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From the Website....
Stated in many places......
South Lucky Copper
Copper mineralization is quite visible in an old pit near the gravel road and impressive malachite staining along with chalcocite is strata bound within the more sandy beds of the sediments. The horizon that hosts the mineralization has been traced for approx. 17kms with copper mineralization at a thickness of 300ft in places and assay results of 2.5% Cu has been discovered in exposed areas in the pit from within this horizon. This type of environment has the potential to produce low grade, large tonnage copper deposits similar to those of the Zambia copper belt. More ground work is planned for the Northern portion of the property in the upcoming season
And just add back in.....
Shaylee
Rock Types: Sericite schist derived from felsic volcanic and epiclastic sedimentary protholiths. The region is traversed by numerous faults, most of which are high-level brittle features. The most notable of these are the Charlottetown, Salmon Brook and Platter Cove Faults and the unnamed structure that defines the western boundary of the Love Cove Group. Some of these may represent brittle reactivation of earlier, more fundamental structures. The Shaylee copper mineralization is in a rock cut on the Bunyon's Cove road. The mineralization is approx 75m wide and continues to the shoreline approximately 1km and consists of stringers of native copper, Chalcocite and Malachite staining. Continuing along the road approximately 200m, there is another copper zone containing Chalcocite and Malachite. This showing is approximately 50m wide.
And Colliers which we have not heard much from has a great report which should be read....
Colliers Property
Mineralization consisting of chalcopyrite, bornite and calcite which occurs as patches and as fillings of fractures in the andesitic and basaltic rocks of the Harbour Main Group. The occurrence consists of an old working with a 90 foot (27 m) shaft. Malachite stains are abundant on the surface of the host rock. Copper Mineralization also occurs in the subaerial mafic volcanic rocks as occurrences which usually contain one or more of native copper, chalcocite, chalcopyrite, covellite and bornite in veins, amygdule fillings, disseminations and shear zones. This deposit was documented as early as 1868, and other than the 27m shaft this deposit has never been drilled off leaving much unknown about the source and amount of contained copper and silver within this deposit. Assays from the surrounding host rock yielded results as high as 23.60% Copper and 236.30 g/t silver.
http://www.katexploration.com/Graphics/properties/Colliers%20Property/REPORT_ON_PROPERTY_EXAMINATION.pdf
Seems like we would want to use the attorneys letter like you pointed out last time..LOL
Well lets see if cornerstone drops them or finds some one else...
maybe some of the folks here should go to their site and press them for a material press release.... Maybe they dont need Cornerstone anymore...since they have their own claims now north of the Katx claims......lets see if the cancel all of their claims....
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=61307625
warant
Thursday, March 24, 2011
VALE---Red Cliff---- NR???
VALE being the operator of the drilling on the Red Cliff property last year. The rumors I heard then was that they were happy with results.
Was talking with management today and it seem that we may get a NR on drill results very soon and lets hope that it includes more drilling on the property.
CGP do like Tuesdays for NR lets hope for this following week coming up!
DO YOU ACTUALLY THINK that if these glowing theories were not true about the Bonvista, Vale would DROP the Red Cliff and Deer Harbour and South Luck and NOT have stake all that new moose pasture the Steads just picked up ? You must be joking the have been sitting on Red Cliff and Deer Harbor since Ken was at Cornerstone.....since 2004.....
Nothing there...sure....leach plant hiring....Rare earth extracting part of the process...cobalt...
Do you think they held on to those claims since 2004 and paid Thorson (the expert on SSC by the way) since 2004 if there was nothing....there.... come on......
Well thats the point isn't....the plan, the plant and the grade of copper that can be process has changed...thats way Vale has JV all along the BonaVista...look at a map.....do you see Vale with another Copper processing facility....No so why the JV at Deer Harbor, Red Cliff, and South Lucky...the copper and mineral in the Blue Point Horizon.....many have read the reports...the minerals are there....The plant to process them is almost ready
That deal you speak about is true Newfoundland made them build the plant...but that deal was as old the plant and deal has be redesigned and resize ...also posted manytimes...tsk..tsk...tsk..
The process uses a variety of processes and the question is what is the true put of each process...and the nickel process is the limiting process and the longest...the Copper is a secondary minor process....but it add value to the plant along with the recovery of cobalt and rare earths...read the article...
