Post by
Wangotango67 on Jan 25, 2024 7:33am
IT"S WHAT YOU LABEL A DEPOSIT ( geology )
Smart miners will label ( mafic, ultramafic )
= Laterite Deposits ( upper / lower geologies )
= Keeps it simple
Others will want to over analyze / characterize the geology
= complex the matter
Characterizing the geology and metal particulant sizes
= all good
But.... solution minerals should be easiest to extract
= fine grind = liberate = water soluble or acid bond
= port out from close circuit
= captured mineral
Some will choose a parent subgroup name
to best describe their deposit geology.
Take for instance, Baptise Nickel project.
They use the description - Awaruite
What is Awaruite ?
Awaruite occurs in river placer deposits derived from
serpentinized peridotites and ophiolites
Serpentized
= Hydrated with magnesium and iron.
= carbonated limes / special stranded fiber crystals
Baptise = Awaruite ?
Or.... Listwanite
Page 10
Baptiste Creek i:s underlain by intense listwanite.
On the east side of Van Decar Creek, the dominant
lithology is harzburgite with lesser amounts of
dunite, peridotite and altered equivalents of the
Trembleur ultramafic massif. Drill core has
revealed t~hat the ultramafic is, at least in part,
a flow with recognizable flow tops and also
containing volcanic rafts. A late stage dunite
forms vertical pipes and small lopoliths pushing
layers of harzburgite and dunite apart.
The 1994 drilling revealed an extensive package
of volcaniclastics with minor limestone, chert and
siltstone which have been thrust over the ultra-
mafic. Folding appears to be affected both the
volcaniclastics, the ultramafic and possibly the
West Zone listwanite.
https://apps.nrs.gov.bc.ca/pub/aris/Report/26993.pdf/
They have a real mix of geology going on.
What's the dinger ?
Listwanite.
Report mentions lots of, magnesium.
Yet... FPX doesn't speak much about it.
Not until they - involve CO2 Lock.
Keep in mind - Listwanite = co2 mg mineral
CO2 Lock is working on two pathways to permanently mineralize CO2:
CO2 storage or CO2 removal.
These processes utilize BRSP deposits, accessing the abundant labile magnesium cations which when combined with CO2 to form stable carbonate minerals, permanently locking away CO2. For ex-situ CO2 removal, the Company processes material from BRSP deposits above ground, mixes this processed material with CO2 through various means, and generates carbonate minerals at surface. In-situ CO2 storage involves injecting CO2 rich water into BRSP deposits at depth where mineralization occurs; this process is similar to Project Orca in Iceland where a joint venture between Carbfix and Climeworks utilize basalts to permanently mineralize CO2 in-situ.
https://fpxnickel.com/sustainability/carbon-capture-and-sequestration/
So... instead of Listwanite.
Awaurite was used.
Own opinion.
Wellgreen,
out of all the research papers i've thus far read,
wellgreen doesn't have the Awaurite ot Listwanite.
But it does have it's carbonate zones.
High grade zones.
Green / Grey colored.
Wellgreen, has the A typical upper lower mafic / ultramafics.
Similar to other - laterite deposits
Experience Geo's who've studied the Wellgreen Qill Complex have
also refered to the peridotites as -
- Feldspathic
- Wehrlite
Now imagine if 2017 Crew ran with, simple laterite upper / lower
or.... Feldspathic , Wehrlite ?
What if they ran with just the name - Dunite ?
- Several in Timmins have done so.
- Australia too.
Dunite labelling would change the stigma of wellgreen to match,
other nickel peers.
Peridotite, Dunite, Olivine - each are somewhat similar.
Dunite has a better - market appeal.
Was this geo label map of wellgreen more accurate ?
Labelling majority of wellgreen as - Dunite.
M42 - 506 eng pdf
Page - 39
https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2016/rncan-nrcan/M42-506-eng.pdf
Good read on several zones of,
Yukon Wrangellara formations.
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We all know how FPX uses a fine grind on ores to target the nickel
silicate and produces a - MHP nickel hydroxide.
Here's a nickel miner from, Brazil.
BRAZILIAN NICKEL PLC ( England - ahhh ha )
Nickel / Cobalt silicate carbonate deposit
It's the extraction that interests me - fine grind silicates and acid
= .silicate go unaffected only liberated mineral bonds to acid.
This company will produce -
Nickel Hydroxide Product (NHP) is an intermediate
that can be used to produce nickel precursors
The deposit has been extensively drilled with over 82,000m of drilling and a mineral reserve of 98.8 million tonnes at 0.74% Ni and 0.04% Co with upside potential in adjacent exploration licences. The deposit is characterised by very favourable geological conditions in that it is rocky in texture to aid heap percolation and has a high silica content which, being unreactive with acid, minimises acid consumption.
https://www.braziliannickel.com/piaui-nickel-project/
https://www.braziliannickel.com/nickel-and-cobalt-products/
All in a name - keep 846 million tonne inferred
All in what type of extraction.
Imagine using two extractions ?
2014 crew wanted to process silicates after the sulphides.
Wellgreens majority of ores
= dunite, peridotite, olivine, pyroxine.