Is Calm Before the Storm in VMS Country?
A6 ZONE
Not too far south of the potential vms area of interest at the calm before the storm zone pretium drilled an area that was favorable for the formation of eskay creek types of VMS deposits. If you look at the map at the link below you will be able to see its location and then gauge a rough idea of its distance from the calm before the storm zone. So when and if ken konkin can definitely determine the calm before the storm area is in vms country we can start thinking about the possibility of it being a part of a mineralized trend that includes the A6 zone.. I would guesstimate the A6 zone is about 10 kilometers from calm before the storm area... Well the A6 area of interest is already 2 kilometers long and open to the north ... That would aim it roughly in the direction of the calm before the storm zone...
https://teuton.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/TreatyEast-draft-06.pdf
https://www.pretivm.com/exploration/Near-mine-and-Regional-Exploration/default.aspx
The A6 Zone is located approximately 14 kilometers northeast of the Brucejack Mine. A prospecting and mapping program in 2018 outlined an area with stratigraphy consistent with a paleo-rift environment, favorable to the formation of Eskay Creek-style VMS systems. Drilling in 2019 included 17 drill holes totaling 8,340 meters and identified a buried rhyolite dome capped by a mudstone unit locally anomalous in arsenic and mercury. The rhyolite dome is up to 200 meters thick, at least 500 meters wide and 2 kilometers long, and remains open to the north and south. The rhyolite is intensely sericite altered, hosts pyrite stringer zones, and locally hosts anomalous copper and silver values. In two drill holes peripheral to the rhyolite, narrow intersections of high-grade silver and copper mineralization were found.
Drilling in 2020 included 19 drill holes totaling 11,883 meters, and the results continued to define a large hydrothermal system within an altered rhyolite dome. In West A6, Hole BR-092 intersected a 0.10-meter interval of massive pyrite mineralization. The massive pyrite was not anomalous for precious or base metals, indicating that the current drilling is still distal from a productive hydrothermal vent, requiring additional geophysics.
The pretium web page updates eliminated an interesting assay from the A6 zone. I wonder why?
However i dug it up out of a teuton press release from april of last year.
https://teuton.com/teuton-outlines-plans-for-2020-work/
Recently, Pretium has announced discovery of the “A6” zone located due south of the Treaty East property and has termed it “a potential Eskay Creek style volcanogenic massive sulphide (“VMS”) system”. Drilling by Pretium in 2019 intersected 2,890 grams per tonne silver (84.3 oz/ton silver), 0.95 grams per tonne gold, and 1.81% copper over 1.50 meters at 187.5m depth. The geological setting has been described as follows: “a buried rhyolite dome capped by a mudstone unit locally anomalous in arsenic and mercury. The rhyolite dome is up to 200 meters thick, at least 500 meters wide and 2 kilometers long, and remains open to the north and south. The rhyolite is intensely sericite altered, hosts pyrite stringer zones, and locally hosts anomalous copper and silver values.”