THE REPORT ALSO SAYS THAT COPPER DEPOSITS AS LOW AS .04 % COPPER WERE PROCESSED PROFITABLY..
And there are many other elements to be extracted from the horizon that the Blue Point Copper is found to be in....that the whole point of the Hinchley report....
Vale has began to hire....for the leach plant....BVIG/KATG low grade copper....just may have a place to go....The Clock is ticking.....
Rare earths linked to low grade copper deposits...Vale Inco and OD all in one chart and one article....hydromet.....see chart on page 3
Voisey Bay Vale-Inco Ni/Co/Cu Bateman Settler On-going
Tres Valles Vale Cu (20,000t/y) Bateman Settler 2010
The technology is increasingly
being used by the minerals
industry to separate, purify and
concentrate metals such as
nickel, cobalt, copper, zinc,
uranium and rare earths.
Vale has began to hire....for the leach plant....BVIG/KATG low grade copper....just may have a place to go....The Clock is ticking.....
Rare earths linked to low grade copper deposits...Vale Inco and OD all in one chart and one article....hydromet.....see chart on page 3
Voisey Bay Vale-Inco Ni/Co/Cu Bateman Settler On-going
Tres Valles Vale Cu (20,000t/y) Bateman Settler 2010
The technology is increasingly
being used by the minerals
industry to separate, purify and
concentrate metals such as
nickel, cobalt, copper, zinc,
uranium and rare earths.
The most promising area other than Blue Point identified by this
work is the region located north of the town of Port Rexton.
http://gis.geosurv.gov.nl.ca/geofilePDFS/ReceivedBatch2/NFLD_2778.pdf
The most promising area other than Blue Point identified by this
work is the region located north of the town of Port Rexton.
page 7
Claims in the prospector name...seems to be a fairly common practice
http://gis.geosurv.gov.nl.ca/geofilePDFS/ReceivedBatch2/NFLD_2778.pdf page 10
seems to be a common practice....to save money...they did this with KATX and at Cornerstone with Giant Noranada
7866M 2/2/2001 4/3/2002 30 Smith Sound,Eastern Nfld Timothy Froude
7867M 2/2/2001 4/3/2002 30 Smith Sound,Eastern Nfld Timothy R. Stead
7868M 2/2/2001 4/3/2002 30 Smith Sound,Eastern Nfld Ken Stead Jr.
7869M 2/2/2001 4/3/2002 30 Smith Sound,Eastern Nfld John Fleming
The most promising area other than Blue Point identified by this
work is the region located north of the town of Port Rexton. bottom of page 7....
This picture for the upcoming conference but have canceled the trip talking about SSC with Leon Normore....It is the *SHOWCASE* exploration area.....or was going to be before Normore's field trip was canceled.
http://gac.esd.mun.ca/nl/news.htm
You can scroll across the photo.... very large....now why would you want 2" boring samples and why would you only do seven......and only a few deep enough to hit the horizon with the copper...????? and why just report on only the copper....??? seem only one drill hole was even deep enough....but that ok seems the South Lucky is in to the copper bearing horizon same a blue point with only using a back hoe to dig a trench.....go South Lucky....
http://www.infomine.com/index/pr/PB018081.PDF
notice the deep of the holes...and how deep the hole was that found the copper.....what about the other minerals found in 2001 why no mention of those until the Hinchey reports....seems a little odd....
This picture for the upcoming conference but have cancelled the trip talking about SSC with Leon Normore.... http://gac.esd.mun.ca/nl/news.htm
Seems like something going on in the areas of highest intensity....
http://gis.geosurv.gov.nl.ca/resourceatlas/viewer.htm look at the changes and new claims for yourself
7753072 020010M
Claim Info KAT Exploration Inc. RECORDED
24 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:00:00 Mon, 27 May 2013 00:00:00 02D08 $0.00
1 7750192 015991M
Claim Info KAT Gold Holdings Corp. Bunyans Cove, Eastern NL ISSUED
21 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:00:00 Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:00:00 02C05 02D08 $261,277.0
1 7750608 016773M
Claim Info KAT Gold Holdings Corp. Bunyans Cove, Eastern NL ISSUED
32 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:00:00 02C05 02D08 $413,842.00
1 7751760 018404M
Claim Info KAT Gold Holdings Corp. Bunyans Cove, Eastern NL ISSUED
102 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:00:00 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:00:00 02C05 02D08 $0.00
1 7753072 020010M
Claim Info KAT Exploration Inc. RECORDED
24 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:00:00 Mon, 27 May 2013 00:00:00 02D08 $0.00
Still have Avalon Copper claims....just need one....Fifield pits is south lucky....Colliers and Rusty Ridge...
http://www.nr.gov.nl.ca/mines&en/geosurvey/publications/cr2006/sparkes.pdf
Has some of the same Herring Cove formation as South Lucky
Just west of the Au box....
