FARQ + GOODWIN + HALFMILEGoodwin's upper claims boundary ( mere 2 km's from Halfmile )
Goodwin drilling ( grange + farq ) mere 5km from halfmile.
1st Image we can see the 2 historical drills and recent WG 24 03
100m wide at surface
as one descends downward the mineralized body is approx 50m wide
How deep does this go - another brunswick or caribou ?
what's needed ? Glory hole down the middle to see if this has 500m+ depth or more.....
added green line
i've added 2 blue dotted lines our first 70m
was not assayed ( pegmatite dyke ) - if carbs... could host unseen minerals
historical hole mineralization extends to ------>
added blue line - left side.
blue dotted line right side beyond the 130m depth there's more
gabbro and then a volcanic sequence. not assayed.
Many reports i've read volcanics are mineralized with very fine grains. ( won't see )
if those volcanics are mineralized.... hello - it would really beef up the ore body.
Granges had 40m 3%+ grades with in volcanic tuffs.
I'd say... a second take on GW 24 03 lower gabbro and volcanics would be wise.
2nd Image very close to halfmile
black dash lines - large fissures / faults
blue triangle halfmile geology puzzle group runs into Farq zone.
Surprized Farq didn't reveal Zinc like halfmile hosts.
if mineralization is assoc to the assumed fault ?
fault runs clear to Logan and another few connect to halfmile mine.
As for Slam's drill budget ? I'd skip the soil samples and redirect to Logan with a distant drill hole
hoping to connect farq to logan if they hit they'd have ---------> near 4km strike along fault
more bang for the buck.
Assaying ? importance - i've noticed several juniors have lessor grades than former miners - aside of the 1 meter 8% - 12% intercepts ( peers ) - my thoughts ?
New Brunswick could have supergene minerals - multibonds - zinc/iron, zinc/Mg, Zinc/copper Zinc/Pb etc... numerous bonds are applicale due to these are transitional minerals. Where would i point my compass ? Single acid digestion and longer digestion timeframes -----> with heat adding acid along the way to arrive at full digestion - can't see a busy lab taking several hours to nurse full digestion when processing hundreds, thousands of assays ( numerous juniors ). . Too quick of digestion results in partial digestion - undissolved minerals. Undissolved minerals go off to firing whereby... only au, ag, pl, pd are tested and with a Pb flux where undissolved zinc/lead is skim removed. For silver assaying, a secondary assay of the skimmed lead is required but...... would zinc at this phase be checked ? NO. ... only au, ag, pl, pd. Hence - full digestion of all minerals is best vs risking partial digest aqua regia and fire assay where partial digested samples are sent to fire assay yet may miss cu, zn, etc because at this phase they only seek au, ag, pl, pd. Trevali performed their own assaying ( firstly ) then 3rd party confirmation. Good format Smart Miner - Iron Zinc bond
60% iron 40% zinc
would an xrf identify the greater 60% iton and dismiss the 40% zinc ? hence - full digestion / only singular acid - easier for light spectrometer detection.
Cheers....