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Gold/Mining/Energy : Winspear Resources
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To: George J. Tromp who wrote (6109)6/21/1998 3:36:00 AM
From: E. Charters  Read Replies (2) of 26850
 
The boil down of all their chance is that the dyke
is quite extensive, running east west across the north
end of the lake. what really prevents the dyke from
being the source of the boulders is that it is not
upice of the dyke! The ice direction is to the northwest.
So the lake is probably not the source of the boulders
but some feature off the property to the south and east
of the lake. (the boulders were found on the northwest
and southwest shore of the lake)

The problem with trying to source the boulders is that
they represent too small a sample and are quite altered
by weathering. It would be difficult to correlate them
with any in situ material. Also they do not represent
a coherent train that points to any sure fire source
like many enigmatic float found in disparate parts of
the shield. I have found that sources of float are as often
as not right below the float, a place that WSP has
not as yet looked. If the west shore was taken as the
widest part of the bolder fan then the source would be
directly east by south east of the west shore about 1
mile, which would put it somewhere on the east shore of
the lake or perhaps in the centre. I don't know if this
possibility has been entertained. A fence of geochem
sampling or RC basal till sampling would find it.

It appeared to me that WSP's methods were haphazard and
guided by too little info and hurt by too hazy a plan.
I had predicted safely I must admit that they would
probably not find what they were looking for.

The dykes themselves are not really dykes as they are
not hypabyssal phase, but explosive diatreme. This means
that the so called dyke is in fact a long skinny vent
system. Actually all kimberlite diatremes or vents occurr
within the dyke system. This is a dyke like vent occuring
within the fault that did not get pipe geometry. The texture
of the diaterme, ie porphyritic breccia, is the definitive proof of this. There are many long intersections in the dykes but no info from the company as to the indicated width. They may in fact be fissure
veins with no pipe diatreme forming in this phase.
The classical method of finding the blow out is to follow
the fissures along strike and use methods to find the
widenings that usually occur. I don't see WSP as being
too hip in benefiting from the classical knowledge of
kimberlite emplacement and occurrence or if they are they
sure do not share their knowledge with the shareholders.

All in all if they don't speed it up I would walk away from
this company as having too little expertise in the
field they have chosen to play in.

echarter@vianet.on.ca

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