Noront Resources

High-grade Ni-Cu-Pt-Pd-Au-Ag-Rh-Cr-V discoveries in the "Ring of Fire" NI 43-101 Update (March 2011): 11.0 Mt @ 1.78% Ni, 0.98% Cu, 0.99 gpt Pt and 3.41 gpt Pd and 0.20 gpt Au (M&I) / 9.0 Mt @ 1.10% Ni, 1.14% Cu, 1.16 gpt Pt and 3.49 gpt Pd and 0.30 gpt Au (Inf.)

about 15 years ago

in response to Milsy1's message

Wow Lar, you never cease to amaze. Thank you.

You're welcome, everyone. I'm just glad that y'all are receptive to my musings.

I am not sure if you have conveyed your thoughts on the likelihood of consistent grades for the mineralization below E1. If not, what are your thoughts? We will certainly not hold you to your thoughts but I sure would be interested in hearing them.

Of course, I can only speculate. I've pondered how to answer that for some time. My best answer would be "similar grades".

One of our human limitations is our difficulty in grasping events that occur at a scale, a size, a dimension, that are outside of our day-to-day experiences. Thus my comment yesterday to interpret the scale of Eagle 1 deep drilling in terms of football fields. Most North Americans, at least, can grasp that.

Now, very early on, Dr. Mungall stated that the Eagle 1 conduit was best modelled as a structure measured in kilometres. But, because of erosion, we don't know how much of it still remains, i.e. whether we're nearer the beginning or the end of its journey. It surely hit some sort of a chamber, eventually. But just where that might be, and if it has not also been eroded away, is unknown to us. Maybe Noront has a clue or two, but they're not talking. Yet. Except for the talk about an upgraded drill rig.

I've used this image before, and I think it's important simply as an example of what type of structure we may have discovered. This image is of NRN's Wabassi intrusion not far to the SW of the Eagle 1 deposit. It's important, IMHO, because it shows two things: 1) the sheer size of the various components (interpreted conduit well over 3 km in length); and, 2) the fact that the conduit did not return evidence for massive sulphides (at this scale of imaging), whereas the chambers clearly did. A further limitation of this image is that it is something of a cross-section, with much lost to erosion. Anyway, a Voisey type deposit at the ROF is not off the table. A near-surface Voisey ovoid almost certainly is, unless it is masked by other surface features.

Lar