CRUNCH BASE - What am i thinking ?
Former Explorers and Consulting Firms, were contimplating what one of the minerals could lbe.
Instead of just pyrite, one suggested it could be biotite, since biotite can change to a chlorite green.
We do have
Pyrrhotite
Aresenopyrite
pyrite
All three of these can be associated to - nckel - Falcon Mindat - report shows there's even a pyrite that can contain nickel.
BIOTITE - can morph to vermiculite and chlorite
VERMICULITE - is a known nickel ore
Biotite is a common group of phyllosilicate minerals within the mica group, with the approximate chemical formula K AlSi O . It is primarily a solid-solution series between the iron-endmember annite, and the magnesium-endmember phlogopite; more aluminous end-members include siderophyllite and eastonite.
TECH TERMINOLOGY - SOLID SOLUTION -
In minerals, a solid solution refers to a combination of end-member minerals with the same chemical formula but with elements substituted in more than one atomic site. A solid solution is commonly observed in both silicate and non-silicate series of minerals.
IN SHORT - two mixings of minerals.
In solution or solid state - even crystal structures.
RECENT LAB RESEARCH - has identified nickel in - Serpentine ores + Chloric ores
PYRRHOTITE - has a sub species of, Pentlandite - another known species of - Nickel.
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It's alot of info - i know...
but if you read it enough - it'll sink in.
Breifly...there's some sort of ( pyrite species ) they're not sure of, in 622 page report.
They think it could be a Biotite.
Biotite can convert to, vermiculite and chlotite.
Both of these can harbor - nickel.
We also have Pyrrhotite and aresenopyrite - these too - can contain - nickel -
We have terms thrown around of - chlorite an aweful lot.
And... new research ( world ) has identified a new species of nickel in - sepentine + chlorite.
We can see photos of rocks from Mc D...
With characteristics of, sweating and bleed of green and pink hues.
And what appears as, green carbs ( stained ) in same colorful rock.
Former explorers - noticed an unusual anomaly with the - green chlorites.
They possessed a ferro signal like iron. There's iron in the chlorite.
Or should i say... i'll just keep it to - green solution.
Since it can't really be identified.
Solid solution, is a sharing and bonding of minerals.
My curisolity is.... could the labs have mixed nickel in a solution crystal form, due to the sharing of a silica aluminum crystal - since they would share the same crysatal structure ?
EXAMPLE - Nickel goes int osolution due to, lime and water acid reaction.
It bonds with the silica crystal.
Lab performs a spectrometry analysis - and only see's an aluminum / magnesium silica crystal.
Lab documents the silica, aluminum, magnesium content.
Nickel solution just got filed under - silica and aluminum content - ppm/%
Due to - sharing of similar crystal structures.
NOT TOO FAR FETCHED.
And... most of our Scadd assays were -
fire assays - only gold values.
And... nickel solution form is heat sensitive.
And... nickel solution could not be detected by XRF -
other 3rd party research on, vermiculite.
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What does all this point to ?
- we don't know what the - green solution / coloration realy is
- nor the pyrite form, could be biotite or any other species.
- there is a sweat occuring, causing lots of green coloration
- nickel is present in the ores - past explorer proof
- sweat colorations ( solution ) forms bonds with other minerals including silicates
- silicates crystals - also involve - aluminum and magnesium
= could mean a potential mica nickel went into solution creating green colorations
= bonded to another mineral ( silica or aluminum or magnesium
= nickel filed under one of the 3 - bonded forms since they morphed.
ANOTHER HUGE CLUE ?
I don't remember seeing any chlorite values in the assay report - 622 page -
With years and years of chatter on chlorite - in each press or report - one would tihnk they'd have assayed for chlorite to officially identifty it as - chlorite - right ?
I may have missed it... but i don't recall seeing it.
This would be quite significant if no chlorite assay was performed.
It would leave the green solution wide open for - other mineral possibilities.
Such as... nickel in a solution bleed bonded to another mineral.
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EXCERPT - former Scadding Explorer - 622 page report -
One of the other purposes of taking magnetic susceptibility readings through different lithologies was to determine the background values for each unit observed. It appears that the most magnetic unit is the olivine diabase with an average apparent magnetic susceptibility of about 60ams.
The chlorite breccia seems to be generally between 1 and 5ams for average grading chlorite breccia and up to 200ams locally in high grading spots with average high grade measured around 50ams. Quartzite, Quartzite Breccia and Carbonate Breccia units are generally below 1ams. This suggests that a geophysical magnetic survey may be able to predict zones of auriferous chlorite.
Structural Analysis by SRK Consulting ( PAGE - 20 of 622 ) PDF - 2011 -
Through the analysis done by SRK several observations were made: - Gold mineralization is associated with chlorite-ankerite-pyrite-pyrrhotite-quartz alteration. - Chloritic shear zones bound mineralization in the North Zone. - High grade gold mineralization in the North Zone is associated with biotite, pyrite, pyrrhotite and quartz. - In the South Zone, narrow high grade intervals occur dominantly along the margins of diabase dykes.
HERE'S THE - OTHER RESEARCH REPORT - NON ASSOCIATED
One type of intercalating reaction involves the hydrolysis of metal ions to form a mono-molecular metal hydroxide in the interlayer. This reaction produces a structure similar to chlorite. The transition metals of Mn 2+, Fe 2+, Co 2+, and Ni 2+ show similar intercalating behavior as more typical non-transition metals, such as Mg e§ or AP + (Brindley and Kao, 1980; Ohtsuka et al., 1990; Yamanaka and Brindley, 1978). Transition elements generate interesting physical properties, including two-dimensional magnetic effects (e.g., Takahashi et al., 1986, 1988).
Above 600~ where there are no reflections of higherorder, the interlayer structure probably has decomposed. In addition, the d-value at 1.15 nm at 600 d C - gradually decreases with increasing temperatures, and is -1.0 nm at 900 d C - HTXRD did not detect NiO in this temperature range. Moreover, the 001 peak of these heat-treated samples broadened with increasing Ni content in the interlayer. Therefore, although the Ni hydroxide is dehydroxylated, Nit probably exists in the interlayer as monomolecules. This result was consistent with the results reported by Ohtsuka et al. (1987), Fuda et al. (1987), and Yamanaka and Senda (1993). The d(001) and d(004)-values of NHVC-1M were significantly different at > 100 d C - perhaps because the interlayer water in NHVC-IM is removed at low temperatures and the interlayer structure is disordered at these temperatures (Figure 2). This is clear from the significant broadening of the reflections at 100 dC
LINK -
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TO ROUND IT OUT....
Sudbury's Nickel ores consist of....
pyrrhotite, pentlandite, chalcopyrite, pyrite and magnetite. Bornite is locally present in higher grade zones, while higher arsenic as arsenides characterises the South Range. The copper rich veins deep in the footwall are dominated by chalcopyrite and cubanite with lesser pentlandite, magnetite and pyrrhotite.
Cheers....
p.s.
so why didn't ( xxxxxx ) perform assays for, nickel, chromium, titanium, zirconium
since 2018 - 2019 forward on the Scadding mine and area ?
These extra mineral credits would certainly add to an over all - metal credit.
After all, if one has to pull the gold from ores, it would be handling all the other minerals in same ore -
I guess he was too busy performing inversions and designing race tracks.
wink.