RE:Updated website re. Fancamp-Embry Properties ? Hey Easycoder,
They seem to have loaded new/updated web pages for most of the properties. Some of the new info and maps look very informative. I might post my observations once I have had the chance to look at them in more detail at some point his week.
Also, though I`m not sure as yet, I might post something on skarns. This type of deposit can be large or small, but they are usually multi-metal deposits (especially copper, gold, zinc and lead), and can be rich. Alexandria`s Cadillac Break land package has provided proof of a number of small skarns in the past, but larger skarns on the property are also possible.
Skarns are often found at the contact zone of an intrusive. Skarn environments usually have alterations with heavy magnetite and calc-silicates in the contact area. Alexandria`s Western Cadillac area are showing prominent ingrediences for skarns. From the last NR:
``Widespread alteration occurs in and around two felsic or alkalic intrusions, over much of the western half of the Company’s 35 km (25 mile) long Cadillac Break Property package near Val d’Or, Quebec. This alteration, which is dominated by magnetite and calc-silicates, is also associated with gold, copper, molybdenum and base metal mines, occurrences and prospects, many of which are distributed within the contact zones around the intrusions.``
As mentioned, there have been small skarns on the property in the past. I read somewhere that Akasaba Main has demonstrated skarns. There was a small past producing mine called Orenada 1, located right next to the past producing Mid-Canada Mine, which (I vaguely recalled reading in a technical report) had a skarn within the deposit. Then there is the Hogg-Zone 3-Zone 3 South area. Alexis Minerals issued drill results on January 26, 2005 about 2 small skarns located in this area. Alexis didn`t do any further work and released the option on the properties due to focusing 100% of production from Lac Herbin. Alexandria then purchased the properties 100%.
As such, this small deposit was never brought into 43-101 resource, but provides solid proof of skarn deposits on the property at large.
From the Alexis NR
``New significant assay results were returned in two types of Skarn mineralization and include:
Epidote-magnetite Skarn zones:
* 2.49 g/t Au and 0.53% Cu over 21.0 m (hole 288, 168.0 to 189.0 m);
including 9.29 g/t Au and 1.79% Cu over 1.8 m (hole 288, 172.5 to 174.3 m);
and 4.43 g/t Au and 0.73% Cu over 3.0 m (hole 288, 186.0 to189.0 m);
* 1.67 g/t Au and 0.30% Cu over 29.1 m (hole 290, 178.5 to 207.6 m)
including 17.00 g/t Au and 0.62% Cu over 1.7 m (hole 290, 192.0 to 193.7 m);
* 3.04 g/t Au and 0.17% Cu over 16.2m (hole 293, 65.2 to 81.4 m);
including 7.57 g/t Au and 0.42% Cu over 4.5 m (hole 293, 69.0 to 73.5 m)
Silica-hematite Skarn zones:
* 6.60 g/t Au and 1.32% Cu over 1.0 m (hole 276, 86.7 to 87.7 m);
* 3.77 g/t Au and 0.16% Cu over 6.5 m (hole 286, 28.0 to 34.5 m); including 16.81 g/t Au and 0.68% Cu over 1.1 m (hole 286, 28.0 to 29.1 m);
* 6.07 g/t Au over 3.0 m (hole 293, from 88.5 to 91.5 m).
A large volume of low grade to moderately anomalous gold, copper and silver values were returned in 19 of the 27 holes from the skarn setting.``
I guess I`m not going to bother making a separate post on skarns, as I wrote so much about it here.
Also, I noticed they now have a May 15`15 version of the Corp Presentation on the website.