Is Zenyatta Just a Different Type of FLAKE GRAPHITE Deposit?Quite interesting IMO. The promo that GRAMPS posted implies that the Professor found Albany to be "completely different to common flake graphite".
Yet, in Zenyatta's official news release it states the professor's metalurgical findings of "Coarse FLAKE Graphite".
So, Albany is completely different to common FLAKE graphite, yet contains coarse flake graphite. Hmmmm, isn't that an interesting contrast, lol.
Can we conclude that Albany is in fact a non-common Flake graphite deposit? That's what the two articles seem to point out is it not?
Here they are again with the links:
https://www.stockhouse.com/companies/bullboard/v.zen/zenyatta-ventures-ltd/2?threadid=21745353
Eveleigh and his team sent off samples to the local university and within a few weeks, they received results that forced them to rethink their entire company strategy.
The professor told them they had found “the rarest form of graphite known to man”. It was a “volcanic setting; vein or hydrothermal style” kind of graphite found in meteorites and the earth’s mantle – completely different to common flake graphite
https://www.zenyatta.ca/article/press-release-185.asp
Zenyatta Ventures; University Study Shows Positive Results from Graphite Deposit; Confirms Presence of Coarse Flake Graphite
Thunder Bay, ON – 27 February 2012 – Zenyatta Ventures Ltd. (“Zenyatta” or “Company”) (TSXV : ZEN) is pleased to provide results from an independent mineralogical study of drill core samples from the newly discovered Albany Graphite Deposit located near Hearst in north-eastern Ontario. The following significant observations were made:
• Flake sizes of coarse, medium and fine ranging from 50 to greater than 300 microns (-270 to +40 mesh size)
• Characterized as a magmatic hydrothermal style of graphite mineralization (similar to the high value Sri Lankan type deposits)
• Graphite represents essentially all of the total reported Carbon assay values (i.e. Carbon related to carbonate is less than 1%)
Aubrey Eveleigh, President and CEO stated “Zenyatta management considers these latest results to be very important, especially the range in flake size, which includes the high value coarse flake. Coarse flake graphite is greater than 175 microns (or +80 mesh) in size. Flake size and purity are key parameters in establishing the potential value and marketability of any graphite product derived from the Albany Graphite Deposit. The Company is planning to conduct metallurgical testing of the graphite zones and carry out a more aggressive drilling campaign to determine the full extent of the deposit”.
The mineralogical report was prepared by Dr. Andrew Conly, Ph.D. of Lakehead University Mineralogy and Experimental Laboratory (“LUMINX”) in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The petrographic observations were from four samples of the graphite-rich breccia in zone #2 of drill hole Z11-4F1.