Old last year Wen Site INFO PGModel:
All elements of - the
Prairie Gold model
are (probably) present in
Athabasca.
The Prairie Gold model guides our search for a gold deposit in this area. It explains how gold and other metals were transported by low-temperature fluids in the Western Canadian Sedinientaiy Basin (WCSH) andwere deposited in host rocks in Athabasca. There are five I critical elements of the Prairie Gold model: a brine solution source rocks; a plumbing system; a precipitation mechanism; and time. All elements of the Prairie Gold model are ~~~present in Athabasca.
The solution capable of carrying gold is an oxidized chloride-rich brine generated as the residual saline solution remaining after salt deposition during Early mid Middle Devonian times. In addition, chloride-rich brine is generated when meteoric water enters from the surface, flows through the sedimentary rock and dissolyFs the deposits of salt.
The source rocks must contain some gold and precious metals and be sufficiently porous and penneable to allow the brine to circulate. In Athabasca, the source rocks are fractured Precambrian basement wliicb extend along the eastern margin of the WCSB.
The plumbing system by which the metal-bearing solutions flow to the site of deposition is a combination of structural and stratigraphic fluid conduits including permeable aquifers, faults, fractures and solution collapse features. The structural history of the eastern part of the Peace River Arch is an integral part of the Prairie Gold model in Athabasca. Over geological time, structural adjustment of the Peace River Arch fractured the sedimentaiy racks and provided conduits for transporting metal-bearing solutions.
The precipitation mechanism for removing gold and precious metal from solution is reduction of the oxidized, chloride-rich brine by reaction with either sulphides or organic material. It takes time for these solutions to transport a sufficient quantity of gokt In northeastern Alberta, gold and precious metal transport and deposition has occurred for tens to hundreds of millions of years.
Applying the Prairie (laid model, we believe an ore body in Athabasca will be discovered in a large volume of fractured, altered limestone that contains gold and precious metals with minor amounts of copper, zinc and other metals. The location of such an ore body will be controlled by stratigraphic features and will reflect the distribution of both permeability and precipitation mechanisms, likely related to solution collapse features. The Bitumount Basin meets this description and will be the focus of our exploration program.
...areas that had the ability to capture metals.
WHERE ELSE WOULD THE PRAIRIE GOLD MODEL ~~~Probably~~~APPLY?
"the first area is Dawson Bay in Manitoba, where Birch Mountain has acquired a Special Exploration Permit covering 530,000 hectres. New occurances of microdisseminated gold and polymetallic minerals were discovered here in 1996 by the GSC and Manitoba Energy and Mines," says etc it went on ...on exploration facets...
Chucka
geocities.com
Above is the Prairie Gold Model that I saved and below are BM stuff on their AGM in full color one is enlarged by 33% ..ssnc.jpg i think is the big one...see the Failed or Leaky Oil Field Diagram that may be a high( rather lowerring of the temperature with an increse towards the surface as thre HIGH hotter temps are at the subsurfaces) temperature varient of NV Carlin Trend Style Stuff...at Yankee Mine which "IS in" NV at the Carlin so it may apply to AZ IMHO.( IE Low Temperature Varriant!)
Failed Oil at 100%:
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I forget what this is:
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133% Failed Oil Field View:
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Map of Alberta below:
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P.S.- Griz at New Blue Ribbon Thread just said he would try to post some info as he is heading out over to the calgary Venture Investment Conferance. Go CONFEREES!!! ! Confer...confoundit...eurikait.
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