Quote:
Although the copper mineralization is widespread at Site 1 and the resulting assays
appreciable in copper concentration, it is hard to say how widespread the
mineralization really is. The lack of mapping and prospecting done to date gives no
evidence as to the extent of the mineralization but the presence of a second shaft in
the area of the quarry (Stop 3) may suggest that the tuffaceous copper mineralized
unit may extend much further west than what is already known.
http://gis.geosurv.gov.nf.ca/mrinquiry/License.asp?License=011706M
http://gis.geosurv.gov.nl.ca/geofilePDFS/ReceivedBatch33/001N_0824.pdf
http://www.katexploration.com/Graphics/properties/Colliers%20Property/REPORT_ON_PROPERTY_EXAMINATION.pdf
Assays returned 1.48% Cu and 6.63g/t Ag over 11.0m. This interval also included
3.00% Cu and 19.90g/t Ag over 3.0m and a second interval of 1.86% Cu and
1.60g/t Ag over 2.0m
Seven grab samples were collected from the exposure and the average values
of all samples assayed 8.65% copper and 61.59 g/t silver. The seven samples ranged
from .09% to 23.6% copper and from 0.3 g/t to 236.3 g/t silver. A subsequent channel
sample was cut by another exploration company during a site visit, using a diamond saw
blade, and averaged 11m @ 1.48% copper and 6.63 g/t silver
Quote:
Although the copper mineralization is widespread at Site 1 and the resulting assays
appreciable in copper concentration, it is hard to say how widespread the
mineralization really is. The lack of mapping and prospecting done to date gives no
evidence as to the extent of the mineralization but the presence of a second shaft in
the area of the quarry (Stop 3) may suggest that the tuffaceous copper mineralized
unit may extend much further west than what is already known.
Great map bit old
http://www.nr.gov.nl.ca/mines&en/geosurvey/maps/pros_envir_Nfld.pdf
Note the legend and the colors for Rusty Ridge and North Lucky
Handcamp on map as well, very interesting that the Vale plant is located were it is....and the JV that Vale has are in line with the same colors and type deposits...and that it was once a Cornerstone Claim as well...very interesting....
NEOPROTEROZOIC STRATIGRAPHY OF THE BONAVISTA ...
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat
by SJ O'Brien - Cited by 5 - Related articles
across the Bonavista Peninsula of eastern Newfoundland. (Figure 1). This work is ... geochemical surveys targeting cobalt and lead anomalies in the lake-sediment ... and 12.1 g/t Ag over 14.25 m including 2% Cu and 23.1 g/t over 6 m (see ..... Wolf Cove facies, v) Monk Bay–Hodderville facies, and vi). King's Cove North ...
http://www.nr.gov.nl.ca/mines&en/geosurvey/publications/cr2002/OBrien_King.pdf
Wolf Cove dyke.....Scroll down ad in the way....
THIS is from 2009... http://www.nr.gov.nl.ca/mines&en/publications/minfo/Spring2009_MINFO.pdf Page 7 Leon Normore, John Hinchey. It mentions the geotourism and SSC way back when they started the program...and anticipated renewed interest in SSC deposit.......
It’s one of the key reasons we built the demonstration plant in Argentia. We learned how these minor elements build up over time and we invented or deployed new processing steps to specifically deal with them.”
http://www.sudburyminingsolutions.com/articles/News/09-11-Vale-hydromet.asp
Deployed new processing steps to deal with the minor elements....seems RED Cliff has a bunch of minor elements that Vale has not comment on for years....but Normore did same formation that KATX is in.....notice the darker density of the Vale claim under Red Cliff and the Darker density of the North Lucky Claims....
