Very good to see there are interested INVESTORS dealing in this area play called the "Ring of Fire". Now that it looks as though the Hustle Bunny Agoracom, so poorly in judgement appointed, has yet again fled the inquisitiveness of capable thinking INVESTORS, I will try once again to post very positive and functional information on this Forum. The hope is that Agoracom has finally learned a much needed lesson (something they are prone to NOT be very capable of) and the Hustle Bunny will NOT be able to PULL this post as IT has had the misfortune (to all good and interested INVESTORS) of having been given that ILL placed responsibility in the past.

For those who have been reading the NOT Forum for a good long time will recall that I proposed that the initiation of active Geologic Events in the area may well have commenced in ernest by the RELATIVELY (Geological Time thinking needed here) abrupt release of Crustal "Stresses" or "Strains" placed on an area of consolidated rock Distal from an Edge in the Tectonic Plate it sat in. Some EVENT could have triggered the rapid release of the "Stresses" and or "Strains" (Rapid in Geological Time need be kept in mind here) in this area resulting in the area becoming Geologically ACTIVE. Could have been pure build up of pressures from Lateral Rock and or from the underlying Mantle Magma Material, or from a sudden collision at some great distance of an Impact Object (thus indirect cause by an Impact Event) . Regardless, the area became Geologically ACTIVE and is commonly referred to as being a Geological Event Area.

The thin "RED LINE" represents a Shear Zone separating two distance areas of Country Rock (Bedrock or Mineral Host rock). If you consider the "Ring of Fire" as forming a CLOCK Like shape with the area of the 8,9,10, and 11 missing, then the area to the outside of the Clock represents the original or earliest Bedrock in the larger area. At some time in the earliest times of Mineral Deposition, before the Massive external (from the lateral regions and or from beneath) pressure event, there appeared to be some active Submarine Volcanic activity occurring over a relatively prolonged period of time through out the larger area. This Volcanic activity involved considerable Hydrothermal activity at great depth and under great pressures. The depth/pressure effect resulted in the leaching and redistribution of many minerals with considerable accumulations of mineralization occurring through time in areas where the super heated Water was able to find its way through the Host rock up to the Sea Floor surface where it was then rapidly cooled and the Minerals carried along with the super heated water quickly precipitated out onto the sea floor surface to form repeated layers of richly mineralized sediment. Left alone these deposits would have accumulated until the Hydrothermal activity finally came to an end and would be generally characterised as being Serpentinized Mineral Deposits. However, as with observable volcanic activity today, these Hydrothermal Depositional Events were likely and apparently interrupted periodically by surges in Magmatic material escape or releases (lava flows and or volcanic ask bursts).

OK! That is the general Environment stuff. The result is the Older OUTSIDE Rock Environment.

So, what about the INSIDE Rock environment?

Batholith(s)!

Where did they come from and when?

I will offer a response to the WHEN first as that can be responded to quickly. The Batholiths formed, or intruded later in Geologic Time, making the INSIDE of the "Ring of Fire" Clock the Younger Rock material.

I guess, now that I think of it, that the WHERE is even shorter in quick response terms. The Batholith(s) came from deep down in the Crust at the margins with the Mantle.

However, the long response is likely to be more interesting (to those who like to think and hypothesize, etc.) and I will attempt an intermediate type response (because I want to keep my thoughts rather simple and NOT be here typing much longer).

For what ever reason the area INSIDE the Clock rim allowed for the intrusion of large consolidated bodies of Mantle (Magma) to push upward. Could have been the Magma Chamber that usually forms under Clasical Volcanoes that is referred to as the Volcanoes DOME or a series of such structures. Asso, for what ever reason, a great deal of the overlying Rock above these Batholiths was ermoved over time causing the Batholith(s) to eventually arrive at the pisition it/they currently occupy.

At some time during the formation of the/those Batholith(s) there apparently was very considerable Magma flow out of the/those Batholith(s), OR Due to a Catistrophic EVENT that initiated the development of the/those Batholith(s).

Eagle One, I propose, is the result of one of the Magma flows during the Batholith(s) formation(s) or it was a feature of the Cataclismic Event.

Thus, TWO Different if NOT Distince Geological Zones. An Outer VMS style area and an Inner MMS style area (or an MMS style on the inside of the contact ZONE - thin "RED LINE" and VMS on the larger outside area). Where the thin "RED LINE" represents the SHEAR ZONE caused by the Intrusive Batholith forming Event.

All typed out now. Comments, as usual, are very welcome.

Just NOT respecting Hustle Bunnies!!! (time to put a NOT in them as far as Noront Resources is concerned!)

Old Joe

PS: I may NOT respond to any comments for some time but only comments and time can tell.