Monique Block
posted on
Mar 04, 2020 02:56PM
Mineralized Zones
The August 27th news re drill results on the new M zone immediately south of zones A and B are along the eastern end [200 m] of a 500 m mineralized zone identified as a diorite/dacite dyke. The western part of the dyke doesn't appear to have any drilling on it based on the the figure from the release. The legend identifies the red zones as mineralized so prehaps there is data that hasn't been released, possibly the new higher powered IP equipment has identified the possiblity of sulpides but that would be still not enough to jump to 'mineralized'.
Beyond the dyke rock the figure shows 2 wide spread rock types one of which is mafic/ultramafic while the other is not typed but could be felsic intrusives based on older maps. The figure identifies a large number of drill holes, 100 plus 'Post 43-101RE [MO-18-01@14]' east and west of the former open pits. There is no way to guess why these holes were drilled but possibly the sites had a geophysical signature and at least some mineralization was found that encouraged the company to keep drilling. Just maybe the higher powered IP will solve the question why all the holes were drilled.
Both the dykes and the orientation of the mafic/ultra mafic rock units trends E--W which is different than most mineralized zones on Beliveau and Courivan which are N--S. Have no idea why but maybe there is some major structure in between. Believe there was also ultra mafics along the Island Garden Fault, could be PRB geos have a model that there using that ties all this together??
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