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The Mount Nelson property is gently rolling with no infrastructure except for a couple of regional logging roads. The property could be considered a "stage two" exploration because of the regional mapping and soil geochemistry results.
The geological setting of the property does appear favourable for large tonnage – low grade copper – molybdenum, porphyry type deposit. Geological mapping resulted in the location of a quartz porphyry plug within the granite intrusive. Soil geochemistry anomalies occur around the perimeter of this plug with a general trend towards the southeast (overlying the gabbro plugs). A thin section petrographic report was completed on a couple of rock samples from the Quartz Monzodiorite unit, at an unknown location. One sample was mineralized and magnetite rich while the other unmineralized sample was partly foliated with no magnetite. The findings showed that the molybdenum grains were not found within the magnetite grains but rather more closely associated with the Kspar, epidote, pyrite and muscovite grains (Leitch, 2008). Even though, the mineralized sample contained magnetite, it was found not to be directly associated with the molybdenum, but a post deposition/remobilization process. Therefore, it appears that there may be a specific geophysical signature associated with the mineralization. No geophysical surveys have been conducted to investigate this theory further. All mapping and soil geochemistry data is in electronic except for the geographical data. Limited Minfiles are available for this property and mostly deal with previous silica exploration. |