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To: koan who wrote (1839)	7/4/2000 11:39:32 AM
From: Andrew	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2255

Toronto Star article. thestar.com Edit. I guess the link no longer works, sorry. Andy

To: koan who wrote (1839)	7/6/2000 2:32:31 AM
From: VAUGHN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2255

Hello Koan Sorry if I didn't make any sense, and take my musing with a grain of salt, but what I was looking for on Bob's map, was some geological combination that seemed like a likely natural host or setting for PGE concentrations which have historically been found in only very specific geological settings. Because PGE's are believed to only come out of solution in high concentrations under these very specific geological conditions, I was looking for some evidence of those conditions. Ideally you would look for an ultra-mafic rock like a diabase, troctolite, theolitic magma, etc. in contact with a sulfur rich rock like some meta-sediments or gniesses derived from meta-sediments. PGE's are usually found with copper and nickel and sometimes minor amounts of gold. It is my admittedly modest understanding that when metal saturated hydrothermal fluids come in contact with the sulfur under the right pressure conditions, the metals come out of solution. Usually the copper on top, then nickel and then PGE's in part because of the specific gravity of the metals and in part due to their relative affinity for combining with the sulfur. From a physical setting perspective, theoretically, the deeper you drill, the greater the concentration of metals should be encountered up to the bottom contact between the diabase and the sulfur rich rock (meta-sediment). If that contact between the two rocks has some natural physical trap such as a bowl shape or faulting or brechiated fracturing, etc. then the PGE's should theoretically be found in the highest concentrations at those points. What is called massive sulfides could well be encountered well before that contact and the ores could be valuable in their Cu, Ni, and Au concentrations, but generally, the high concentrations of PGE's should be found near the bottom of the massive sulfides at that sulfur contact rock trap. ITF appears to have what might be a sulfur bearing limestone or meta-sediment called the Gowganda Formation. If it has been intruded by Nipising diabase dikes such as PFN has found its PGE's in, then in theory, we have the beginnings of the right geological setting (in theory). The wall contacts between the Nipising Diabase and the meta-sediment or limestone might show some interesting PGE enrichment, but the base or bottom contact and or any faulting or intrusion fracturing or bretchiation should be where traped PGE concentrated. Bob's map was at an extremely large scale, but there appeared to be some very large lineal features that are presumably either diabase dikes, faults, sheer zones and/or contacts between to distinct geological provinces that were cemented when the Superior Craton was accreted. It was just such an accreted contact between two plates that was believe to be the geological event that allowed the Voiseys Bay Hope Brook ore body to be created from a resulting intruding ultra-mafic magma. At the south of ITF's and PFN's claims there appears to be a line that may signify the boundary contact of just such a pair of accreted plates. Such a collision could well be the catalyst allowing an ultra-mafic intrusion. Having said that, the Superior Craton was supposed to have been formed in relatively recent geological time while the PFN Nipising Ddiabase I believe someone said was around 3.8 ba, so there may be several geological mechanisims at work here and only time and some geological sluthing will sort it all out. Hope that wasn't just as confusing or turn out to be completely refuted by the thread geologist/claven. Regards