Overview
- A historic and proven area
- Recognised as one of Canada’s largest uranium mining districts
- Total historical production across the area (pre-1982) was:
- 13,700,000 pounds of uranium oxide (U3O8)
- 34,300,000 ounces of refined silver
- 11,377,040lbs of copper with gold credits, and
- 127,000 kilograms of nickel, 227,000kg of cobalt and 104,000kg lead
- Historical focus on U, Ag overlooked significant Cu and Au potential
Geology
- Great Bear Magmatic Zone – Identified as having Canada’s highest probability for the hosting of iron-oxide-copper-gold uranium plus silver-style mineralisation in the Country
- Hosts a spectrum of mineralisation styles within the broad IOCG hydrothermal model
- Epithermal – Ag, Au, Cu, U,
- Skarn – Ag, Cu, Mo, Pb, Zn, W
- IOCG – Au, Ag, Co, Cu, +/- U
- Untapped Potential – Copper and Gold were never the focus of historic exploration work
- Historic Data – A wealth of data, that until now has never been fully integrated into GIS
