Thread by @PeterNBell

@bill3658 this picture is impressive. Thanks @OminecaMining for first geological map of WINGDAM. Great to stacked geological horizons marked out. Amazing to see how close the local mines are to geological contacts...

PHR - Harvey's Ridge.
HR- Ramos.

Important rock units in Cariboo orogenic gold models. Thanks @GeoscienceBC !

geosciencebc.com/i/project_data…

Thanks @MDRUubc !

This is starting to look really interesting to me. Not a geologist, but I love to see big bends in the geological contacts. Especially when the follow topography in some way.

And the cross-cutting quartz veins? I was not expecting that. I count 3 different orientations. Weird.

Funny to see that new showing of quartz on the hillside is roughly similar distance away from the Harvey's Ridge contact as the Wingdam Mine staging area. Probably nothing, but I wonder?

"Quartz Vein Hunting Program" sounds good to me. Get the winkie drill going : )

Z-folds, eh? Hmm...

I wonder...

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"Shear band cutting a previously formed, extensional quartz-ferroan carbonate vein, Cariboo Gold Quartz mine (from Rhys et al., 2009)."

Yes, please! I can just imagine how much @nawatatweet wants to see some of this stuff again. This time on ground...

"(c) North-trending pyritic shear vein with well-developed internal shear fabrics and external rotation of host rock foliation. Dextral shear sense. (d) Pyritic shear vein flanked by an extensional vein array, Cariboo Gold Quartz mine, 1200 level, view up at the back"

#BCmining

news today, "Stephen Kocsis notes that this structural control pattern is analogous to some of the gold mineralized structures found at Barkerville, specifically the contact between the Hardscrabble and the Downey successions..."

Glad to see geochem before drilling. Duh?

"The first phase of underground placer recovery is planned to be approximately 125 crosscuts, similar in size and scope to the 2012 crosscut bulk sample, over the first 300 m of the estimated 2,400 m of the paleochannel that has been subjected to extensive study..." Yes, please!

"... unusually heavy freshet this year... grout plug system initiated last year, it is anticipated that dewatering should now be reduced to 3-4 weeks followed by rehabilitation and underground preparation time of another 4 weeks before freezing and mining operations are to begin"

"Axiom’s May and June sampling programs collected 170 outcrop samples, of which 143 samples were sent for geochemical analysis... A team from Axiom is currently conducting the soil sampling program which was recommended in the logistics report from the first two programs." Good.

"The current area of exploration and drilling encompasses the large targets identified by the SkyTEM survey as well as targets identified and confirmed by Omineca’s 2018/19 airborne UAV magnetic survey program."

@OminecaMining is hitting their marks.