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Seems like much more than just theory.....some of the facts are starting to pile up....just like the pps (all sources are listed in prior post....)
The IBM typewriter font is from Thorson see reports in earlier posts
Note the deposit on the right hand side are layered as if deposit from the river model above
Note the close correlation to the Hinchley reports and the text below the picture....Copper cobalt and Silver....
All the way down to south of Rusty Ridge
Seems like much more than just theory.....some of the facts are starting to pile up....just like the pps
Note the deposit on the right hand side are layered as if deposit from the river model above
Note the close correlation to the Hinchley reports and the text below the picture....Copper cobalt and Silver....
All the way down to south of Rusty Ridge
Seems like Vale is the one slow to release news, maybe that's KATX problem....Weeks become months...Show us some links where Vale releases news on Claims on the BonaVista or JV or progress on the Hydromet plant..3 news releases on Red Cliff in 3 years... Could it be it not in their best interest.....when they buy everyone out....
During the next several weeks, consulting geologist Dr. Jon Thorson and expert on SSC deposits will be reviewing the Red Cliff drill core with VEC and Cornerstone geologists in order to help guide future exploration work.
Why the silence indeed?
http://stjohns2012.ca/gac/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/gac2012.2ndcirc.jan2712E.pdf
NEOPROTEROZOIC STRATIGRAPHY AND SEDIMENTOLOGY
OF THE BONAVISTA PENINSULA (3 Days)
Leon Normore
QUATERNARY GEOLOGY
Normore was scheduled to give a tour... but the tour was canceled ? Wonder why????
http://stjohns2012.ca/gac/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/gac2012.2ndcirc.jan2712E.pdf
Might have something to do with these.....
GEOTOURISM AND THE COASTAL GEOLOGIC HERITAGE OF THE
BONAVISTA PENINSULA: CURRENT CHALLENGES AND FUTURE
OPPORTUNITIES (3 Days)
Amanda McCallum, Sean O'Brien
MISTAKEN POINT: A POTENTIAL WORLD HERITAGE SITE FOR THE
EDIACARAN BIOTA
Richard Thomas
NEOPROTEROZOIC EPITHERMAL GOLD MINERALIZATION OF THE
NORTHEAST AVALON PENINSULA
Greg Sparkes
PROTEROZOIC MINERALIZATION: EXPLORING Ni-Cu, BIF, REE,
AND U MINERALIZATION
Derek Wilton
FROM CRATON TO OFFSHORE BASIN: PROVENANCE OF SEDIMENTARY
SEQUENCES IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC AND ARCTIC
Paul Sylvester, Alana Hinchey
But I bet it just this....
WHY DON’T PEOPLE LISTEN TO US? WHY DO THEY CONTINUE TO
MAKE MISTAKES, FLYING IN THE FACE OF COMMON GEOSCIENCE
KNOWLEDGE? HOW CAN WE INCREASE GEOLOGICAL LITERACY?
Norm Catto
LOL
Don't say its old...
ON-LINE ABSTRACTS SUBMISSION
Abstracts will be accepted from Nov. 15, 2011 to Jan. 27, 2012.
For details: www.stjohns2012.ca
See map on page 109/276 of report
http://gis.geosurv.gov.nl.ca/geofilePDFS/ReceivedBatch13/NFLD_2900.pdf
Musgravetown, right above the V in BonaVista..but notice there a blank white section that was not mapped until 2009 which is in the Normore report in 2010
The descriptive text is on page 13
Thorson Vale's Consulting Geo...Interesting Reading
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
Both the Neoproterozoic and Permian were times of major glacial events. Glaciation may also be conducive for the formation of supergiant sediment-hosted stratiform copper deposits. Glacial periods correspond to magnesium- and sulfate-rich oceans that could have been responsible for additional sulfur in basinal brines developed during evaporite formation and would then be available during the long mineralization process.
Formation of Sedimentary Rock-Hosted Stratiform Copper Deposits through Earth History
The source of copper for stratiform sediment-hosted copper deposits is considered to be redbed clastics situated stratigraphically below the deposits. However, for one of the principal copper provinces in the world, the Zambian Copperbelt, there is insufficient thickness of redbeds to constitute a viable source. Numerical modeling demonstrates that high-salinity sedimentary brines, generated beneath a halite seal, will develop convective hydrothermal plumes that penetrate through the redbeds, deep into the crystalline basement, despite its low permeability and regardless of the availability of cross-stratal conduits. This greatly expands the volume of the potential metal source for this style of ore deposit.
