01Cape Smith Belt Ni-Cu Project (QC)
Cape Smith Belt Ni-Cu Internal Project located is located in Nunavik Territory, Quebec, approximately 90 kilometers south of the Village of Salluit, a regional community on the Arctic coast. This Project lies in the west central portion of the Cape Smith Belt, a linear belt of mafic and ultramafic magmatic rocks of Proterozoic age. Ni-Cu sulphide deposits in the Cape Smith Belt are associated with ultramafic intrusions and komatiitic flows emplaced throughout the Povungnituk Group and in particular at its upper contact with the Chukotat Group. The individual ultramafic intrusions hosting the sulphide deposits are generally thinner than 150 meters stratigraphic thickness and can be traced for 1,000 to 10,000 meters. The sulphide deposits of the Raglan Mine are typically comprised of clusters of multiple distinct lenses.
02Detour Quebec Orogenic Gold Project (QC)
The Detour Quebec Orogenic Gold Project is located along the Sunday Lake and Lower Detour deformation zones in Ontario and Quebec. The area is underlain by the Harricana-Turgeon Greenstone Belt, which forms the northern-most part of the Abitibi Subprovince near its interpreted boundary with the Opatica Subprovince. This greenstone belt is cut by a network of regional deformation corridors that extend from Ontario eastwards and separate two dominantly volcanic domains from an area dominated by volcanic-derived sedimentary rocks with minor volcanic rocks. These regional high-strain zones include the Lower Detour (LDDZ) and Sunday Lake (SLDZ) deformation zones, which track east-west and are spatially associated with significant orogenic gold mineralization, including the Detour Lake gold deposit (Ontario). In Quebec, the regionally gold mineralization, including the producing, multi-million ounce Casa Berardi deposit, the former producing Vezza mine and several advanced prospects, are associated with the Casa-Berardi deformation zone.
03Red Lake Gold Project (ON)
The Red Lake Project is located within the Red Lake Greenstone Belt (RLGB) of the Archean Superior Province of the Canadien Shield. The RLGB boats a prolific 90-year history of gold production. All major gold deposits in the RLGB are hosted within the Balmer Assemblage which includes the RLGB’s oldest volcanic rocks that are predominantly comprised of submarine mafic tholeiites and ultramafic komatiites. Gold deposits in the RLGB are classified as orogenic gold deposits and characterized by a spatial and temporal association with crustal-scale fault structures.
04Northern Parkers Porphyry Cu-Au Project (Australia)
The Northern Parkes Internal Project located in the northern Junee-Narromine Volcanic Belt (JNVB), New South Wales, Australia. The Northern Parkes Internal Project is underlain by volcanic, volcaniclastic and intrusive rocks of the Junee-Narromine Volcanic Belt (JNVB), which is the most westerly structural belt of the now disrupted Macquarie Arc. The Macquarie Arc is Australia’s premier porphyry copper-gold province host to Newcrest Mining’s Cadia deposits, the CMOC Northparkes deposits and Evolution Mining’s Cowal deposits plus numerous exploration prospects including Boda, the discovery made by Alkane Resources.
05Cadia Au-Cu Porphyry Mining Camp
Cadia Au-Cu Porphyry Mining Camp is a series of large underground and open-cut gold-copper mines developed throughout the 1990s and is a major employer in the region with an expected lifespan of several decades. Cadia is the second largest open cut mine in Australia after the Super Pit at Kalgoorlie. The Cadia East, Cadia Extended, and Ridgeway deposits are considered to be examples of alkalic porphyry gold–copper-style mineralisation. The Big Cadia deposit is a skarn style occurrence. The Cadia deposits are located in the eastern Lachlan Fold Belt of NSW and formed within the intra-oceanic Macquarie Arc, a belt of Ordovician to early Silurian mafic to intermediate volcanic, volcaniclastic and intrusive rocks.
06Lebel Gold Project (QC)
The Lebel Gold project area lies to Abitibi Greenstone Belt, a renowned and prime area for gold exploration such as Discovery (2 120 520 t @ 5.11 g/t Au), Flordin (2 199 000 t @ 2.0 g/t Au), Bachelor Lake (841 591 t @ 7.79 g/t Au), Shortt Lake (2 694 920 t @ 4.59 g/t Au), Rose Lake (200 000 to 300 000 t @ 6.86 g/t Au). The Abitibi greenstone belt is characterized by lode gold deposits, Cu-Zn massive sulphides and Cu-Zn vein deposits. Gold occurs in veins within shear zones and iron formation, or as disseminated mineralization associated with felsic intrusions (Card and Poulsen, 1998). Volcanic strata are hosts to massive sulphide mineralization.
