Lapa Mine - Agnico

When they refer to a lens, in mining, rather than a vein, or an en echelon structural repetition, they mean that the lens is considered to be the deposit. In Roy Lloyd, you have the ore shoot. The La Ronge gold belt is mostly to be considered to host small ore shoots, despite the fact that Seabee is a mine in the tradtional sense of a vein deposit of modest grades.

The vein deposits probably contain the same modest grades ~6-7g/t, as has been proven by testing Alimak. (and I believe also they tested the Roy Lloyd mine outside of the ore shoot) This will require a much higher gold price. I think we'll get that.

The ore geometry in all of these deposits has proven complex, therefore mining becomes essentially problematic, much like the Komis underground. I sometimes wonder if you had automated mining machines, that they could exploit the veins much more systematically, though I doubt it. Anyways, a higher average gold price will almost certainly open up the deposits in the La Ronge.

Now, the ore shoot at Roy Lloyd would be an awful gamble to place so much emphasis on development if they did not have some indication that the mine could develop into much more. For instance, if they were certain there were a lens.

Note that the Lapa mine lens starts at depth.

Agnico Website

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA7KlpPisYU&feature=related

1400 yr. Old Gold Coins Still Look Great

You wonder why gold makes such good money. Well, you need not wonder any longer. The facts show that gold coins of reasonable purity will remain as new centuries later. As an archealogical find, they are probably priceless.

You might imagine that were the coins made of silver or brass, or copper, they would have been completely oxidized and defaced.

http://youtu.be/0hwyj3iA-jw

-F6