Received 11 May 2009.
Revision received 2 July 2009
Thorson Vale's Consulting Geo...Interesting Reading
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...
If you have been reading along you know there are at least two layers of red beds thats the third requirement
and there are layers on layers of pyrite.....that's the fourth
The dyke swarm adds the heat for the fifth
Read for yourself about the sixth....
Across the Whole BonaVista Massive SSC deposit...
Read the whole report
http://gis.geosurv.gov.nl.ca/geofilePDFS/ReceivedBatch13/NFLD_2900.pdf
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....(Scroll down ad in the way)
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 2011 Mines branch review DD on Sediment Hosted copper Mineralization on the Avalon zone
http://www.nr.gov.nl.ca/nr/mines/geoscience/publications/MinesBranchReview2011.pdf
John Hinchey. The
synthesis and publication of results from previous work in
the Tulks Volcanic Belt of central Newfoundland is now
finalized and release is anticipated for the fall of 2011. This
area is a major focus for exploration for volcanogenic copper,
zinc and lead deposits. John’s work on sediment-hosted
copper mineralization in the Avalon Zone continued
through laboratory studies, and some of this will be featured
in Current Research 2012. In time, this project will provide a
full assessment of potential host rocks, and technical information
on all known occurrences.
Leon Normore continued 1:50 000-scale bedrock mapping
in the Avalon Zone of eastern Newfoundland with the
Random Island map area (NTS 2C/04). This area is to the
south of the Trinity and Bonavista map areas (NTS 2C/06,
NTS 2C/11) that were mapped during the 2009 and 2010
field seasons. The Random Island map area contains a
greater variety of rock types compared to areas to the north
and includes sedimentary, volcaniclastic, volcanic and plutonic
rocks. Field work focused on extending the previously
established stratigraphic framework of the Bonavista
Peninsula to the southwest into the Random Island area.
The well known copper-bearing Blue Point Horizon of the
Crown Hill Formation was found in several new localities
across the entire eastern edge of the map area. Copper mineralization also occurs in the chilled margins of the Herring
Cove Facies pillow lavas located between the Crown Hill and
Rocky Harbour formations.
The well known copper-bearing Blue Point Horizon of the
Crown Hill Formation was found in several new localities
across the entire eastern edge of the map area. Copper mineralization
also occurs in the chilled margins of the Herring
Cove Facies pillow lavas located between the Crown Hill and
Rocky Harbour formations
Thats is North Lucky....Herring Cove is South Lucky
Here is the summary review from 2010..... still waiting for the report in 2012....
Leon Normore continued detailed mapping of the
Ediacaran rocks in the Trinity map area (NTS 2C/06), of
the Bonavista Peninsula, and immediately south of the
Bonavista map area that was mapped in 2009. The Trinity
area is underlain by terrestrial to shallow marine
Neoproterozoic rocks of the Rocky Harbour Formation
containing distinctive glacial deposits that provide excellent
marker horizons throughout the central portion of the map
area. Intrusive and volcanic components comprise a small
portion of the outcrop but add significant information
about the proximity of a siliciclastic sedimentary depocentre
to an active volcanic island-arc sequence
The northern part of the Bonavista Peninsula continues to
receive extensive industry and academic research due to the
sediment-hosted copper potential within the Rocky Harbour
and Crown Hill formations and the presence of Ediacaran
fossils around the Port Union area. Vale Exploration Canada
Inc. staked a large area of the Bonavista Peninsula in
December 2009, and their exploration field crews were
active in this area during the 2010 field season.
http://www.nr.gov.nl.ca/nr/mines/geoscience/publications/minesbranchreview2010.pdf
This is from the 2010 review
For those that think new should come out every day the same folks gathered at Cornerstone Tim Stead Leon Normore Tim Froude and Jon Thorson in 2004 interesting read on the size of the copper deposit largest of its type in the world? could be
http://gis.geosurv.gov.nl.ca/geofilePDFS/ReceivedBatch13/NFLD_2900.pdf page 192
Page 38 Leon Normore was there with Ken Stead and Jon Thorson and Tim Froude...what do they all have in common.....Newfoundland Helicopters Clarenville......and trips to the Bona Vista....
