I'm still doing my best to wrap my head around all the concepts therein, hopefully I won't fry a circuit in my brain. I still have a couple of stumbling blocks that slow me down...

I found this rather intriguing, from the website, as it goes on to describe "lode gold deposits" in the "Kretschmar Model":

2) Sage Gold Inc, Beardmore Area, Ontario, Lynx Cu-Ag-Au Area.

Photo of synsedimentary slumping in Lynx North area silicate facies iron formation. The Lynx Cu-Au deposit is exhalative and is located about 50 km north of the Kodiak Golden Mile vein area. The iron formation overlies the main Lynx mineralized horizon. View to north, tops to west, unit dips steeply to the west.

Seems to me I read somewhere in there that the reason Kodiak is able to locate and define the shoots with a good measure of predictability ( what they refer to as "periodicity") is that these structures would have had their origins from an underwater vent. And since we have an exhalative deposit 50 km north, that's got to help unravel some of the mystery, you'd think.

I may have this all wrong, but it seems that if what we have now are quartz vein structures at the surface, very linear in nature, and stacked veins as well, then these same structures that are nearly vertical now were once lying flat on the ocean floor. The gooey quartz/pyrite/gold solution would have rolled down underwater embankments, leaving a trail as it went along, and made pools in the flat delta portions of the ocean floor, and solidified. This solution would have likely had it's source at an underwater vent, of which there were likely many. Then you'd have subsequent turbidity depositing material of a different nature overtop, and so on until the cycle repeated itself.

So....you would think that further drilling anywhere in the BGGC would eventually lead to a widening of the ore shoot, into almost a lens shape at times. Not that I can predict whether this would be a richer deposition of mineralization, but since the system has been tilted, we don't really know yet where the "sweet spot" is so to speak. That begs the question, "Where will the more economic deposits be found? Closer to the source?( i.e. white smoker) In narrower vein structures? In areas of massive outpouring of material? All questions I have no answers to.

What I am really curious about is this: if this model is accurate, and if the historical and current gold camps in the region were using a very different model to delineate resource and were STILL successful, then does that mean we have at the surface what they would have to drill 500 metres or more to discover? And does that mean the BGGC will be able to pin down other deposits at depth where the structures are not overturned by making use of the data collected so far in the more vertical structures?

At any rate, these are but a few of the things rattling around in my brain. Maybe Sage and Agoracom should host a "Ask a geologist" question period...LOL.

JMO