PURPLE - DRAGONYa know that purple showing that i found in satalite photo - you know, the one that looks like a dragon and has dark grey with hues of blushing pinks or purple with in ?
The one... that is on strike with MGX's western claims ?
The one that has a road right beside the purple dragon, with easy access wirth trail that allows one to walk right to the purple dragon ?
Ya that one.... the one .
tease.
YOU'LL NEVER GUESS - WHAT I FOUND !!!
I'm checking the dragon out again, looking for the hues of pink blush - purple hues...
And... my eyes stray to above the deposit...
I said what the hell is that ?
Just above this open face showing is a dark patch that looks like an open entry to an old mine.
So... off searching i go... and sure enough it is a mine.
In fact... last eve i noticed the road is called " giant mine road ".
So what did they mine at the giant mine ?
SILVER in slate ores surrounded by, limestones.
Ha.
It gets better.... hang on...
There copper and a few other minerals...
what are the other minerals ?
A grey mineral - that was thought ot be some sort of copper...
BUT THEY'RE NOT SURE.
IT'S DIFFERENT - IT'S - MAUVE - IN COLOR.
BOOM.
Now... with all the reports i've readover the years...
I hace come across several rpeorts whereas past miners have come across a silver metal...
that is mauve or pink...
Guess what it usually is ?
COBALT.
What were threy mining in that Giant Mine that enters the same open face dragon ore body ?
SILVER.
What runs with silver, copper, galena ?
COBALT
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Not saying it is - Cobalt... but i've come across many papers with similar storylines whereas they couldn't identify the mineral, and some ended up being identified as cobalt.
Cobalt is a grey metal. But also transitions to several other states.
Copper does too but it doens't turn pink or purple...lol
Cobalt can transition to many formats - metal, silicate, carbonate, and hydroxide, coreacting and releasing colors.
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ISN'T THIS AMAZING ....
WHAT ONE CAN FIND - ONLINE - RESEARCHING ?
So... lil junior.....
How about ( testing ) some of those pink, blue, purple, green, colored dolos.
And this time.. .don't throw out the impurities. wink.
Run extensive tests... looking for complex bonds compund bonds....
Conversions, or shared crystal structures....several acids, no acids, electrolysis.
Cobalt blens with magnesium or calcium, which would involve - cobaltoan.
LOOK AT THE MAP - BOOM !
Just above the western driftwood deposit - smack dap - at the purple dragon.
Look at the year - 2001 - same year as the other geo - testing for minerals on Driftwood.
https://www.mindat.org/loc-420003.html
The following quote is from B.C. Government site “Minfile”- Minfile No. 082KNE 018,
current to 2001:
“The region includes strata from the Purcell and Windermere supergroups, overlain by a Paleozoic platformal carbonate succession. The structure of the area is dominated by the Mount Forster-Steamboat fault, one of a series of Mesozoic thrust faults, and it carries folded Middle and Upper Proterozoic strata over folded Upper Proterozoic and Paleozoic strata.
In the Silver Giant occurrence area, the Middle-Upper Cambrian Jubilee Formation consists of a massive dolomite-limestone unit unconformably overlying the Lower Cambrian Cranbrook Formation and Hadrynian Horsethief Creek Group.
The Cranbrook Formation consists of thick-bedded mature quartzites and quartz grits; the Horsethief Creek Group comprises a series of interbedded thinly laminated, grey shales, massive thick-bedded grits, medium to thick-bedded, white and brown quartzites, and grey, black, and buff-weathering limestones and dolomites. The Upper Cambrian to Middle Ordovician McKay Group conformably overlies the Jubilee Formation and consists of recessively weathering shales, thin sandstones and dolomitic biowackestones. Base metal mineralization occurs within the Jubilee Formation in solution breccias beneath the Devonian and Ordovician unconformities.
At the Silver Giant mine, mineralization occurs in limestone of the Jubilee Formation close to its contact with slates of the McKay Group.
The orebodies occur on the crest of an overturned anticline that has been subsequently folded and faulted. At the mine the main ore zone occupies the nose of the overturned anticline. The structure has a limestone core surrounded by slate. The plunge of the nose is westerly, and underground development has shown it to vary from 45 degrees near the surface to flat-lying on the No. 8 level. A large regional thrust fault has been mapped 400 metres to the west and in the underground workings.
The various mineralized zones are barite-sulphide replacements with varying amounts of silica. They occur beneath the slate at its contact with the limestone along the nose of the fold and along the west limb. Some barren masses of barite also occur in the limestone beneath the contact; these are interpreted as the roots of the orebodies.
Mineralogy consists of predominantly fine-grained galena with lesser amounts of sphalerite, pyrite, chalcopyrite and bornite.
Locally, small amounts of a grey copper-arsenic mineral also occur. The barite is most commonly white. It varies from very fine grained to coarse bladed crystal aggregates. The fine-grained barite is either massive or foliated and commonly contains sulphides and argillaceous material.
Both fine and medium-grained carbonate occurs interstitial to the barite. Some chert may also be present. Locally, there is the suggestion of brecciation.”
Comments by Giles Peatfield regarding some of the minerals reported:
Bournonite: Identified only by Brown (1953), as “. . . minute blebs averaging 60 microns in length in galena and in association with tetrahedrite and a mauvish gray mineral designated mineral “x”.”, which Brown described as follows:
“This is a mauvish gray mineral that has polarization colors and etch reactions similar to those of bournonite but bearing a distinctly mauvish tint.
Distinction between the two minerals was made possible by the presence of an irregular mass of this mineral in a grain of bournonite . . . . In comparison with bournonite, this mineral has a distinctly higher anisotropism.”
Tennantite: Reported only by Reesor (1973) with no more details. I would regard it as tentative – but see comment below for tetrahedrite.
Tetrahedrite: It is best to quote Brown (1953) at length. “A mineral having the properties of tetrahedrite occurs . . . as blebs averaging 60 microns in length in galena. These blebs were too small to obtain material for a satisfactory microchemical test and its determination as tetrahedrite is only suggested. A mineral having similar etch reactions to tetrahedrite but having a distinctly darker color remains specifically unidentified and has been designated mineral “y”.”
Brown described this mineral as follows: “An olive gray mineral having similar optical properties and etch reactions to tetrahedrite but lacking the brownish or pinkish tints common to tetrahedrite is present in most sections containing copper minerals. This mineral was observed . . . as veins in bornite and chalcopyrite and is hence later than these minerals. The mineral was also seen as borders around galena . . . which is suggestive of replacement of galena.”
The whole question of tennantite / tetrahedrite, as well as the identity of
minerals “x” and “y”, must remain undecided.
One further comment regarding Brown’s study is that Dr. R. M. Thompson described it as a “Very careful and painstaking job. No detail overlooked.” And let me tell you, from Prof. Thompson that was high praise indeed!
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Here's my map again.... look for the purple showing photo -
just above it in the trees is where i saw a square or rectangle dark shape...
Which led me on the trail to finding the - Giant silver mine - inside the same ore body as this open face dolomite showing...
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QUESTION ?
Why didn't MGX ever mention this " GIANT MINE " ?
FFS... The road leading to Driftwood creek is the SAME ROAD that wraps right around
Driftwood creek deposit.
What did they call it or only mention ?
Forestry road...lol
Why hide the name of the road and Giant mine ?
Why throw out impurities in oress ?
Why mention purple, pink, green, yellow, orange ,dolomites but never test for anytihng else ?
lol