Great pink dots...quarries...find time they show up is after May 2010 must be a big need for gravel....LOL....
Pink dots last Photo in line with Wolfhead dykes.
Cubic Km ....I agree....the numbers are huge not cubic meters...cubic Km glad you read the report....its not a KATX report it and old Cornerstone report....look at page 36 and 38 make note of the persons there and the names on some of the other reports...
http://gis.geosurv.gov.nl.ca/geofilePDFS/ReceivedBatch13/NFLD_2900.pdf
Page 191 and 192
Page 187 item 1
Page 188 item 4
Point to many good things to come IMO.....
But irony I like best is that Falconbridge drill results...which have been improved on IMO were used to do is report gold deposit...showing Handcamp......
ftp://ftp.soc.soton.ac.uk/pub/sph1e08/Hilary%20-%20buchans%20stuff%20of%20interest/piercey-newfoundland.pdf
Notice the graphs,,,,look for Handcamp......seems falconbridge was there for the drilling of Handcamp before the staking of North Lucky on the BonaVista....Some very impressive numbers
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=71167268
Seems a whole team of folk once knew something as they reviewed the data and John Hinchey was there on the drill rig
for falconbridge...with Saunders
Here something new
mafic dyke swarms and Falconbridge, Noranda...BonaVista...
Also shows who had the area below the map...
Falconbridge did.....almost the same size claim
Who did the RED CLIFF JV with Cornerstone in 2001 Noranda... The only Claim inbetween KATX is Vale...Vale Surrounds KATX and the Next claim was Cornerstone Noranda JV....and so far they have only reported on the Copper in 8 holes in 10 years....but the kept the Claim and claimed the rest of the BonaVista...but the dyke swarm....was already taken.....IMO
The geophysical data from this survey has been interpreted in detail at first by Bate (op.
cit.) and subsequently by Anglo (Moyes et. al., 1999). In general the electromagnetic
data was more useful than the magnetic data in the Matsitama Belt due to interference
from a prominent set of post-mineralization mafic dykes. The salient points of these
interpretive studies are listed as follows:
Magnetic Interpretation
• The total magnetic field response is dominated by the magnetic signature of the ESEtrending
Botswana mafic dyke swarm which masks the more subtle magnetic features
associated with the mineralized lithologic units
<<< BCL’s mineral rights in the area lapsed at the end of 1976 and by mid 1977 Falconbridge
Explorations (Botswana) Limited (“Falconbridge”) acquired substantial mineral holdings.
Falconbridge undertook a major exploration programs on the Dukwe and Thakadu-Makala
properties, between 1979 and 1982.
" south central part of the map area"(scroll down ad in the way)
GEOLOGY OF THE BONAVISTA MAP AREA (NTS 2C/11)
The 2009 field survey located a radial dyke swarm, oriented toward the newly ...and rare volcanic rock
You mean this one......
http://www.nr.gov.nl.ca/mines&en/geosurvey/publications/CR2010/2010_Normore.pdf
" south central part of the map area"
note that liberty was taken to show where the approx. boundaries of the N. Lucky claim are on the map.. don't want any one to get all crazy and say that is not on the map
" south central part of the map area"(scroll down ad in the way)
GEOLOGY OF THE BONAVISTA MAP AREA (NTS 2C/11)
The 2009 field survey located a radial dyke swarm, oriented toward the newly ...and rare volcanic rock
You mean this one......
http://www.nr.gov.nl.ca/mines&en/geosurvey/publications/CR2010/2010_Normore.pdf
" south central part of the map area"
note that liberty was taken to show where the approx. boundaries of the N. Lucky claim are on the map.. don't want any one to get all crazy and say that is not on the map
Great work keeping everything straight....
