AN IDEA ?Fortune describes their geology with,
felsics ( potassium ) which to me points to the - pink quartz / feldspars.
Fortune also describes their geology as.
Brecciated.
If one looks close enough.. .one will see ( chunks - shards - sharp angled small rocks )
with in the exposed rock. Most likely a fracture amongst the bungow with a quartz seem revealing other geology other than, irons. Though irons are seen as one moves outsdie the quartz.
HERE IS A BIRDS EYE VIEW OF THE - ANDREW STRIKE ZONE.
IT'S BIG - IT'S BEAUTIFUL... LONG STRIKE.
Notice something ?
It's littered with - lichen. ( all atop )
Drilling is expensive.
But... how fast could one quadron off a grid and collect a variety of lichen - perform special assaying that could detect - copper - cobalt - bismuth- uranium - moly - and of course, gold.
Thing is... cobalt is a bugger to detect.
One study i posted on another bullboard - reported that cobalt was hard to leach out - when using acid test leaching - it was the last to leach - which brings into play - if last to leach and lab personel rushes the leach process too quickly - the cobalt remians behind.
Hence - peroxide assaying and other means such as... polarized light detection.
Here's a beautful core specimen - Lot's going on in this core - chlorites - maybe argillites at right open face end - quartzs veining and well.. something darker looking that the quartz...
If one really expands the photo - there's this
brilliant royal blue that seems to correlate with the light grey veinlettes -
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THIS NEXT PHOTO - REVEALS ABER RESOURCES -
BLUE GREY - AND - GREEN CORES. Chlotite will cause the green hues.
BUT WHAT'S CAUSING THE BLUE GREY ?
https://scontent-yyz1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/118229394_866275300812774_5205709898387951248_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=lZS33YapC1sAX8yo42Z&_nc_ht=scontent-yyz1-1.xx&oh=00_AT-ZR90UAOTUnQmNIdp8sGC9Fqpo2geNLzzEiBTiGZDc3Q&oe=633C2744
IN THIS - HISTORICAL CORE RACK PHOTO - I can see distinct - blue swirls - in the bottom left - 2nd core rack.
There's another rack - only one - with really old disseminated cores.
Lots of irons.. but there's also a distinct blue tinge amongst the broken down irons.
I have a large laptop - i can really zoom in on photos...
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THIS LICHEN GROWING ON ROCK - IS QUITE INTERESTING - As we now know... lichen can ( uptake / absorb 0 minerals on thier host rock.
THIS LICHEN IS-
ORANGE. I've comeacross research papers on - uranium - that is orange.
URANIUM METAL IS GREY.... But with in the lichen... they have acids that assimilate the minerals - think of the lichen as a lab assayor - lol - their acids - couldthey convert a mineral to a lab assay color ?
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HERE'S ANOTHER SUPERB OUTCROP - LOTS OF LICHEN - LOTS OF GREYS -
DARK AND LIGHT... EXPAND THIS ONE - REALLY STUDY THE MINERALIZATION.
https://www.facebook.com/RoverMetals/photos/a.315172565923053/440611790045796
THIS NEXT PHOTO IS REALLY INTERESTING - IT SOLVED MY SUSPICION.... iF ONE QUICKLY LOOKS AT THE - FIRST PHOTO - BIRDS EYE - ENTIRE CLAIMS ...
YOU'LL SEE A BEAUTIFUL - LONG STRIKE - UPHEAVED LANDS - MAKING A RANGE.
I asked mysefl... could this range ever have folded ?
Doesn't look like it.. it moreso looks like it was just an upheave.
WHILE THIS PHOTO - DOES SHOW THE STRATIGRAPHY - DID FOLD -
AND CREATED A LENSE SEQUENCE - ONE CAN SEE THE BANDING OF LENSES.
Which may mean - if one is atop the - range - and finds a fissure of quartz ( seam ) it could very well be a seam that forms as a sandwich effect.
Which begs... how many of these seams could present ?
Quartz with all those greys ?
Why... i keep reminding myself of Fortunes - brecciated - cobalt ores.
Those fissure quartz seams would definitely break and become - brecciated upon range folding and placing itself on its side.
Trick here is... there's lots of lichen covering the entire - range.
