Here's a radar satelite map of Canada,
My favorite kind of map - it reveals the true history of land formations.
It's like, erasing all the topsoils, vegatation and trees.
You're left with the bare geophysics of the land.
Now can al lsee the relavence as to why i said, this entire area has seen significant erosion via massive watershed ?
Yeah... it's quite apparent how the ocean came inland - swept right thorugh the canadian parries - right down into the states - nevada and also stateside plains.
If one is savvy wirh maps - you'l lbe able to spot great slave lake and more importantly,
yeloowknife bay - the same bay where the con and giant mines were located - wesrt side of bay - hey, i don't see no shearzone - but i do see massive erosion fro mthe watershed.
What i do see that is - notable - is the elongated land mass that runs along the west side of the bay going north which appears still intact - higher thin and long land mass that didn't escaped the erosion - now... wouldn't that be something if the gold found at the con and giant mine were eon aged secondary deposits that reconsolodated with crystal veining that appeared as - geothermal veining ?
Yes... there is geothermal heat below - but,
such may have also aided in the curing of the crystal veining of, silica, carbonate salts.
I think i might even see a few high spots that may have acted as a - blockaide - trapping the freegold that roamed via watersheds + erosions.
Could explain away the sedimentary bed booking effect, and how the host rock in some regions turned into greenstone = salt chloride waters - saturation.
There are canyons in some parts of the - NWT.
supposing this entire north arm ( bay ) of yeloowknife - was once a canyon, and oceaqn waters invased chewing aprt all the landscape north of and west of, it would certainly create the sediment bedding - add in salt waters = could explain the trapped carbonate waters turned to crystal veining -
I can even see a far greater erosion on the eastern bay side - where the bay appears far larger long ago.
What directly north of - Yellowknife around Nelson Lake ?
Ha... appears it was all one waterbody al lthe way to the artic ocean.
I can't help but think - where would all the placer gold be ?
If goldis being fond on the few outcrops that are remaining - and this gold is right at surface, then, where would all the rest of the gold go - if lots of erosion occured ?
My only hunch would be,
washed right through to the parries or,became trapped in pocket kettle lakes that dot the landscape.... and there are many of them.
Why would i say this ?
All because the first prospector in Yellowknife found very rich grade gold at the outh of the Yellowknife lake, bay area.
Not far from the Con + Giant mine.
So... the right answer would be sifting the Con and Giant mine historical data - and seeking out former drill core data and asking that oh so important question - is this geothermal gold - or, could it be placer that became reconsolodated - with the stray factor of thinking geothermal was the originator - source of gold ?
I have sifted - Gold Terra's 43 101 - showing older diagrams of the Giant and Con mines -
I wil lsay this.... the drill core diagrams do show the drills penatrating several kinds of geology
and veining - argilites etc.... the gold is not partia lto just veining.
If one were to place the geothermal factor on the sidelines and then pull forward all other data then ask... how would this area be precieved ?
- greenstone
- greywacke
- argilites
- veining
- volcanics
- granite
- carbonates
- lots of erosion
- lots of lakes
now... let's use a lil psuedo geology, like the previous videos i showed.
how arcing can create volcanic looking rocks and form instant crystals.
now the biggie....
does the 43v101 for Mon Mine mention nuggety gold ?
Pretty sure i read it did.
vein gold
nuggety gold
perhaps both are present.
Here's the radar map - enjoy....
yes... i like ot look at all angles - seeing if there's a larger storythat may explan away the
reason as to why, there's hold in one area and not another.
And of course.... did the former geo's read the lay of land correctly.
I've read many 43 101 reports where the geos couldn't quite explain how minerals ended up where they did - especially salts.
And in this yellowknife case, we have the presence of greenstone.
Chlorite effect.
And... now we can clearly see the effects of - a once larger watershed at play- ocean.
= ocean waters.
Makes perfect sense as to whyt the prarries and northern states have those wonderful clay soils which are so rich in minerals - ocean baby.. At least i beleove so.
Now.. .some may disagree.. .and that's ok.
If it gets anyone thinking - that's a good thing.
If your thinking, then you've got your game hat on.
There's no room for compacency in exploration or mining.
Cheers....