KATX BVIG Claim The 1981 Falconbridge claim now the KATX BVIG Claim...with some of the names and places.....Bull Arm Volcanics....Red beds are common in association with the Bull Arm volcanics Along the western spine of the Bonavista Peninsula basaltic and rhyolitic volcanics of the Bull ArmFormation form basement to the Musgravetown Group. The Bull Arm is generally in fault contact with older Connecting Point Group that forms the cores of antiforms. Over an area extending eight kilometers northeast of Burgoynes Cove most ponds in the middle to upper Rocky Harbour Formation are anomalous in copper over an area 17 by 6 km. Limited soil sampling by Noranda picked a number of anomalies near Nut Cove and RockyPonds. (Refer to the Random Island 2C/4 NTS topographic for the location of these ponds.) Rock samples returned 2.17% Cu and 12 g/t Ag from hematite breccias. The silver content suggests SSC-type Red Bed Copper origin. Are these copper occurrences restricted only to veins and breccias and are they in basalts and /or Rocky Harbour Formation? Red beds are common in association with the Bull Arm volcanics and through large sections of the Rocky Harbour Formation south of Random Island. The presence and abundance of the red beds is important as the primary source of copper. A number of the occurrences and lake sediment anomalies are close to the basaltic basement and red beds. The prominence Dark laminated siltstones that are important at Blue Point occur repeatedly through the Crown Hill and Rocky Harbour Formations and provide a number of prospective targets. Adjacent coarse sandstones and conglomerates are also mineralized in some places. Also, fracture-controlled mineralization is common in most occurrences. The fractures may have played an important role in up-grading copper content, as seen in detailed
http://gis.geosurv.gov.nl.ca/geofilePDFS/ReceivedBatch13/NFLD_2900.pdf
Not everything just some of the things we did not know that they were looking for
page 79 is part a REE assay some of everything is there Ba numbers seem large
AL2O3 ? 13%
84 TI02 >1%
Samples taken within licence 9496M returned Cu values which ranged from 7 ppm (sample 13507) to 8,539 ppm (sample 20976). The samples were collected from fine grained, thinly laminated grey-green pyritic sandstone with chalcocite and malachite
disseminated along bedding. The unit is interpreted to be part of the Rocky Harbour Formation, and the copper occurrences and anomalies are found near red beds withinthe Rocky Harbour (Lane, 2004).
http://gis.geosurv.gov.nl.ca/geofilePDFS/ReceivedBatch13/NFLD_2900.pdf page 36
All the names are there Normore Tim Ken Jon Thorson....Clarenville Hotel
Page 104
17 by 6 km
of red beds with the basalts and in the overlying stratigraphy indicates sufficient “source rock” for copper. (Copper loosely attached to hematitic minerals would easily have been picked up and transported by oxidized, hyper saline formational fluids
Bull Arm Volcanics are not "new" just new to everyone else....
studies from rocks at Blue Point.
The 1981 Falconbridge claim now the KATX BVIG Claim...with some of the names and places.....Bull Arm Volcanics....Red beds are common in association with the Bull Arm volcanics Along the western spine of the Bonavista Peninsula basaltic and rhyolitic volcanics of the Bull ArmFormation form basement to the Musgravetown Group. The Bull Arm is generally in fault contact with older Connecting Point Group that forms the cores of antiforms. Over an area extending eight kilometers northeast of Burgoynes Cove most ponds in the middle to upper Rocky Harbour Formation are anomalous in copper over an area 17 by 6 km. Limited soil sampling by Noranda picked a number of anomalies near Nut Cove and RockyPonds. (Refer to the Random Island 2C/4 NTS topographic for the location of these ponds.) Rock samples returned 2.17% Cu and 12 g/t Ag from hematite breccias. The silver content suggests SSC-type Red Bed Copper origin. Are these copper occurrences restricted only to veins and breccias and are they in basalts and /or Rocky Harbour Formation? Red beds are common in association with the Bull Arm volcanics and through large sections of the Rocky Harbour Formation south of Random Island. The presence and abundance of the red beds is important as the primary source of copper. A number of the occurrences and lake sediment anomalies are close to the basaltic basement and red beds. The prominence Dark laminated siltstones that are important at Blue Point occur repeatedly through the Crown Hill and Rocky Harbour Formations and provide a number of prospective targets. Adjacent coarse sandstones and conglomerates are also mineralized in some places. Also, fracture-controlled mineralization is common in most occurrences. The fractures may have played an important role in up-grading copper content, as seen in detailed
http://gis.geosurv.gov.nl.ca/geofilePDFS/ReceivedBatch13/NFLD_2900.pdf
Samples taken within licence 9496M returned Cu values which ranged from 7 ppm (sample 13507) to 8,539 ppm (sample 20976). The samples were collected from fine grained, thinly laminated grey-green pyritic sandstone with chalcocite and malachite
disseminated along bedding. The unit is interpreted to be part of the Rocky Harbour Formation, and the copper occurrences and anomalies are found near red beds withinthe Rocky Harbour (Lane, 2004).
