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Gold/Mining/Energy : ECHARTERS
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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (2127)1/5/1998 3:14:00 AM
From: E. Charters  Read Replies (1) of 3744
 
The reference is Tintina Mines Ltd's work in Northern Alberta on surface minerals. We found lots of native elements in the formations. They were not necessarily till as the rock formations there are like clay and unconsolidated. The GSC probed grains for us and found unusual metal combos as well as these extremely rare things like grains of aluminum and nickel. Tin-gold was one of the metal combos. Some of the pyrite clusters were rhomb shaped, cigar shaped, very common. Lots of spherical clusters of crystals. These are not stream formed I don't think. They seem to call for some other mechanism. The native elements were a puzzler. It points to a type of reductive mechanism. Some lakes were alkaline, some acid, so chemistry is not uniform to point to this as a sure source. Native bitumen was common and limestone. It may be that the lime and oil had a hand in preserving the rare minerals and elements. Native brass was found. We were just not sure of the origin for these metals. No screen or pan or shovel we used, used these metals.

We were not the only ones to find them as GSC people had found some of these types of metals in BC. They seemed to form some distant haloe down ice of copper deposits, tentatively.

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echarter@vianet.on.ca

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