“Gowganda-hosted deformation veins as source of indicator minerals for underlying mineralization at the Young-Davidson Mine”.

The goal of this project is to develop a new technique to identify zones of potential gold mineralization hosted in Archean syenites that lie beneath overburden rocks of the Gowganda formation at the Young Davidson Mine, Matachewan, Ontario. Extensive field mapping of veins, fractures and deformation structures will be conducted to better understand the deformation and fluid interaction history of these rocks and how this may have redistributed gold from the underlying Archean basement. This will be accomplished by geochemical analysis of veins and their minerals including rutile, which where associated with gold mineralization, has specific chemical components.

Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Linnen

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Partner:

AuRico Gold Inc

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Mining

University:

Western University

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