http://gis.geosurv.gov.nl.ca/geofilePDFS/ReceivedBatch13/NFLD_2900.pdf page 36
All the names are there Normore Tim Ken Jon Thorson....Clarenville Hotel
Page 104
17 by 6 km
of red beds with the basalts and in the overlying stratigraphy indicates sufficient “source rock” for copper. (Copper loosely attached to hematitic minerals would easily have been picked up and transported by oxidized, hyper saline formational fluids
Bull Arm Volcanics are not "new" just new to everyone else....
studies from rocks at Blue Point.
Done, glad to, Thanks, for all your post as well....
Vale invested $200 million ....in Argentia BonaVista and Argentia... both with a strong Vale connection
http://www.sudburyminingsolutions.com/articles/News/09-11-Vale-hydromet.asp
Quote:
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.
Quote:
The technology was pronounced technically and economically feasible by the end of 2008 and Vale began construction of the full-scale 50,000 tonne per year hydromet plant in 2009 at Long Harbour, 40 kilometres north of the demonstration plant.
Hydromet technologies have long been used to process nickel laterite ore and copper. Canadian miner Sherritt International Corp. operates a hydromet plant in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta that processes nickel and cobalt sulphide ore from its joint venture Moa operation in Cuba, but the Sherritt process wasn’t suitable for Newfoundland, said Stevens.
“What we’re doing isn’t done anywhere else
,
Quote:
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
.
The Rare Volcanic rocks in the Neoproterozoic Sedimentary Rocks the Bull Arm Volcanics very rare
(Bonavista and Argentia) Wonder what this had to do with the selection of the location of the Pilot Hydromet plant that Vale has already tested....on a site that use to be a Cornerstone claim....
http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/e11-045
Paleomagnetic study of the late Neoproterozoic Bull Arm and Crown Hill formations (Musgravetown Group) of eastern Newfoundland: implications for Avalonia and West Gondwana paleogeography
Published on the web 20 December 2011.
1This article is one of a series of papers published in CJES Special Issue: In honour of Ward Neale on the theme of Appalachian and Grenvillian geology.
Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2012, 49:(1) 308-327, 10.1139/e11-045
ABSTRACT
Abstract
Quote:
A paleomagnetic study of subaerial volcanic rocks and associated siltstones of the Ediacaran Bull Arm Formation in the Avalon Zone of Newfoundland revealed a stable bipolar, hematite-borne primary remanence supported by positive conglomerate, contact, and fold tests. Mean remanence directions in two distal areas (Bonavista and Argentia) are similar, indicating a low paleolatitude position of Avalonia at 570 Ma. Redbeds of the overlying 550 Ma Crown Hill Formation also carry a primary bipolar hematite-borne remanence with moderate inclination, indicating that Avalonia remained at low to medium paleolatitudes through the end of the Ediacaran. Combining our results with previously published paleomagnetic data of Avalonia suggests moderate-scale drift of Avalonia through low southern paleolatitudes through the latter half of the Ediacaran, providing a paleogeographic context for the development of the first complex metazoan life.
Avalon Copper on the BonaVista
The Rare Volcanic rocks in the Neoproterozoic 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....
[1/29/2012 7:53:51 PM] ShortonCash: b]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....
Avalon Copper on the BonaVista
The Rare Volcanic rocks in the Neoproterozoic 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....
Vale invested $200 million ....in Argentia BonaVista and Argentia... both with a strong Vale connection
http://www.sudburyminingsolutions.com/articles/News/09-11-Vale-hydromet.asp
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.
The technology was pronounced technically and economically feasible by the end of 2008 and Vale began construction of the full-scale 50,000 tonne per year hydromet plant in 2009 at Long Harbour, 40 kilometres north of the demonstration plant.
Hydromet technologies have long been used to process nickel laterite ore and copper. Canadian miner Sherritt International Corp. operates a hydromet plant in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta that processes nickel and cobalt sulphide ore from its joint venture Moa operation in Cuba, but the Sherritt process wasn’t suitable for Newfoundland, said Stevens.
