The Keno Hill Silver Camp is Canada’s second largest historical primary silver producer. The camp saw production from approximately 35 vein deposits between 1913 and 1989 producing over 217 million ounces of Silver. Alexco Resources Corp. is currently in the process of placing the Keno Hills Silver Camp into production
According to the Yukon Geological Survey (Minfile #105O 015) exploration began in 1974 where grid soil sampling and bulldozer trenching located more than 10 galena-bearing veins containing massive to semi-massive galena with high silver to lead ratios.
The best exposures were discovered in Zone 12 where a 0.3 to 1 m wide lens of massive galena assaying 3,774 g/t silver was exposed in a northeast-trending fault for a length of over 40 metres. The property changed hands in 1983 and from 1983 – 1986 Dawson Eldorado Mines Ltd. extracted 1125 tonnes of ore from surface producing 188,000 ounces of Silver.
The Inca property lies within the Tintina gold belt and shows a number of geological similarities to the Kino Hill Silver camp located approximately 180 km west. The mineralization occurs in a series of sub parallel high angle figure veins; in a shallow dipping vein developed within a thrust zone; and, in a poorly defined stockwork zone in sediments. Typically the veins are steeply dipping, narrow, tabular or splayed veins. Commonly these veins occur as sets of parallel and offset veins. Individual veins vary from centimetres up to more than 3 metres in stockwork zones. This area is known to have the largest polymetallic vein deposits in Canada which the Keno Hill district is situated on.
Gateau Property – Quebec, Canada
Otish Mining District
Tajiri has entered into an agreement to acquire from Otish Energy Inc. (TSXV: OEI) an undivided 80% interest in 279 mineral claims comprising approximately 14,144.46 hectares located in the Otish Basin mining district in Quebec, Canada.
The Gateau Group of properties is located in the western part of the Otish Basin and along its southern contact with the Archean basement rocks. The property consists of four (4) claim blocks: Gateau 1, Gateau 2, Gateau 3, and Gateau 4.
Gateau 1 and 2 lie within the Otish Basin and are surrounded by Ditem’s Otish Uranium property; Gateau 3 is at the southern edge of the Otish Basin adjacent to Cameco’s Camie River property; and Gateau 4 lies within the Otish Basin, east of Strateco’s Matoush property. As per news release dated May 24, 2011. Tajiri Resources is intending to conduct a detailed low-altitude, helicopter-borne geophysical survey over the Gateau property in its summer 2011 exploration program.
TajIrI Resources Corp. 1450 – 409 Granville St. Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 1T2
Tel 604.642.0115 | Fax 604.642.0116 | Toll Free 866.345.0115 |
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