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Gold/Mining/Energy : Donner Minerals (DML.V) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: VAUGHN who wrote (791)	10/31/1997 7:33:00 PM
From: Ed Pakstas	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11676

Limited knowledge??? So you say... My butt!!! So I say...<g>Thankyou...ed<eom>

To: VAUGHN who wrote (791)	10/31/1997 8:13:00 PM
From: Clark Kent	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 11676

OFF TOPIC_______Vaughn..... Here is where Ed and I got our lessons from, techstocks.com and some more here.......... techstocks.com Sincerely Obeewan-kinobee

To: VAUGHN who wrote (791)	11/1/1997 10:26:00 AM
From: the Chief	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 11676

VAUGHN: Could you please say that again, only slower !!!!(eom)

To: VAUGHN who wrote (791)	11/1/1997 1:04:00 PM
From: Terry J. Crebs	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 11676

Vaughn, your thinking and description of events about VB orebodies is quite good; some of your dates may be off a bit--but remember--nobody really knows how these type of orebodies form. We are all still argueing (e.g., "peer-reviewed-yammering" in the scientific journals) just how the anorthosite suites are developed and are emplaced within the earth's crust. One of the best recent papers IMO on the "suture zone" which Teck and Donner allude to is by my good friend Bruce Ryan (a geologist too) of the Newfoundland Dept. of Geology & Natural Resources. In the NF Geological Survey Report 96-1 (pages 109-129) he wrote a paper titled "Commentary on the Location of the Nain-Churchill Boundary in the Nain Area. He noted that the anorthosite, granite, diorite, and troctolite rocks which make up the Nain Plutonic Suite (NPS) were emplaced between 1.35 and 1.29 billion years ago (bya). The NPS straddles the approximately 1.86-billion year old collisonal boundary (i.e., "the suture") between 1.9-to-2.2? bya sulfur-rich Churchill rocks of the west with 2.5-to-3.0? bya "Archean" gneissic Nain rocks of the east. I think this very ancient continental collision in Labrador was probably similar to what is taking place in Tibet right now; where India is colliding with Asia and forming the Himalayas. (Who knows, just maybe another VB-type orebody is now being emplaced 6-to-10 kilometers beneath the base of Mt. Everest--if so, it's way too deep to detect or mine <grin>.) Yup, we think it took over a billion years for erosion to remove the +6 kilometers of overburden and uncover the now-shallow Ovoid (do you see why I think Mother Nature is sexy??) Vaughn, I think you're also right about the faulting. I think some fault-zones acted as "zones of weakness" for the later intruding nickel-rich troctolites to follow. Bruce Ryan thinks younger EW-faulting may have occurred during the Jurassic? (about 150 mya) and could be breaking-up (and complicating) the stratigraphy and the 1.3-billion-year-old orebodies. I think the geology of Labrador is fascinating. Hope I haven't been too "geeky and technical", and I'm not a geologist either, ha, ha. Have a nice weekend, T.