RE: When is the dump?Dump will come in two or three weeks and the pop will come in about 2 months. IMO
Next week the gold price should go higher. This stock will go to a dollar as that is less than my estimated value.
Question????? Where did this high grade gold come from?
Answer ===== Down dip from the underground deposits of course. They haven't drilled into that yet. It will likely be a very high grade sulphur type deposit.
Started buying this stock only a month ago and not an expert, just like the story.
This was posted by you earlier this week
you say you are no expert but you make quite a technical statement (see the bold sentence)
if you would have done a little research you would have known there is absolutely no sulphur mineralization anywhere at the Copperstone site nor anywhere in the area see the excerpt i have posted from the
Geologic Report for the Copperstone Gold Property
you can find the whole thing on the BZA website if you would like to get properly informed
"Dump will come in two or three weeks and the pop will come in about 2 months. IMO
Next week the gold price should go higher. This stock will go to a dollar as that is less than my estimated value.
Question????? Where did this high grade gold come from?
Answer ===== Down dip from the underground deposits of course. They haven't drilled into that yet. It will likely be a very high grade sulphur type deposit.
Started buying this stock only a month ago and not an expert, just like the story."
8.6 Other Elements
Production records for the Copperstone Mine indicate a relatively high gold-to-silver ratio. Historically,
the silver content in the recovered doré averaged about 3.0%, relative to gold (Ackermann, 1998). Traceelement analyses by ICP during the 1998 drilling by Asia indicated minor amounts (not of economic
interest) of silver at Copperstone. No significant quantities of arsenic, antimony, mercury or other
deleterious elements were noted, perhaps due to the lack of sulfide minerals. No significant carbon
minerals were observed at Copperstone. The gold mineralization on the property often has high levels of
Fe and Mn due to the common association with massive or semi massive Fe-oxide and Mn-oxides. Ba
was commonly enriched in areas of gold mineralization in the pit due to the local presence of barite.
Elevated barium trace element values also occur in the C-Zone and D-Zone.
Geologic Report for the Copperstone Gold Property
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8.0 MINERALIZATION
8.1 Mineralized zones
RYO identified four mineralized zones below the elevation of the base of the pit, including the C- and
D-Zones (refer back to Figure 5.2). All of these zones were interpreted as occurring along the
Copperstone Fault (Royal Oak, 1998). More detailed geological study by Asia Minerals in C- and DZones
largely confirms this interpretation. Significant mineralization at the down dip fringe of the Royal
Oak C-Zone has been reclassified as the Hanging Wall Zone. However, it is possible that the
Copperstone Fault, or a splay off the fault, penetrates the quartz latite and controls this mineralization.
Two D-Zone intervals in the extreme NW end of the open pit have been re-interpreted as a conjugate
west-dipping structure (McCartney, 1999).
Additional mineralization occurs along NW trending amethyst-quartz-specular hematite veins cutting the
quartz latite in the open pit area. These structures locally contain encapsulated native gold. The
mineralization may be partly controlled by the NW fault set mentioned above.
8.2 Alteration
In general, alteration consists of fracture/open space fillings and replacements of hematite along with
silica, chrysocolla, malachite, calcite, siderite, manganese oxides, adularia, sericite, and magnetite.
Barite and fluorite are more abundant in the SE end of the pit, and a zonation of gangue minerals is
suggested. Alteration varies with host rock type as described below.
The oldest Miocene basalt flows are cut by mineralized amethyst-quartz-specularite veins to the SW of
the pit.
Hematization is well developed in the monolithic sedimentary breccia unit, as are quartz and specularite
veins and open space fillings. Significant gold mineralization often occurs in this unit where it forms the
hanging wall of the Copperstone fault.
The quartz latite porphyry contains brecciated and mineralized intervals about 15 meters thick where cut
by the Copperstone Fault in the central and southern parts of the pit. Sericite-silica alteration occurs as
bleached zones in the quartz latite.
In the D-Zone, the carbonate metasedimentary unit contains intervals of massive specular hematite +/-
manganese oxide and chrysocolla. Nodular replacement textures consisting of specularite clots in
carbonate are common. The nodular replacements are transitional to the semi-massive and massive Feoxide
zones. Where the carbonate is brecciated, banded open space fillings of quartz-specularite occur.
Open space fillings of fluorite, barite, siderite and calcite have also been observed (Salem, 1993). The
mineralization and brecciation observed in the unit is related to the Copperstone Fault, which is inferred
on the basis of gouge and micro-breccia textures often observed in the sediments or the overlying
volcanics within a few feet of the contact.
The quartzite metasedimentary unit is characterized by vein and stockwork stringer mineralization,
rather than by the massive replacement and open space fill type typical of the carbonate unit.