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Gold/Mining/Energy : Gold and Silver Juniors, Mid-tiers and Producers -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: hank2010 who wrote (62623)	12/29/2008 11:51:29 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78424

Another one who has lived off the avails of a Hemlo for the past 30 years. For shame. You should go out and find another orebody like an honest prospector. I used to drive past the outcrop by the highway for 10 years.I liked the look of that crag of rock. I liked all the rocks in that area all the way to Kenora. Someday they will find another orebody along the highway out that way, just like Hemlo. The rocks are the same thing all the way to Oba to the east. Oba has fair and consistent gold (0.20 OPT) over many narrow parallel (2 foot) widths in numerous quartz veins. Nothing look economic in then 90's. VEins to far apart to make decent low grade ore.. I believe. Takes another look. 10 miles east of there near Wabikoba Lake they deform and plunge at a nose in the same way. Bell drilled 5 holes there and walked away. The secret of Hemlo is not the Cedar Lake pluton at all. Or the amphibolite shear, the LSSZ with its tension fracture pyrite blebs. The secret is like many areas, the porphyry. If you get the 1948 maps, the area abounds in porphyry. The three mines are along a porphyry horizon, which is never mentioned in the literature. They took the porphyry off the new maps when the higfalutin theoretical geologist preferred to call it undifferentiated felsic intrusive. Who the hell are they kidding? Textural, visual terms are a very handy way to define rocks. I don't care a whit for their PhD, and neither does any other practical miner. It is there on the map. I worked with a prospector in the area called Peter Moses, who was grandson of Moses Fisher, the Injun who first found gold there, or so it is popularly said. We had claims south of the highway, about 1 mile from the Williams drilling. You could hear the drills. No one would buy the claims as they were in not too well sheared mafic volcanics. I figure if you get porphyry related rocks, and are in a fold repetition, there is an even chance of similar mineralization. No one ever drilled south of the highway at all, preferring to stay on the trend. I have a theory that parallelism with our without quartz will be found, perhaps more lensoidal, but good gold nonetheless. You would have to drill 2 or 3 hundred holes to get a winner, but the odds are better than fair. There is gold south of the highway, but nobody chased it in an organized way. You have to drill, not just do geofizz and geochem. there is more than one camp like that, that has seen no investigation of related parallel folds south and north of the main breaks. Kirkland Lake is like that, and Timmins. North of Timmins break, there are found all kinds of gold shows, but they are under swamp and overburden. Frankfield zone is one. I figure all the Way to Cochrane in the DP shadow, along that mag horizon that imitated the break's form, there is greenstone gold. No one has the balls to drill it. Bradshaw did some stuff that ran 0.30 OPT for a good bit of tons, but Sheridan got in there for 50% and put the keybosh on it. Realistically again, you have to drill vertical gradient targets and mag targets along competency contrasts. The breaks there are tension fractures like the Frankfield, oblique, SW to the main DP fault structure. Only for the brave. But given a few hits it may pay back. I did a DDH in Timmins and ran into red brick McIntyre Porphyry north of the fault 8 miles in along a hjigh NE fault. I got 0.01 gold in a minor suflide quartz vein. Presence of gold in relation to a porphyry is a good sign. You need a basic gold company with a 40 million dollar drilling budget and ten million dollar geofizz budget and the brains and practical nature to look at what they missed on those three camps. Gathering up property may be a chore. Better budget 5 million for that. Better buy your own drills to save those bucks, although you can get a diamond drill right now practically at cost. Trouble with grass roots is you have better be prepared to blow near all of it, and hope to get lucky. Noranda drilled north of Timmins here and there. They hit smells of copper zinc, some greenstone. Nothing spectacular. They were not drilling for gold. I figure if there is a good break up there, if you drill into the rock below the clay and do TDEM off hole you will find the breaks. Perhaps down hole IP. The entire DP break is outlined by TDEM. At the cross faults or shifts in the main break are all the mines. Interestingly no one was looking seriously at 1 gram to 2 gram wide low grade in the 90's. Flanagan Mcadam had 50 million tons of better than one gram in Wawa. All kinds of that stuff there if you put it together, just like Brezinski's play. EC:<-}