Date Published | Sep. 2011
Vale hydromet plant on target
BY NORM TOLLINSKY
Vale’s ground-breaking $2.8 billion hydromet processing facility currently under construction in Long Harbour, Newfoundland, expands the application of hydrometallurgy and its adoption as an economically viable and environmentally friendly processing technology.
The massive capital project is more than 40 per cent complete and on target to begin processing nickel sulphide concentrate from Vale’s Voisey’s Bay Mine in Labrador by 2013.
“Hydromet technology has advanced significantly over the past 15 years and is being applied to areas where it was never thought to be viable,” said Don Stevens, general manager, operations, Long Harbour Processing Plant.
More and more processors are moving toward full hydrometallurgy or incorporating hydromet steps in conventional pyrometallurgical facilities, as is the case in Sudbury, he noted.
Conventional pyrometallurgy requires two separate facilities – a smelter and a refinery, whereas “we do it all in one step,” said Stevens. “We dissolve the feed directly and refine and recover it without having to handle and transport it to a different facility, so it’s more efficient.”
Hydrometallurgy is also more energy efficient, noted Stevens.
“We did an assessment in 2002 to propose hydrometallurgy as an environmentally responsible new process and did a lifecycle analysis of total energy required for smelting and refining, as well as for hydrometallurgy, and we found that our hydrometallurgy process used significantly less energy – mostly because of the one plant, versus the two plants and the efficiencies gained there.”
Another important benefit of hydrometallurgy is the elimination of air emissions.
“That’s huge,” said Stevens. “That’s the big advantage that we saw in hydromet in the first instance. In a smelter, you’re effectively burning all the sulphur that’s associated with the feed and then recovering it at great expense. With hydrometallurgy, the sulphur still needs to be removed from the nickel by reaction with oxygen, but we do it under water in a large pressure vessel called an autoclave. Instead of going up a stack and scrubbed, it remains behind in a solid phase.”
Vale’s initial thinking was to build a conventional smelter and refinery in Newfoundland. At the time, the company was working on the assumption of a mine and mill producing about 20,000 tonnes a day, and a mine life of 10 years based on the then known reserves and resources.
“However, a panel looking at the mine and mill project from a environmental assessment perspective didn’t want to see a project that had a very short duration with all the problems associated with a boom-bust scenario, so they essentially directed that the mine and mill rate be scaled down to 6,000 tonnes per day, which would extend the operating life of the mine and the known reserves at that point in time to 17 or 18 years.”
At 6,000 tonnes per day, conventional smelter and refinery technology was deemed uneconomic, forcing Vale to go back to the drawing board.
The company had already committed to building a smelter and refinery in the province as part of a development agreement with the government of Newfoundland and Labrador, so as an alternative to going the pyrometallurgical route, it promised to invest in an R&D program to develop a hydromet process. In the event that the R&D program wasn’t successful, it committed to building a conventional refinery in Newfoundland to process nickel matte produced from Voisey’s Bay concentrate at smelting complexes in Sudbury or Thompson, Manitoba.
R&D
“We went back to our labs in Sheridan Park, Mississauga to look at some known extraction methods and put together a flow sheet that we felt would be less expensive both in terms of an initial investment and also long-term operating costs so we could justify going forward and developing the property,” said Stevens.
Vale invested $200 million in an R&D program, going from bench testing to a 1:10,000 scale mini pilot plant at Sheridan Park and, ultimately, to a 1:100 scale demonstration plant in Argentia, Newfoundland. The demonstration plant cost $100 million and operated for two and a half years at an additional cost of $50 million.
“It’s a very complicated flow sheet,” said Stevens. “Our feed is not just nickel. It’s nickel, cobalt and copper, plus all the various impurities. We had to make sure we had an effective and proven method to not only extract and recover the metals, but also to track and manage the deportment of all the impurities and trace elements.
Avalon Copper on the BonaVista The Rare Volcanic rocks in the Neoprotizoic Sedimentary Rocks...North Lucky is in the center of the dykes and mafic sedimentary rocks on the BonaVista....
http://www.nr.gov.nl.ca/mines&en/geosurvey/publications/commodities/copper.pdf
Comments about the Zambian Copper belt being 10,000 miles away today are explained by the location of Avalonia eons ago Newfoundland was off the Coast of Africa and the evolution of Several deep marine basin to recieve the SEDimentary deposit...
