SillimaniteResults: In the showings sillimanite ranges are 11.0-17.3 % for Rive, 6.0-11.7 % for SIL4, and 2.5-9.0 % for SIL5. Potential of considerable resources of sillimanite in the Basillim LineamentMineralization: In the Rive showing sillimanite is in crystals up to 3 cm disseminated in quartz-feldspar gneiss; in the SIL4 showing, translucent fibrolite in 1-3 mm nodules in quartz-feldspar gneiss; and in the SIL5 showing, 2-4 cm translucent crystals in mm to cm bands in quartz-feldspar-magnetite gneiss.The gneiss are in bands up to several meters wide. Three sillimanite showings Rive, SIL4 & SIL5 occur in a 2 x 8 km stratigraphic mag low called Basillim Lineament.

Location : Nts 31 L 08-Canton Edwards-Témiscamingue

Land Area : 1427.10 hectares-24 claims

Working at Present:
G grab sampling,petrographic studies, chemical and X ray anays

Property Summary:
1969 Discovery of a sillimanite showing later called Rive showing, no sampling (Quebec Natural Resources Ministry DP-106 & RP-580). 2000-2001 Prospecting, mapping, Rive showing located, SIL4 & SIL5 showings discovered, grab sampling, petrographic studies, chemical and X ray analysis. Other comments: Sillimanite is used in refractories. Sillimanite is sold as raw concentrate and also as added value products such as refined sillimanite, calcined sillimanite or mullite and by-products. Possible co-products are quartz, feldspar, biotite, muscovite, etc. Iron, steel, aluminium, cement, ceramic and glass industries use sillimanite refractories.

China and India are the largest producers of sillimanite but production is limited and mostly consumed by their domestic markets. Competitive refractories to sillimanite are synthetic mullite, superduty fire clays, high alumina materials and sillimanite’s polymorphs andalusite and kyanite. In North America there is no commercial production of sillimanite.