NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Regions: North Slave Region

Tags: physical sciences, geology, volcanic rocks, rock chemistry, mineralogy

Objective(s): To understand the environment in which the volcanic rocks were formed; and, To understand if the styles of mineralization formed at the same time as the volcanoes or much later.

Project Description: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5565. The purpose of this project is designed to understand the environment in which the volcanic rocks were formed. The styles of mineralization will be looked at to understand if they formed at the same time as the volcanoes or much later. This work will be done by analyzing rock chemistry, and looking at very thin pieces of the core. This work will help understand the mineralization and may make finding additional mineralization possible. To carry out this study, core will be transported from the Gold Terra Resources Corp. core storage facility to the Geological Materials Storage Facility in Yellowknife. In that facility the historic core will be laid out on tables with detailed notes taken about the core. Notes will be taken on the type of rock, the temperature and pressures the rocks experienced, the type of mineralization, the type of alteration the rocks experienced, and structural information we can collect. To do this the core will be observed and then small pieces of the rock will be taken to send away to labs to get the chemical and mineralogical data. This work will be written up as an Open File published through the Northwest Territories Geological Survey. The work will be presented in Yellowknife in November at the Yellowknife Geoscience Forum. This work will be available free to charge to any interested groups. The fieldwork for this study will be conducted from: June 12 - September 15, 2023