( all the deposit would have be in the salt water) and then the Avalonia arc docked it the balance of the Appalachians...
The Bull Arm Volcanics...
River dominated deltas....
It is important to note......
While it does not say KATX it does give the location of the dykes and the study is on going....
See the rest of the report and photos
The Rare Volcanic rocks in the Neoprotizoic Sedimentary Rocks...North Lucky is in the center of the dykes and mafic sedimentary rocks on the BonaVista....
New Showings in Old Rocks
Older file but Froude and Hinchey and Obrien have been researching the Bull Arm Volcanics for years page 16 and 17 are about Rusty Ridge as part of the Love Cove formation and Ken's Mountain on page 23 .... Seems Hinchey and Froude and Ken Stead shared quite a bit of data in 2002 ....and notice the Red Cliff data as well seem Hinchey was very familiar with all the properties...
Vale says Red Cliff was a strike out....so then where is the deposit that Hinchey gave his Gaint Ore Seminar about located?
http://gac.esd.mun.ca/nl/pdf/Field%20Guide%202000.pdf
copper deposits in the Bonavista Peninsula’s ancient sandstones. from the.geocanada2010.ca conference before things went silent...KAT's North Lucky Claims are in these Formations...
Therefore, in recognition of his outstanding work in geoscience, Professional Engineers and Geoscientists Newfoundland and Labrador confers the Early Accomplishment Award on Dr. John Hinchey, P.Geo
© Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Newfoundland and Labrador
http://www.pegnl.ca/dialogue/issues/2010/July%202010/Articles/Early%20Accomp..htm
copper deposits in the Bonavista Peninsula’s ancient sandstones. from the.geocanada2010.ca conference before things went silent...KAT's North Lucky Claims are in these Formations...
Therefore, in recognition of his outstanding work in geoscience, Professional Engineers and Geoscientists Newfoundland and Labrador confers the Early Accomplishment Award on Dr. John Hinchey, P.Geo
© Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Newfoundland and Labrador
http://www.pegnl.ca/dialogue/issues/2010/July%202010/Articles/Early%20Accomp..htm
Great piece of work....Tink all from public sources....great....
Avalon Copper on the BonaVista
The Rare Volcanic rocks in the Neoprotizoic Sedimentary Rocks...North Lucky is in the center of the dykes and mafic sedimentary rocks on the BonaVista....
http://www.nr.gov.nl.ca/mines&en/geosurvey/publications/commodities/copper.pdf
Comments about the Zambian Copper belt being 10,000 miles away today are explained by the location of Avalonia eons ago Newfoundland was off the Coast of Africa and the evolution of Several deep marine basin to recieve the SEDimentary deposit...
( all the deposit would have be in the salt water) and then the Avalonia arc docked it the balance of the Appalachians...
The Bull Arm Volcanics...
River dominated deltas....
It is important to note......
While it does not say KATX it does give the location of the dykes and the study is on going....
See the rest of the report and photos
The Rare Volcanic rocks in the Neoprotizoic Sedimentary Rocks...North Lucky is in the center of the dykes and mafic sedimentary rocks on the BonaVista....
This is all about the basin that Rusty Ridge,and North and South Lucky are in
http://www.flickr.com/photos/flyin_bayman/399810004/in/set-72157603625915499/
http://gis.geosurv.gov.nl.ca/geofilePDFS/ReceivedBatch13/NFLD_2900.pdf page 187 to page 192 from 2004 cornerstone report
Notice the Name Hitzman...He and Thorson have written more about SSC deposits....Marine Source rock full fill the second requirements...
http://economicgeology.org/content/105/3/627.short
Did not say he was...you failed to read the and....but you made my point....Thorson works under The head VEC GEO Cameron and we are waiting for information from both.....weeks have turned into almost a year....
Thorson Vale's consulting Geo and VEC's Principal Geologist for North American Exploration were to release news in a few week as well March 29 th 2011 gotta make you wonder....
my typo....should have been were not was....
