Michael Michaud, P.Geo
President and CEO, Red Pine Exploration Inc.
Talk Abstract:
The Company’s flagship gold property is the 100% owned Wawa Gold Project in the Michipicoten Greenstone Belt near Wawa, Ontario. The property is highlighted by continuous gold mineralization starting from surface and extending up to 1,200 metres down dip thus providing optionality for potential future open pit and underground development scenarios.
The Wawa Gold Project hosts a large and polyphase gold system developed during multiple stages of mineralization in a calc-alkaline to tholeiitic intrusive complex named the Jubilee Stock dated at ca. 2,745 Ma.
• Intrusion-related gold mineralization first occurred during the formation of the Jubilee Stock and is characterized by disseminations of pyrite, pyrrhotite and arsenopyrite, hosted in zones of silica-sodic alteration.
• IRG mineralization was followed by three stages of orogenic gold mineralization. The first two stages corresponded to a progressive compressive deformation event that peaked with the formation of the Jubilee Shear, the largest gold mineralized structure observed so far on the Wawa Gold Project. Deformation leading to the development of penetrative and strong L tectonic fabrics and stretched quartz veins that typically predominate over S tectonic fabrics. The second stage of gold mineralization was coeval with early compression and formed quartz shear veins with arsenopyrite and remobilized gold. The third stage of gold mineralization corresponds to peak compressive quartz veins with pyrite and pyrrhotite, with localized chalcopyrite, sphalerite and galena.
• The final stage of gold mineralization corresponds to a change of deformation regime from compression to extension. Gold during that fourth stage was concentrated in quartz-tourmaline shear veins hosted in extensional shear zones. The resulting mineralization minerals include native gold and produce some of the richest zones of gold mineralization observed in the Jubilee and Minto deposits.
The different mineralization stages are now integrated in a holistic exploration strategy that takes advantage of the multi-dimensionality of the gold system and of the interactions between each mineralization events. For example, in the Jubilee Shear, exploration at depth is targeting areas where arrays of early to syn-deformation quartz veins stretched in the lineation are interpreted to intersect the plunge defined by mineralization of the extensional event.
Speaker Bio:
Mr. Michaud is a Geologist with over 30 years of experience in domestic and international gold exploration and mining that includes a broad range of deposit types within North and South America, Africa, Asia and Europe.
Previously Michael served as Wesdome Gold Mines Ltd. Senior Vice President, Exploration and Resources, and Iamgold’s Chief Geologist
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