In addition to the gold zone a large scale, high grade talc (+30%) zone is present at the Deer Cove project.
The Deer Cove talc deposit occurs in extensively altered ultramafic rocks beneath the footwall of the Deer Cove thrust fault, directly below a 20-30 m thick zone of carbonate-talc-fuchsite-quartz vein +/- gold mineralization.
This talc- carbonate and talc-carbonate-magnesite zone is fairly extensive and covers a zone over 1.2 km long and from 200 to over 500 m wide.
In the late 1980s Noranda completed a program of surface trenches and diamond drilling followed by metallurgical testing which confirmed a high quality talc product could be produced.
Additional exploration and technical studies would be required to bring the deposit to a NI 43-101 mineral resource estimate.
Calculations later