Terrace Bay

In 2009  spent approximately two weeks visiting and resampling several gold showings on the Little Bear Lake property in northern Manitoba.  The property consists of several shear-hosted auriferous quartz veins which cut the granodioritic Maskwa Lake Batholith.

I spent approximately two weeks visiting and resampling several gold showings on the Little Bear Lake property in northern Manitoba in 2009.  The property is dominated by different phases of granite which make up the Maskwa Lake Batholith.  Other phases present on the property consist of quartz diorite, syenogranite and feldspar porphyry.  Lesser fine grained mafic dykes and coarse grained gabbros are found on the property and clearly crosscut the granitoid.

The mafic dykes commonly occur within the structures that are host to auriferous quartz veins.  The narrow but continuous quartz veins can yield multi-ounce gold values, particularly when chalcopyrite, sphalerite and/or galena is present.  Several trends to the shear systems have been noted by previous workers, and can be traced along strike for several kilometers.