Bottom line is it was built for nickel, does not mean it can not also process copper....nickel is the the final product of the process but it also may have limiting production factors...and while the plant is processing nickel, their could easily be extra capacity to process copper.. bottom line....Vale has the same type copper deposit in Chile as Newfoundland and the process alot of copper.....The plans for the plant have been adjusted many times since the requirement to build the plant first came out...bottom line is the plant may have a secondary purpose given the copper deposits Vales been lining up on the BonaVista...Vale has not JVd with Cornerstone and KATX because they are solely a nickel producer....or the facility can not be quickly adjusted to process copper....if they can make an additional buck....many steps are the same....its ok if the copper is a by product the equipment to process the copper is in the plant......
So unless you have facts about the through put of the plant you can choose to believe that its just a coincidence that Cornerstone had a claim where the plant was located, and that the Noranda Red Cliff find in 2001 at Red Cliff is still an active Cornerstone JV and the fact the low grade copper can not be processed (proved by the pilot plant) in 2006 does not have something to do with the copper well you can continue to believe that Vale is just processing nickel....
Is it good, Yes.
If you read the DD from Cornerstone you will see that information is not any more forth Coming than it is for KATX or BVIG
Thorson Vale's consulting Geo and VEC's Principal Geologist for North American Exploration was to release news in a few week as well March 29 th 2011 gotta make you wonder....
Avalon Copper on the BonaVista
The Rare Volcanic rocks in the Neoprotizoic Sedimentary Rocks...North Lucky is in the center of the dykes and mafic sedimentary rocks on the BonaVista....
http://www.nr.gov.nl.ca/mines&en/geosurvey/publications/commodities/copper.pdf
Comments about the Zambian Copper belt being 10,000 miles away today are explained by the location of Avalonia eons ago Newfoundland was off the Coast of Africa and the evolution of Several deep marine basin to recieve the SEDimentary deposit...
( all the deposit would have be in the salt water) and then the Avalonia arc docked it the balance of the Appalachians...
The Bull Arm Volcanics...
River dominated deltas....
It is important to note......
While it does not say KATX it does give the location of the dykes and the study is on going....
See the rest of the report and photos
The Rare Volcanic rocks in the Neoprotizoic Sedimentary Rocks...North Lucky is in the center of the dykes and mafic sedimentary rocks on the BonaVista....
Thorson Vale's Consulting Geo. has been on the payroll since 2004 and Vale has 3 JV on the BonaVista Deer Harbor, Red Cliff and Fifield Pits (south lucky) and since North Lucky .Interesting theory....now they are going to cancel claims...soon....LOL looks like they have a plant to process copper on the largest copperbelt in the world....
This is all about the basin that North and South Lucky are in
http://www.flickr.com/photos/flyin_bayman/399810004/in/set-72157603625915499/
http://gis.geosurv.gov.nl.ca/geofilePDFS/ReceivedBatch13/NFLD_2900.pdf page 187 to page 192 from 2004 cornerstone report
Notice the Name Hitzman...He and Thorson have written more about SSC deposits....Marine Source rock full fill the second requirements...
http://economicgeology.org/content/105/3/627.short
You mean like this . . .
as in vulcanism on the seabed and this both in the bighead formation.....North Lucky
A regionally unified stratigraphic framework may also
assist with exploration of large tonnage sediment-hosted
stratiform copper deposits in this region. Ongoing work on
the radiometric dating of tuffs above, and below, the Trinity
facies will help determine the stratigraphic relationship
between the Trinity facies and Gaskiers Formation in the
Avalon Zone, as a correlative or a younger Ediacaran glaciation
in the Avalon Zone
http://www.nr.gov.nl.ca/nr/mines/geoscience/publications/currentresearch/2011/Normore-2011.pdf
Normore worked on the cornerstone report ...2004
New link to cornerstone report page 205 and 206
http://gis.geosurv.gov.nl.ca/geofilePDFS/WBox022/002C_0129.pdf
Another Zambian Copper and Cobalt link....on the Bona Vista...and quess where the quarries are in the Bonavista Formation...while we are waiting on News from Phd J Hinchey...but This links the Normore report with the Hinchey finds on copper and cobalt
Quote:
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On southeastern Newfoundland, stromatolites built by blue-green algae of the genus Girvanella are found in conglomerate and limestone strata of the Bonavista Formation (approximately 550 million years in age).
In the Transvaal region of South Africa, delicately banded stromatolitic structures compose one of the most widespread of early Proterozoic shallow-water carbonate deposits in the world, extending over an area exceeding 100,000 square kilometers.
