Ken still remembered me from my past inquiries years ago.
He replied to my original e-mail and welcomed me back into the fold. He said that a lot of things have changed since we last chatted. He mentioned that he looks forward to the upcoming drilling campaign in 2023, once the last tranche of the new financing is finally complete!
But the jist of his comment was that Rockcliff is working hard to increase the critical mass of our anchor deposits and explore in the hope of finding the next huge deposit, in Snow Lake!
I guess that he expects to find it before Hudbay. The race is on!
I need to have a better understanding of the VMS deposits, so I have now, forwarded a second e-mail.
I hope he has the time to reply, but we will see.
This is what I asked:
"Hi Ken:
I have a few questions for you, if you have the time to answer: I will refer you to the two VMS diagrams that I copied and pasted below.
https://www.911metallurgist.com/blog/vms-volcanogenic-massive-sulphide-deposits-ore-mineralization At Talbot we have this massive horizontal, 1 km sized conductive plate, located down deep about 1 km in depth. Presumably, it may consist, mainly of zinc.
Since it is flat, it may not have been deformed. There are down dipping upper plates located between this level and the surface. They may have been products of deformation.
But if they are not, could they be remnants of a later volcanic cone formation, that was younger in nature, but more recently eroded away? If so, then I would expect that the drilling, might have contacted mafic rock, indicative of lava flows, later in the depositional time frame, of the whole deposit.
So could Talbot represent a series, of contact depositions with seawater, as volcanic action continued to layer, over larger periods of time?
Presumably the underlying heat source would had to have been, a long lasting event.
So would the down dipping plates initially encountered by drilling, be representative of a later remnant, consisting of a younger, copper enriched, stringer zone form of deposition?
If that is the case, then presumably similar copper/gold enriched, stringer zones, of a much larger size, might be found below the massive plate, that geophysics, discovered at Talbot?
I am not a geologist, so I hope that you aren't laughing at my conjecture.
But if this is the case and no geologic processes, mechanically or hydrothermally, altered the deposition at Talbot, would this be a reasonable assumption to make?
One volcanic cone might have been deposited, one on top of another, with the uppermost zone of zinc and iron deposition, already, mostly eroded away?
Second question:
At Hudbay's Pen and Rockcliff Penex deposit, could we be looking at the remnants of a severe structural deformation, as indicated in the second diagram, located below?
If so, then could we expect that the Penex down plate of zinc could be connected to a very much deeper cap of zinc, but also to a stock work, stringer zone, where we might also expect to find a significant copper and gold enriched deposition?
It is my understanding that copper and gold falls out of high heat, molten solutions first, at a much lower temperature than zinc, which accounts for the specific nature of the mineralization in these VMS deposits.
If VMS deposits are scattered like this throughout Snow Lake, it must be difficult to find, these higher value, copper gold enriched, stringer zones! But presumably every VMS deposit might have one?
Or perhaps, with some VMS deposits, that may have been subjected to severe deformation, much of the copper zone, may have been eroded away, with only some zinc remnants, still remaining?
Thirdly, I do not understand the nature of the Bur deposit. Apparently it is not VMS in origin?
Is it, some remnant of some very high metamorphism, with its exact origin, somewhat uncertain?
I am confident that Snow Lake represents tremendous value to Rockcliff shareholders, but it is a pity that others don't!
2 cent shares are a calamity for the longs who have been holding, for so long. I know that I have taken advantage of this situation, because I bought in so cheaply! But I didn't force anyone to sell!
Keep on working in your effort to find some financing, to go it alone, without Hudbay, as a joint venture partner. This is important!
Hudbay is an unreliable partner!
And, It does appear to me, that Hudbay, in Snow Lake, simply has too much ore, still left to mill!
They might lease the mill at Bucky Lake, but no one can make them do anything at all, even it might be in their best interest, to do so!
They will be busy for many more years to come, with what they already, have left to mine!
Anyway Ken, good luck and enjoy the rest of your holiday, until the drilling starts again!
All the best,
Yours truly, (Java)