Robert Murray
Little Dipper Harbour
Commodity: Gold, Silver, Copper
Claim block number (units): 11059 (7)
NTS Location: 21 G/01
Contact Information: 506-566-1962
[email protected]
Commodity: Gold, Silver, Copper
Claim block number (units): 11059 (7)
NTS Location: 21 G/01
Contact Information: 506-566-1962
[email protected]
The Little Dipper Harbour project represents the initial stages of the investigation of a gold-bearing vein system. There are three mineral occurrences within the claim area: Little Dipper Harbour-Cox (reference number 568), Little Dipper Harbour Barite (reference number 557), and Dead Deer Prospect (reference number 567).
The Little Dipper Harbour-Cox occurrence is a historical discovery of gold-bearing quartz veins with disseminated and patchy sulfides. The main vein was exposed along strike for 25 m (strikes 155/30-45 SW) with visible gold. The host rocks are altered and sheared Carboniferous siltstone, sandstone, and conglomerates that are in a faulted contact with the Precambrian rhyolite and basalt to the south. Historical grab samples yielded up to 1 oz/t Au. The gold is believed to be related to the same Hercynian thrusting as the Cape Spencer Gold Mine. Government sample 568-1 yielded 26.7 g/t Au, 203 ppm Ag, 508 ppm Bi, 1.91% Cu, and 4.66% Pb.
The Little Dipper Harbour Barite occurrence is at the fault contact, 250 m to the south of the gold occurrence. The Precambrian felsic and mafic units contain numerous quartz veins with quartz-carbonate-barite-epidote-hematite alteration that range in width from 2 cm to 50 cm. Government sample 557-1 yielded 3 ppb Au, and 37000 ppm Ba.
The Dead Deer Prospect occurrence is approximately 240 m to the north of the Cox gold showing. This potentially represents a continuation of the Cox gold prospect. There are small amounts of chalcopyrite, chalcocite, and bornite in a 0.5 m to 1 m wide quartz vein striking 160/66 west. Government sample 567-1 yielded 2100 ppb Au, 16 ppm Ag, and 2.17% Cu.
Figure 1 (Compilation Trench Map) shows the highest sample over a 1 m length (#8109) assayed just over 1 oz/ton Au, and the highest sample over a 60 cm wide section (#6919) assayed 0.565 oz/ton Au.