RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:$48 Million Investment by Eric Sprott
Retiredgeo wrote: The similarities between Queensway North and Fosterville are genetic and textural. The nitty gritty details of fault patterns, gold mineralization and host rocks are going to be deposit specific. It is important not to overanalyze or overcompare.
There is a theory that the gold might originate in seafloor volcanic/plutonic rocks (basalt and gabbro) which got deeply buried by the continental collision. If true, all of that is going to be some 25 kilometres down now. That is the only connection between Queesway and gabbros that I can think of. The host rocks in central Newfoundland are the deep seafloor muds and slope debris flows (greywacke) of the Iapetus ocean.
There's your answer ike. The gabbros are down deep. Thanks rediredgeo. I'll get a few drinks into the Rock Doctor tonight and get him going on the gabbros. I know back in the Voiseys Bay days he was going on about the olivine gabbros and pendlandtite (nickel) up in Labrador. Lol