LIvingston and more....Before shuttin' er down here for the weekend, just a couple things to complete the week with here. First,
a big thanks to all the informative posts by everyone that help in shedding some light as to not only the
potential here but also secure some great understanding as to what has been occuring withing the PM's, especially these last couple of days.
Also, a special thanks to Scottiepimps for dropping in to generously share whatever info he has that
relates to our holdings here and still yet today has continued to extend his hand in friendship to this
board by providing a few more tidbits on the Livingston area.
Scottie states.
Livingston is an interesting district. I ts got some impressive superlatives... largest nuggets of gold
anywhere in the Yukon and Red Mountain is the largest Molybdenum deposit in the Yukon. The placer
nuggets found in the Livingston district are multi-ounce, giving you a sense of the gold density of the
hard rock source of these placers - which could potentially be hundreds of grams per ton. Looks like
the motherlode is on or around the Livingston placer camp and potentially large enough to benefit all of
GSR, NTR and GPD.
The Big Salmon Range contains a number of placer gold bearingstreams (Bond and Church, 2006). The Livingstone
Creek placer camp containedthe most significant deposits, which produced $1 million in gold in the firstforty years
of activity (Bostock and Lees, 1938)
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Previous geological researchby Levson (1992) in the Livingstone camp area concluded that small tributaries oriented
transverse to the former direction of ice-flow were dominated by glacialdeposition rather than erosion.
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This permitted the preservation of pre-glacial placer deposits. Similar settings for placer gold were also noted
in glaciated areas near Mayo (LeBarge et al., 2002).
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While stream orientation withrespect to paleo ice-flow played a significant role in the Livingstone camp, other
known placer streams inthe Big Salmon Rangewere affected by ice-flow parallel to valleys. These include Dycer,
Iron,Evelyn and Brown creeksAll of these creeks were staked by GPD. (Bond and Church, 2006). The stratigraphy presentedearlier for Brown Creek provides evidence that the drainage contained a local alpineglacier during phase
1 of glaciation. Despite the active glacial processes in this drainage, a potentially economicplacer deposit has been
identified near the mouth of the creek. The placergold-bearing unit at Brown Creek is not a pre-glacial deposit, but
rather a boulder dominatedalluvium that was deposited in response to significant down-cutting followingthe
glaciation.
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Similarly, a drop in base-level in Sidney Creekcaused Iron Creek to cut a canyon at its mouth through thick glacial
drift inthe valley bottom. This undoubtedly contributed to the value of the placer depositby reconcentrating placer
gold onto a new bedrock surface. Future placerdiscoveries on the east side of the BigSalmon Rangemay occur
where similar post-glacial erosion has taken place.
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Areas affected by meltwatererosion are easily identified by the abundant bedrock canyons in the valley bottoms
.Basins that escaped themeltwater erosion should have a component of the glacial stratigraphy preservedin
the valley bottom. A stratigraphy similar to that described by Levson(1992) for the Livingstone placer camp
would be of particular significance forpotential placer exploration.
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The processes of erosion anddeposition would have been enhanced because the ice was thinner and more
easilydirected by the underlying topography. The glacier dynamics may have alsovaried on either side of the
BigSalmon Range. On the east side of therange, the ice was flowing up-valley and therefore may have flowed
with less energy compared to the western valleys that contained down-valley flowingglaciers. The morevigorous
ice-flow in the western valleys likely increased erosion of the bedrock.However, the increasedflow would also
have reduced the thickness of the glaciers, and therefore the areaexposed to erosion. Theslower ice-flow on
the eastern side of the range may have increased glacial depositionin this area, resulting in greater drift
thicknesses.
I suggest that if Scottie is shy any dry powder at this time, that a few of us pull together some extra
shares hiding in our drawers and offer them up in friendship to see his continual participation on
this board.......<grin>
Have a great weekend all!