STRATBOUND - COPPER / SILVERCan i take a poke at reclassifying this deposit ?
Some may disagree, with tihs post, but i implore you to rethink this Bul lRiver, deposit,
STRATABOUND DEPOSITS
Form in layering - shalebeds, formed by oceanic involvement creating several stratography layers of -distinct banding / bedding.
The infamous Kupfer cdopper depost, in Germany is a stratabound depoist - that actually stretches out into surrounding nearby countires Yeah... very large depsoit.
In South America, we can also find - stratabound copper / silver depsoits.
Not much is spoken about stratabound deposits in, Norrth America, let alone Canada.
Yet... if one truly studies the mountain cordilleras in the Golden Trianlge, there are some ranges that have exposed faces that elude to - uplifted stratabound depsoits.
What about southern B.C. ?
Ha.... Bravehearts Bull River deposit dusps the eastern cordillera.
So let's take another look at this Bull Rivder deposit and reexamine the mountain rangers in the back drop pto see if there are any tel ltale signs of, stratabound signs.
It's actually quite important to identify and properly label a deposit - it only aides in the future chasing of the minerals if the depsoit is fully understood.
This is exact opposite to the " Majors " deposits whereas, they love the place rcopper deposits that concentrated itself into valley's sandwiched between mountai nranges. Low grade - easy pickingsa - large volume mining.
I'll thorw a few pics up - descibe what i'm seeing - new perspective.
Very first pic - mine site - i can see a definite steatabound formation right at surface.
Sedimentry bandsing ( 2 showings ) folding effect onto each other. This is an important
feature and notating the angle inwhich the folding is occuring allows one to know the directional movement of sediment bed movements.
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This picutre is the backdrop showing the nearby mountains...
I cna clearly see the distict stratography of the - sedimentry banding layers with in the mountains - a clear picture of sediemntry formation.
Capped peakes most likely ( greywacke reweleded clays - with a 2 fold effect happening -
sediemntry layering.- vertical bandings
siesmic shift controting the stratography uplifting, shifting the stratabound sediments.
One could almost align the Bul lriver depoist with one of the arm branches coming off of the mountain. bull river is perhaps an tension of these stringer arm formations. Drker hues - no not the shaowing of shades but the minerology seen in the rerroded oxides.
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Below grade with in mine -
Here i see distinct shale banding formations.
Most likely clay based - perhaps out of the sweet zone for minerlaizations.
Distinct shales - uprighted -proving the stratabound sediments were altered - shifted.
Not sure what depth this pic was taken ... but if this depoist can be redifined as a stratabound depoist then - its simply a matter of knowing which strata layers harbor the minerlas.
I would pitch the hydrotherma lminerlaization and take a closer look at simple stratabound and then - pull forward the underground mine workings - quickly analyze the dril lcore data looking for those - key dril ldepths - that might plot a pattern that identifies - stratabound formation. Then... it would be just a matter of, focusing on each stratabound depth thats mineralized. If we analyze the current underground workings - i can see a pattern of weaker minerlaization at each end - whereas - the mine might grow in size if aligned with the stringer arms coming off of the ,munttans - keeping mind the seismic movement along with the stratabound layering.
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Backdrop mountain peakes most likely greywacke clays
Stratabound sediments below
Siesmic shift controrting the sediments along with uplift
Despoist at base of mountains would most likely have same disposition as statography of
mountains above -
A different take on Bull RIver.
Tke it, Leave it, Throw it away.
in my opinion .... too many geologists have bought into hydrothermal depsoits and should let the lay of the land speak the obvious.
Lots of mountains in b.c. show distinct sedimentry banding .
Could hydrotherma l fluids intruded into the sedimentry banding.
OF COURSE.
But... it is myt beleif,
If there are crystals in clays, and if theres a watershed, along with crystals and then throw in telluric currents that are inherent with in the earths xrust - ytou then have a perfect recipe to aide in crystal growth - that might throw a geologist off the trail thinking geothermal when it might be simple crystal growth basdedd on - water + electrical currents.
Cheers....
p.s.
if braveheart fond the magic pitch of these strataform sediments and if they correlated with the dril lcore logs it would be easy to track the remaining ore bodies - could be as simple as runing right up the mountain sides -
drill data would tell all.
plotting the intercepts would identify what is below - if they are into a stratabound bed and could be several beds with clay shales separating each stratbound formation.