“What we’re doing isn’t done anywhere else
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
The Rare Volcanic rocks in the Neoproterozoic Sedimentary Rocks the Bull Arm Volcanics very rare
(Bonavista and Argentia) Wonder what this had to do with the selection of the location of the Pilot Hydromet plant that Vale has already tested....on a site that use to be a Cornerstone claim....
Paleomagnetic study of the late Neoproterozoic Bull Arm and Crown Hill formations (Musgravetown Group) of eastern Newfoundland: implications for Avalonia and West Gondwana paleogeography
Abstract
A paleomagnetic study of subaerial volcanic rocks and associated siltstones of the Ediacaran Bull Arm Formation in the Avalon Zone of Newfoundland revealed a stable bipolar, hematite-borne primary remanence supported by positive conglomerate, contact, and fold tests. Mean remanence directions in two distal areas (Bonavista and Argentia) are similar, indicating a low paleolatitude position of Avalonia at 570 Ma. Redbeds of the overlying 550 Ma Crown Hill Formation also carry a primary bipolar hematite-borne remanence with moderate inclination, indicating that Avalonia remained at low to medium paleolatitudes through the end of the Ediacaran. Combining our results with previously published paleomagnetic data of Avalonia suggests moderate-scale drift of Avalonia through low southern paleolatitudes through the latter half of the Ediacaran, providing a paleogeographic context for the development of the first complex metazoan life.
Agree sticky that post...
Nice work Tink.....are you some kind of CEO...
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....The Love Cove group mentioned as the other location for dykes is Rusty Ridge a few miles away....
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....
Avalon Copper on the Bona Vista
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....rare dykes only in the Rocky Harbour Formation....Vale claimed the balance of the BonaVista and only kept the claims with the dykes....so it seems its more than a theory it Thorson Shakba...Vale been looking for for 8 years...the only other place the dykes are found is 2.5 miles away at the Love Cove Formation....Rusty Ridge....
See the report for more informatin 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....
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
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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 ...
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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...
It all comes together in the Normore, Hinchey, and Obrien reports
http://www.nr.gov.nl.ca/mines&en/geosurvey/publications/CR2010/2010_Normore.pdf
The the green colors of the map, the big head formation,and the purple band of mixtite, the wolfhead dyke and others, with the fault lines
Note the comment about the algal ( see next post about the close corelation between the aglae and copper and cobalt) in the delta from Vale's geo Joh Thorson....
Quote of Dr. Hinchey's abstract:from the Giant Ore Deposit Conference ... The eastern domain consists of the Neoproterozoic , St. John's and .... In April 2010, Cornerstone optioned its Red Cliff and Deer Harbour SSC properties located in eastern Newfoundland to Vale .(check the post results of the Cornerstone program very poor results).(That leaves). as the main focus of KATX is sediment-hosted copper mineralization when a ...
Neoproterozoic
Back to Normore Neoproterozoic Note which rock formation an the BonaVista are Neoproterozoic Note the green colors are the Neoproterozoic formation the Big head formation, the Stock Cove formation is the pink (see the Normore report for detail and photos...)
From the earlier Obrien reports, you can see the various Copper occurances
Notice the Copper and Cobalt and from the Blue Point Horizon which runs through the Bona Vista..
You can see Vale and KATX and the you can see KATX missed a bit and Vale covered....Their claim line runs to the right of the lake
http://www.nr.gov.nl.ca/nr/mines/geoscience/publications/currentresearch/2011/Normore-2011.pdf
Copper and Cobalt all comes togehter in the Normore Hinchey and Obrien reports
http://www.nr.gov.nl.ca/mines&en/geosurvey/publications/CR2010/2010_Normore.pdf
Notice the dykes
Photo of the dykes
Note the comment about the aglae from Thorson Vales Geo...
Quote of Dr. Hinchey's abstract: ... The eastern domain consists of the Neoproterozoic Conception, St. John's and .... In April 2010, Cornerstone optioned its Red Cliff and Deer Harbour SSC properties located in eastern Newfoundland to Vale ... as the main focus of KATX is sediment-hosted copper mineralization when a ...
Back to Normore
Notice the Copper and Cobalt
You can see Vale and KATX and the you can see KATX missed a bit and Vale covered....
From the Obrien Reports
http://www.nr.gov.nl.ca/nr/mines/geoscience/publications/currentresearch/2011/Normore-2011.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
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.