Finding more - quartz seams - atop of range - and running - width wise - looking for severa lof these seams - that would run length wise - i guess the width orientation would be - SW TO NE
covering shortest width distances looking for each potential - seam.
I figure if one did find several seams - they'd run from top to bottom - legth wise if entire range
uplifted on its side. Covering the middle section... would most likely find best resuts.
Then track them...
A good metal detector might help -
scanning the ground looking for - no iron - could be a fast way to track the seams.
lighter signals than a heavy iron detection.
Yeah... i have one....lol
If one gets into the irons.. it never shuts up.
If outside of iron... silent.
Hnece... look ofr the silent zones - quartz seams.
https://www.facebook.com/RoverMetals/photos/a.315172565923053/424442094996099
IN THIS PHOTO - THE LICHEN CHANGES TO -
BLUIES - THIS IS A GOOD PHOTO
NO GREY, OR GREENS LICHEN...BUT BLUES... THIS IS A CERTAIN - GO CHECK IT AGAIN.
https://www.facebook.com/RoverMetals/photos/a.315172565923053/329910951115881
IN THIS PHOTO - Well... i've never met a miner with a white clean jacket - tease - yes... just teasing.
https://www.facebook.com/RoverMetals/photos/a.315172565923053/325282954912014
I LIKE THIS PHOTO - WHAT'S THAT SHINY METAL ? https://www.facebook.com/RoverMetals/photos/a.315172565923053/325282918245351
YUP... went through each of Rover's facebook photos - there's lots of iron up there.
One of the photos shoed very nice quartz and silvery mineralization - but... in the thick of the irons.
I stil lthink... using asimple metaldetector - run the unit across the width sectons looking for
quartz seams with - no iron - signals.... could be a very quick path the locating these markers under all the lichen. fast track.
Testing these outside of iron formations... along the range...
Looking for similar minerals as - Foruntes.
Keeping to or looking for the brecciated seams .
Sending a geologist up - that hates gold - and is into battery metals ...
Specifically copper, cobalt, bismuths...
I've always said... never send a gold miner on a mission ot find battery metals.
They'll stray... and Visa Versa.
Testing the lichen... different lichen coloration = could spell = different minerals - .
Retesting the historicla and recent cors for other minerals .
Type of assaying is iimperitve.
If Ray Mine ( half way in between Rover and Fortune ) had the copper, cobalt, bismuth, urnaium.... then... maybe outside this Rover iron formation exists the same mineralizations.
The only OTHER thing i can think of is ... reverting back to Aber resources - historical cores.
THERE'S IRON ON THE CORES - NO DOUBT.
Iron's can be seen - oxidizing ( brown, reds )
Yet... a distinct
BLUE HUE can still be seen to this day....
Which begs... if its not a hematite, or magnetite, irons...
What is making this blue oxidation ?
Aber... at time of drilling would not have seen a potential - cobalt or copper.
Which begs... did Aber only peform - gold - assaying ?
I'd love to grab some of those historical BLUE cores
have them... reassayed for cobalt, copper, bismuth.
Here's the historica lcores again - https://scontent-yyz1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/118229394_866275300812774_5205709898387951248_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=lZS33YapC1sAX8yo42Z&_nc_ht=scontent-yyz1-1.xx&oh=00_AT-ZR90UAOTUnQmNIdp8sGC9Fqpo2geNLzzEiBTiGZDc3Q&oe=633C2744
CAN -
COBALT - BE FOUND IN - MAGNETITE + HEMATITE ORES ?
YUP...
LINK -
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj2lKGyjPz5AhVkg4kEHZa0CAUQFnoECA8QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fpubs.usgs.gov%2Fpp%2F1802%2Ff%2Fpp1802f.pdf&usg=AOvVaw3L9dDJ0hqR0Jgknj7YQ6iK
Description - Their ore mineralogy is dominated by magnetite, hematite, chalcopyrite, bornite, and gold, with concentrations in some deposits of uraninite, bastnsite Wouldn't hurt to tests a few of
Abers - oxidized - historical cores - blues.... Maybe the seams is not where other minerals are at...
Maybe - selectively defined - hematite - magnetite - iron zones ?
Not the brown irons... but the hematites and magnestites...
IF.... other minerals are present.
IF cobalt or other were present...
pinpoint the former drill holes - test the lichen there...
Find same kind of lichen coloration elsewhere ?
Cheers.....