In nearby Zambia, algal stromatolites are closely associated with rock sequences containing economic levels of copper and cobalt.
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http://lifeofplant.blogspot.com/2011/01/stromatolites.html
GEOLOGY OF THE BONAVISTA MAP AREA (NTS 2C/11 ...
www.nr.gov.nl.ca/mines&en/geosurvey/publications/CR2010/2010_Normore... - Similarto GEOLOGY OF THE BONAVISTA MAP AREA (NTS 2C/11 ...
Quote:
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a remnant of the strata deposited during the Early Cambrian global sea-level rise. ... rocks are the Early Cambrian Bonavista Formation slates disconformably deposited .... formably overlain by slate, sandstone and limestone of the ... polymictic conglomerate (Plate 2) forms isolated outcrops ..... The pink and red stromatolitic
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Another Zambian Copper and Cobalt link....on the Bona Vista...
Poor assays and yet Vale has optioned the Whole BonaVista go Figure
Really don't see how anyone can say no copper was discovered
Seems its part of the larger basin and the copper while low grade was in four different locations 5 kms apart in a Northern direction....posted and recorded.... which was a Sedex type deposit (scroll down pass ad in way) Now if there was nothing to the yellow stars....Why does Vale have JV options on 3 Red Cliff Deer Harbor and the Luckys....South Lucky is Fifield pits....and oh by the way the North is Vales also.... Vale staked the balance of the BonaVista...to make sure they did miss anything....must be something....
Same horizon mentioned in the Cornerstone reports Vale's consultant geo
going from Blue Point to Deer Harbor to North Lucky...if its published in the Current Research of the Newfoundland government....you can be fairly sure those that want to know know.....
http://gis.geosurv.gov.nl.ca/geofilePDFS/ReceivedBatch22/002C_0178.pdf
South Lucky (Fifields Pit) has reported SSC Mineralization per Dr. Hinchey.
Page 18
http://www.nr.gov.nl.ca/nr/mines/geoscience/publications/currentresearch/2010/hinchey.pdf
not the yellow star and the label...SSC
Really don't see how anyone can say no copper was discovered
Seems its part of the larger basin and the copper while low grade was in four different locations 5 kms apart in a Northern direction....posted and recorded.... which was a Sedex type deposit (scroll down pass ad in way) Now if there was nothing to the yellow stars....Why does Vale have JV options on 3 Red Cliff Deer Harbor and the Luckys....South Lucky is Fifield pits....and oh by the way the North is Vales also.... Vale staked the balance of the BonaVista...to make sure they did miss anything....must be something....
Same horizon mentioned in the Cornerstone reports Vale's consultant geo
going from Blue Point to Deer Harbor to North Lucky...if its published in the Current Research of the Newfoundland government....you can be fairly sure those that want to know know.....
http://gis.geosurv.gov.nl.ca/geofilePDFS/ReceivedBatch22/002C_0178.pdf
South Lucky (Fifields Pit) has reported SSC Mineralization per Dr. Hinchey.
Page 18
http://www.nr.gov.nl.ca/nr/mines/geoscience/publications/currentresearch/2010/hinchey.pdf
not the yellow star and the label...SSC
guess its not new report from 2002 calls it out fairly clearly
http://www.nr.gov.nl.ca/nr/mines/geoscience/publications/currentresearch/2002/obrien_King.pdf
I am not suggesting two holes to prove up a property, I am suggesting that two holes drilling program as a first phase drill program just might provide more information those experienced with that type of deposit. So as to give a level of comfort with the going to the next phase...
Maybe the results are exactly as expected. It was only a two hole drill program and they might have been interested in the degree to which the copper that was suppose to be in the ground....(given the SSC deposit that the dyke and intrusion are located in) but was not...which means it moved to some other location perhaps along the dyke or the fault line...( they did purchase more claims...and dropped some others)
and have yet to issue the result from the lower cores...
My opinion is that there is enough history with two hole EMF reading in these type deposits (Vale Inco and Geo that worked on both would have enough history to know) that I would guess a they know full well that the location of the highest reading might not have any copper in the cores at all... ( Suggest you do a bit more research and post a link if its true that there should be copper at the high readings) otherwise you might want to check a few additional sources ( I know that there are a few and have posted that information a number of times...) but maybe you have some other public sources for this knowledge that you can share...