gold values are reported in Boulay et al, 1995, Marum Resources - Iron Cap Gold - AGS publication. The upper iron outcrops in NW 1, Twp 91, Rge 5 W6M below the barrow pit at an elevation of about 2525 ft. ASL. The ore beds are generally flat laying and dipping about 10 feet per mile southwest. A grey ironstone outcrops in the stream and creates a small cascade at the break between upper and lower formations. About 100 meters north of that location, the lower iron outcrop appears in the creek banks as a more oxidized unit of the Clear Hills Iron Ore Deposit. The Worsley Pit is more or less 40 miles to the southeast of Rambling Creek "B" on the south flank of the Clear Hills, six miles north-northeast of Worsley on the Rainy Lake Road. (LSD 12-35-87-7 W6M) It consists of 12-20 feet of iron laden sediments that outcrop in an abandoned wellsite on the northeast side of the road. (shown above with Robin standing in the trench) The Clear Hills iron ore deposit is near the center of the West Peace Diamond Indicator Mineral (DIM) Trend according to our assessment reports filed in 1997 and 1999. http://www.ags.gov.ab.ca/publications/ABSTRACTS/MIN_19980014.html These are available from Alberta Energy, Publications Department and Alberta Geological Survey. If we knew the source of the iron, we would have a better knowledge of the physical geometry of the resource. It may be a billion tons, it may be 3 or 4 billion tons. Not enough drilling or geophysical exploration has been done to assess the ore bodies and little stratigraphic logging has been completed. The area is a plateau in northern Alberta and is physically remote and wet in summer. Oil industry activity and forestry companies are exploiting the area and it is only a few miles to the Peace River Lowlands where there are towns, farms and ranches, and a railhead is present. |
PUBLICATIONS on the CLEAR HILLS IRON ORE DEPOSIT |
1954 | McDougall. Preliminary Report on the Peace River Iron Ore Deposit by D.B. McDougall |
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1959 | Kidd. Iron Occurrences in the Peace River Region, Alberta by Donald Kidd |
1961 | Edgar. Iron Prospecting Permit No. 16, Swift Creek Iron Deposit by Norm Edgar |
1961 | Edgar. Report on the Clear Hills Iron Deposits of Alberta by N.S.Edgar |
1962 |
Green & Mellon. Geology of the Chinchaga River and Clear Hills... by R. Green and G. Mellon |
1962 | Edgar. Report on the Clear Hills Iron Deposits of Alberta by N.S.Edgar |
1962 | Samis & Gregory. Reduction of Clear Hills Iron Ore by R-N Process by C.S. Samis & J. Gregory |
1963 | Edgar. Report on Iron Prospecting Permit No. 22 by N.S.Edgar |
1964 | Edgar. A drill program was conducted on Peace River Mining and Smelting Iron Prospecting Permit No. 20 in 1963. This is the final report by N.S.Edgar. |
1970 | CANMET. (Natural Resources Canada Mining and Minerals Services Laboratories) |
1975 | Bertram & Mellon. Peace River Iron Deposits by Ed Bertram and George Mellon |
1980 | Hamilton. Clear Hills Iron Deposit Geology, Mineralogy and Ore Reserves by Wylie Hamilton |
1995 | Boulay. Report on the Ironcap Gold Property, Peace River by Richard Boulay |
1995 | Stapleton & Kelly. Metallic and Industrial Mineral Assessment Report in Support of the Peace Diamond Project and the Iron and Gold Exploration in the Peace River Area by Jim Stapleton and Mike Kelly |
1999 | Olsen et al. Study of Potential Co-Product Trace Elements Within the Clear Hills Iron Deposits... by Reg Olson, Roy Eccles and Chris Collom. |
2004 | Qi Liu et al. Extractive metallurgy of Clear Hills ironstone deposit by Qi Liu, Tom Etsell, Patrick Kerr |
2004 | Weiss et al. Clear Hills Ironstone and Coal Resources 2004 Digital Compilation and Some Geochemical and Geological Highlights from 2004 Fieldwork by J. Weiss, R.A. Olsen and D.T. Sneddon. |
2005 | AGS. Rock Chips, Alberta Geological Survey Publications |
2005 | EUB/AGS. Geo-Note 2005-05 Digital Compilation of Ooidal Ironstone and Coal Data, Clear Hills - Smoky River Region, Northwest Alberta by R.A. Olson, J.A. Weiss and E.J. Alesi |
2006 | Sneddon. Resource Potential of the Clear Hills Iron Deposit, Alberta for GENERAL PROPERTIES LTD. (General Mining Properties Ltd.) by D. Tom Sneddon |
2008 | Caplan. Mineral Assessment Report 2008 Clear Hills Project by Barry Caplan |
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