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RT Minerals Corp. Files NI 43-101 Technical Report for Ballard Lake Diamond and Gold Property, Wawa, Ontario
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - May 23, 2017) - RT Minerals Corp. (TSXV: RTM) (...
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[{"type":"text","content":"RT Minerals Corp. Files NI 43-101 Technical Report for Ballard Lake Diamond and Gold Property, Wawa, OntarioVancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - May 23, 2017) - RT Minerals Corp. (TSXV: RTM) (OTC: RTMFF) (the \"Company\") announces that the Company has filed a NI 43-101 Technical Report on SEDAR for the Ballard Lake diamond and gold property (the \"Property\"), which is 100% owned and subject to a 2% retained royalty. The Ballard Lake property is located approximately 50 kilometres northeast of Wawa, Ontario, Canada, within the Michipicoten Greenstone Belt, Sault Ste. Marie Mining Division. The Property covers 366 square kilometres (36,592 hectares; ~141 square miles) of ground that is prospective for diamonds and gold. Most diamond mines and exploration prospects in Canada are remote, but the Ballard Lake property is located along Provincial Highway 651 and the CNR railway, and is widely accessible by regional logging roads.The Ballard Lake property lies in the Wawa supracrustal belt of the Superior Craton which is currently being explored by major and junior exploration companies for gold and diamonds. The Ballard Lake property covers the Ballard Lake Shear Zone (\"BLSZ\"), a deep crustal and possibly mantle tapping structure that is adjacent to a 12 kilometre (~7.5 mile) long granodiorite/volcanic contact with ample room for significant mineralization. Alkalic ultramafic intrusions present in the BLSZ may have followed this structure from depth to surface, and the BLSZ may have also served as a conduit for hydrothermal fluids carrying gold.The Company's Ballard Lake property covers two diamond-bearing kimberlite dikes: GC1 (16 diamonds from 93.1 kg) and Fletch (6 diamonds from 51.48 kg) which were discovered by previous explorers on surface. Historical diamond results were reported by Chalice Diamond Corp. (\"Chalice\") in February 2008. The Company's Qualified Person had direct involvement in sampling and diamond recovery of the GC-1 occurrence following its discovery in 2001 led by Mike Tremblay (vendor of the Ballard Lake property and 2013 Ontario Prospector of the Year).Chalice also completed an extensive regional exploration program in the Ballard Lake area that included regional kimberlite indicator mineral sampling, prospecting, modern airborne geophysical surveys, and ground geophysical surveys, trenching, m...