Alberta Star appoints Mumin as Contact Lake consultant
2005-06-21 14:46 ET - News Release
Mr. Tim Coupland reports
Alberta Star Development Corp. has appointed Dr. Hamid Mumin, PhD, PEng, professor of geology at Brandon University, as senior consulting geologist for Alberta Star on the Contact Lake iron oxide, copper, gold, silver and uranium project located in Canada's Northwest Territories. Dr. Mumin will act as senior consulting geologist for the company and will provide additional strategic expertise in planning this summer's ground exploration, mapping, sampling and geophysics and locating high-priority targets for drilling on the company's Contact Lake iron oxide, copper, gold, silver and uranium property.
Dr. Mumin graduated from geoengineering at the University of Toronto, specializing in mineral exploration. He completed an MASc in economic geology while studying volcanogenic massive sulphide deposits at Sturgeon Lake, Ont. He completed his doctorate and postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Western Ontario, examining gold deposits along the Ashanti gold belt in Ghana and conducting studies on the origin and distribution of gold in lode deposits at Carlin. Dr. Mumin has worked as a mine, exploration and research geologist for Noranda at Sturgeon Lake. Dr. Mumim was the chief geologist and site manager during the exploration and feasibility stages of the successful Bogosu gold mine in the Ashanti gold belt. Dr. Mumin joined Brandon University in 1995 and teaches mineral deposits, exploration and mining geology, mineralogy, geochemistry, tectonics, and field geology. Dr. Mumin has participated in the discovery of iron oxide, copper, gold and polymetallic deposits in the Northwest Territories. Dr. Mumin is a professional engineer, Manitoba director to the Canadian Council of Professional Geoscientists, member of the Manitoba exploration liaison committee, and a member of several Canadian and international professional societies.
Contact Lake iron oxide copper/gold/silver uranium project
The Contact Lake claim block now consists of 11 contiguous claims located five kilometres southeast of Port Radium on the east side of Great Bear Lake and 423 miles north of the city of Yellowknife, and consists of 5,835.59 hectares (14,420.82 acres). The Contact Lake project is located five kilometres from two past producing silver and uranium mines, the Echo Bay mine (produced 23,779,178 ounces of silver) and the Port Radium Eldorado mine (produced 15 million pounds of uranium and eight million ounces of silver). The Contact Lake mine situated on the company's property is a former past producer of silver and high-grade uranium. The Contact Lake claim block and surrounding area cover extensive alteration zones, including large mineralized gossans that can be traced for over one kilometre in length and over 200 metres in width. This area has been underexplored and has lacked advanced exploration geophysics. The Contact Lake mineral belt is approximately 15 kilometres long. This is the northern extension of the same mineral belt that hosts Fortune Minerals' Nico gold-cobalt-bismuth deposit. These large-scale deposits are of a class that includes the two-billion-tonne Olympic Dam iron oxide, copper, gold, silver, REE and uranium deposit. The continuing search for iron oxide copper, gold, silver and uranium deposits has gained momentum in Canadian mineral exploration due to their large size potential and polymetallic grades of mineralization, including sizable amounts of uranium.