07Cobar Cu-Au-Zn-Pb Porphyry Mining Camp (Australia)
The Cobar Cu-Au-Zn-Pb-Ag Porphyry Mining Camp lies close to the eastern margin, the Cobar Basin, a shallow to deep marine, extensional, intracratonic basin that extends for >360 km north-south and 150 km east-west within the Central Lachlan Orogen. The field comprised three operating mines CSA, New Cobar and Manuka (Wonawinta). The gold, copper and lead-zinc-silver deposits of the Cobar Mineral Field define a north-south to NNW-SSE aligned >25 km long and up to 1 km wide corridor of shear-controlled mineralization that sub-parallels stratigraphy but obliquely transgresses the host succession northward from the uppermost Chesney Formation, through the Great Cobar Slate into the overlying CSA Siltstone.
08Cadillac Fault Zone Project (QC)
The Cadillac Zone Gold Mining Camp project is located in the southern portion of the Abitibi sub-province of the Superior Province (Quebec), that is considered one of the most prolific areas for gold deposits in the world. The project area is underlain by mafic, and felsic volcanic rocks of Late Archean age. The volcanic domains are separated by narrow and linear belts of clastic sedimentary rocks that are spatially associated with major fault zones. Several large granitic intrusions have been emplaced into the stratigraphy.
The area is renowned for its high concentration of world class orogenic gold deposits such as Canadian Malartic (684.55 t Au), Sigma-Lamaque (293.75 t Au), Goldex (101.54 t Au), Malartic Goldfield (52.9 t Au), Marban (50.23 t Au), Camflo (48.2 t Au) and Lapa (28.21 t Au).
09Gruyere Porphyry Gold
The Gruyere gold deposit is located on the western margin of the Yamarna Terrane, the easternmost segment of the Yilgarn Craton. The western margin of the terrane, which encompasses the Yamarna and Dorothy Hills greenstone belts, is defined by the 350-km long, east dipping Yamarna shear zone that separates it from the older Burtville Tenane to the west. The Yamarna Terrane is extensively covered by Permian and younger sedimentary sequences with only minor outcropping Archaean basement.
Mineralization is almost entirely restricted to the Gruyere Porphyry, which is well mineralized over a strike length of ~1500 m. It ranges from 5 to 10 m wide on its northern and southern extremities, and reaches as much as 190 m in width in its centre. Where undeformed, it is composed of 1 to 2 mm albite phenocrysts, pseudomorphed after plagioclase, set in a matrix of albite with ~20% quartz and minor biotite. It contains xenoliths of country rock, most abundant proximal to the hanging wall contact, and is also intruded by variably deformed mafic, intermediate and felsic dykes.
10Strange Lake REE
Strange Lake REE Internal Project is situated on the provincial border between the Canadian provinces of Québec (QC) and Newfoundland and Labrador (NL), approximately 235 km northeast of Schefferville (QC). This Project lies within the Paleoproterozoic Rae or Southeastern Churchill Province (SECP) located in the northeastern Canadian Shield of Québec and Labrador. The SECP is thought to have formed as a result of oblique collisions involving the Superior and Nain cratons with a third intervening Archean block. Mapping has defined a number of distinctive, north-south trending lithotectonic domains within the SECP east of the Labrador Trough.
The Strange Lake REE deposit is part of a post-tectonic, peralkaline granite complex, which has intruded along the contact between older gneisses and monzonites of the Churchill Province of the Canadian Shield.
Mineralization of interest at Strange Lake occurs within peralkaline granite-hosted pegmatites and aplites and, to a lesser degree, within the host granites, particularly in intra-pegmatitic granites.
11Tennant Creek IOCG Cu-Au Mining Camp
Tennant Creek IOCG Mining Camp Internal Project is situated in the Northern Territory (NT), Australia. The project is considered highly prospective for Iron-Oxide Copper-Gold (IOCG) mineralization. The Palaeoproterozoic Tennant Creek Inlier is elongated in a northnorthwest to northwest direction, covering an area of ~44 000 km2, ~500 km west of the Mount Isa Inlier (Le Messurier et al., 1990).
It is composed of three elements, the central of which, the Warramunga Province, hosts all of the mineralisation. The mineralised province is bounded to the north and south by overlying sequences of the coeval Ashburton and Davenport provinces respectively, while the inlier as a whole is surrounded by flat lying, mainly carbonate facies Cambrian rocks of the Wiso and Georgina basins to the west and east respectively, and by Mesozoic and younger cover.
The Tennant Creek Inlier hosts a cluster of small, but high grade gold-copper-bismuth deposits, associated with magnetite and/ or hematite ironstones, that are distributed over an area of ~70 x 50 km. Examples of the largest and highest grade deposits include Peko (3.2 Mt @ 4% Cu, 3.5 g/t Au, 0.2% Bi, 14 g/t Ag) and Juno (0.45 Mt @ 0.4% Cu, 57 g/t Au, 0.6% Bi, 7 g/t Ag). The total production to 2000 was in excess of 156 tonnes of gold and 345 000 tonnes of copper since mining commenced in the 1930s. (PorterGeo website)