Why place so much emphasis on these forms of rocks ?
Because nickel can pair with these green chlorite rock groups.
As mentioned before -
Inomin has a magnesium depoist in B.C..
As i research all the more, it's becoming evident there's a strong correlation to, magnesium, chromium, with nickel.
In Inomin's situation... a sulphide nickel amongst the magnesium also has,
nickel in the serpentines.
What did Inomin use to detect the nickel hidden in solid green serpentine ?
SGS Minerals Services of Burnaby, BC was chosen to analyze the core samples. Samples were dried, crushed, split, and pulverized prior to analyses. Multi-element analyses was completed using
SGS’s GE-ICP90A50 method which is a 29 element package using a
sodium peroxide digestion with an ICP-AES finish. This package was chosen specifically to
discriminate sulphide nickel from silicate nickels generally found in olivines. Nickel mineralization at Beaver is associated with shallow dipping ultramafic rocks. Preliminary metallurgical tests conducted by SGS Canada Inc. demonstrated that 90% of the nickel is in the form of nickel sulphide minerals heazlewoodite and pentlandite, with the
remaining found in serpentine minerals. There you have it...
Nickel bonded to Serpentines.
Green colored rocks.
The image below reminds me of, Feldspar quartz - and it appears the chlorite replaced the
potassium, and look what happens = green and blues. The presence of nickel, some kept to sulphide while portions of nickel converted to - serpentine / olivine.
Click image - open in new window - analyze the rock.
Interesting specimen from Inomin.
So yeah....
BMK Scadding area has the magnesium, the serpentines, we do have nickel at Scadding, and good ppm of chromium.
What we did have was... good assay testing on the ores like the process mentioned above to
look for hidden nickel in - serpentines/chlorites.
Would be ideal to check for all 3 minerals in the chlorites -
nickel
chromium
copper
Cheers....