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
The Musgravetown Group in this map area also contains the prospective copper- bearing horizons mapped to the northeast in the
Volcaniclastics of the upper part of the Trinity and Bonavista map areas That North Lucky South Lucky and Rusty Ridge....
http://www.nr.gov.nl.ca/nr/mines/geoscience/publications/MRR_Posters/2011/Normore_Random_Island_2011.pdf
rocks of the Conception Group to the east. Stratigraphically above the Connecting Point Group is the
Musgravetown Group which contains shallow-marine to terrestrial sedimentary rocks separated by a thin volcanic unit. The
Musgravetown Group in this map area also contains the prospective copper- bearing horizons mapped to the northeast in the
Volcaniclastics of the upper part of the Trinity and Bonavista map areas.
Waiting on our Phd....(scroll down ad in way)
page 2
http://www.geology.wisc.edu/~pbrown/g515/cused.htm
slide 24 Number 3 Propecting Pits..... are exacavted through the soil overburden...to bedrock I case 1 the mineralised zone is detected in the pits...and its down dip projection is tested by drilling.... All sorts of new quarry pits on the Bona Vista may be we will not see drilling reports....step one is pits.
similar in style and setting to the
giant Olympic Dam deposit Tim Froude Cornerstone P Geo...2002 Nice work MTaylor....Vale has other mountain tops that look just like it on their website....
The assay are great,notice the supply of Fe and Mg
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suggest potential for a body of iron
oxide +/- base, precious and rare earth type mineralization, similar in style and setting to the
giant Olympic Dam deposit in Australia.
Olympic Dam and related deposits all occur within continental rift sequence rocks adjacent to
major structures. The South Princess Property is located within a continental extensional
environment within peralkaline rocks emplaced adjacent to a regional fault system (O’Brien,
1993). The presence of a large magnetic body that appears to be intrusive into the overlying rock
sequences that appear regionally altered, are variably pyritic and contain vein type fluorite
mineralization appears to suggest a magmatic origin for the mineralization
http://gis.geosurv.gov.nl.ca/geofilePDFS/ReceivedBatch19/NFLD_2779.pdf
It's not just all about the (CU) Copper....It's all the base metals... V, Co, Ag, Zn and Pb with the (Cu) Copper...all comes out in the hydromet process...See page 18 of the Hinchey report (link)..... and..... the paragraph from the abstract (below)...more than Copper
The same beds that have the the focus of the search for Copper have been a source of other minerals ( Co V Pb Ag Zn)
PAGE 18
http://www.nr.gov.nl.ca/nr/mines/geoscience/publications/currentresearch/2010/hinchey.pdf
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SEDIMENT-HOSTED STRATIFORM COPPER (SSC) Mineralization in Newfoundland.
http://www.nr.gov.nl.ca/nr/mines/geoscience/publications/MRR_Posters/2011/Projects%20Related%20to%20Base%20Metals%20Cu%20Zn%20Pb%20Ni%20Co.pdf
IOCG ( map is revised as of Oct 2011)
http://www.nr.gov.nl.ca/nr/mines/prospector/matty_mitchell/pdf/Prop%20for%20opt%20Map,%20Island,%20October,%202011.pdf
Note the pink dot across from the Smokin Joe Claim its in the green strip to the left
Below the Louli Hills claim to the North also a REE claim site.
Thats Rusty Rige, Kens Mountain and Shaylee....or West Princess when Cornerstone had it....
Now Its part to the 108 ? new claims add to the West side of Rusty Ridge
Thats for the first pic the second picture show go down to include the date of the map
Also note on it ...that this map is revised as of Oct 2011
[1/22/2012 10:35:51 PM] ShortonCash: Nice pink dot
IOCG ( map is revised as of Oct 2011)
http://www.nr.gov.nl.ca/nr/mines/prospector/matty_mitchell/pdf/Prop%20for%20opt%20Map,%20Island,%20October,%202011.pdf
Note the pink dot across from the Smokin Joe Claim its in the green strip to the left
Below the Louli Hills claim to the North also a REE claim site.
Thats Rusty Rige, Kens Mountain and Shaylee....or West Princess when Cornerstone had it....
Now Its part to the 108 ? new claims add to the West side of Rusty Ridge
Thats for the first pic the second picture show go down to include the date of the map
Also note on it ...that this map is revised as of Oct 2011
[1/22/2012 10:35:51 PM] ShortonCash: Nice pink dot