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Strathcona Fiord

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The Strathcona Fiord Property consists of 3-coal exploration licenses totaling 37,628 hectares located approximately 177-kilometers south-southeast of Eureka weather station, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada. Previous reconnaissance exploration was conducted by Utah Mines Ltd., Petro-Canada, and Hunter Exploration Group.

Utah Mines (1982) divided the Eureka Sound Group at Strathcona Fiord into lower, middle, and upper members. The lower member was described as sandstone, siltstone, mudstone, with minor coal. The middle unit was described as pale sandstone, minor siltstone, and mudstone. The upper unit was described as sandstone, siltstone, mudstone, and coal.* The structural setting of the Eureka Sound Group is broad, open, synclinal folding and it is transected by few normal faults.

This area is historically noted as containing "thickest coal seams in the Arctic Archipelago......" (up to 24m noted by Petro-Canada at loc. 75, see map).**

Ricketts (1989) described coal seams up to 12 meters thick that are well exposed along the steep north shore of Strathcona Fiord that are laterally traceable for at least 8 kilometers.***

Coal rank from lignite to subbituminous.

*Utah Mines (Cowley, 1982)
**Petro-Canada (Panchy and Moorehouse, 1983)
***Ricketts (1989, titled: Coal resource potential in the Arctic Islands: 1. Paleocene coastal plain coals from Strathcona Fiord)

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