Post by
Wangotango67 on Sep 16, 2022 4:16am
TILLICUM MINE -
Oh My God....
Why chase the gold ?
Gold is found in the - skarn - ( clay/argillite/sulphide ) ensemblage.
Which ( might ) mean the mountain(s) thrusted up with the clay lowlands and reassembled itself, mixing the placer gold...amongst the - country rock.
Inside the mine i'm seeing serious sulphides, brecciated, fractured rocks. If the skarn in mixed in this, then... it's not a veined gold rather... foriegn gold brought in. Chasing the gold in the rock rock is like, needle in hay stack.
What should be targeted ?
The country rock for.... Silver, Sphalerite ( zinc ) Copper, lead.
This is the kind of mine one will find the zincs in.
It's in the right zip code.
And... go figure...
it's in the zone ( tad more westerly 0 but evenstil...
Many are on the hunt for zinc nearby.
EXCERPT - CHASING SKARN GOLD -
Native gold occurs within the skarn assemblages as 25-micron disseminations to over several millimeter diameter flakes within and along the margins of the quartz calc-silicate segregations.
TILLICUM - WHAT TYPE OF ORE BODY ?
Sulphides, Aresenopyrite ( cobalt ores ) Skarn ( not host )
Agillites ( greywakes + muds + clays ) i'm not seeing any granites or quartz so far in video...
There it is... sorry reading, watching Tillicum video, and writing...lol
Just came across the geology i was looking for and there it is....
High sulphide polymetallic mineralization occurs in the 2112 zone in a high angle crosscutting breccia. Alteration, consisting of strong silicification and calc-silicate replacement of wall rocks and breccia fragments is confined to the breccia zone. Sulphides in order of abundance, are pyrrhotite, sphalerite, galena and pyrite with minor chalcopyrite and arsenopyrite. These occur as blebs, lenses, stringers and massive accumulations. Sulphide content within the zone is highly variable but averaged in excess of 10%. Gold grades are significantly higher in areas of quartz stringer veining or high sulphide content.
PAGE - 41 -
https://www.mgxminerals.com/_files/ugd/b0543a_12db9a46ea224352a61f616d3a3b79a1.pdf
Remind me again... ?
What are we doing on Frenchman's Cap ?
MGX - should be doing only 2 things -
1 - reassay Driftwood
2- Back at Tillicum - assaying the cores for - Zinc - Cobalt -
This is a battery metals market.
Gold is nice.. but, one breath or whisper of - ZINC or COBALT...
There problem is solved.
Headshaker...
i don't get this junior....
Find the minerals what investors want...
That easy.
PAGE - 42 -
Gold values tend to be highly erratic but generally low.
Ettlinger and Ray (1989) report that whole-rock and trace element analyses of samples from one of the Heino-Money drill holes indicate at least two episodes of mineralization; the first being gold-rich and silver-poor, followed by a slightly younger episode of silver and lead-rich, gold-poor mineralization.
Gold is highly erratric - because it's not an original gold ore body.
Chunks of freegold is not host gold.
Treat the gold as - bonus mineral when found -
But.. .chase the host minerals...
Zinc, Lead, Silver, perhaps cobalt.
Chase the episode of - silver and lead rich.
Other minerals such as zinc and cobalt... won't be most likely follow suit.
New... Geologist - please.
Ugh....
PAGE - 42 - ( ZINC )
Silver Queen Zone This prospect, active in the 1930's, is silver-rich and gold-poor. It consists of skarn alteration and mineralization associated with feldspar porphyry sills intruded into impure calcareous metasedimentary rocks. Skarn minerals include quartz, tremolite-actinolite, clinozoisite, garnet, biotite and carbonate. Sulphides include pyrite, pyrrhotite, tetrahedrite, sphalerite and galena.
TIP ... ?
Aresenopyrite - can host cobalt in a bond.
Cobalt will hide itself in an arsenopyrite.
I'd make that bet and say... geo, disregarded the arsenopyrite.
wink.
This is why.... it's so important for - mega - assaying.
30 species minimum.
A smart junior will want to know every species of mineral - each are there for a reason.
And all have a greater purpose that allows one to fully understand the deposit.
Only seeking gold and silver with a 2 part aqua rega - is a waste of money.
One needs 4 part acid - searching for over 30 minerals to know what they're dealing with.
It's what i would do - what all juniors should be forced to do.
Investors sit for months... waiting for results - not good when assay's are chintz.
ONLY GOLD - CHECKED
In 1986 gold assays were determined by atomic absorption methods in the ‘on-site’ field laboratory operated by Esperanza, with the exception of underground development sample (i.e. back samples) assays, which were analysed by fire assay at Min-En Laboratories in North Vancouver, BC. Scanned drill logs are available with hand printed lithological and assay results; original assay certificates are not available (Dewonck, McClintock and Roberts, 1986).
ONLY GOLD CHECKED -
Rock chip samples were submitted to Eco-Tech Laboratories in Kamloops in 1996. Fire assays were used for gold and other elements by ICP methods using partial digestions (Addie, 1997). Scanned assay certificates are available for these samples.
SOMEONE WAS THINKING THIS TIME - ( again, commenting as i read )
In 2001, stream sediment samples and soil geochemical grids from the Northern Claims areas and Grizzly Zone were sent to ALS Chemex in North Vancouver for determination of 32 major and trace elements by ICP (Induced Coupled Argon Plasma) and gold by fire assay with atomic absorption finish (Carter, 2001). Scanned assay certificates are available for these select few samples
Now.... where are those 32 smaples - what was found ?
Better yet... if they have the historical cores....
Usean XRF and scan the cores looking for zincs, and cobalt, lead, copper, etc.....
Zincs as we now know.... can hide in many colors, so can, copper, and cobalt.
Some say, zinc is not transitional.. .but, i beg to differ.
Copper is and so is, cobalt....Master at hiding...
Find a geo that can't stand gold... but loves battery metals.. .
Then.. watch the difference in, success.
I love the Tillicum Claims.
I really do.
They just haven't been thoroughly explored.
The report ( won't mention engineering firm ) is the worst report i ever read.
No assay charts... hardly any intel was relayed.
This TAillicum mine ensemblage should have a - 300 - 400 page - write up.
My God... it has adits and tunnels...
VIDEO - TILLICUM MINE - ( superb cam shots of geology inside the mine )
I'm still shaking my head,... can't beleive no one really chased hte other minerals - only gold.
It's been explored and mined in a complete opposite fashion.
Gold is not host... host minerals should have been chased and gold treated as - bonus -
Underground mine - such can be explored year round.
Please reassay or Scan the cores with an XRF - for zinc and cobalt, and who knows what else
hides in those sulphides...
VIDEO LINK -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgV4KXr7UyE
Cheers....