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muscovite

White mica, KAl2Si3AlO10(OH,F)2, a common silicate mineral. It is colourless to silvery white with shiny surfaces, and like all micas it splits into thin flakes along its one perfect cleavage. Muscovite is a metamorphic mineral occurring mainly in schists; it is also found in some granites, and appears as shiny flakes on bedding planes of some sandstones.



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All three drill holes intersected highly altered mafic volcanic rocks containing ankerite, sericite, fuchsite disseminated pyrite and quartz veins, similar to the lithologies hosting gold in the McEnaney Mine.
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All three holes intersected intensely altered and sheared zones ranging from 17 to 32 m wide (core length) containing ankerite, sericite, fuchsite disseminated pyrite and quartz veins, suggesting that the mineralized zones may have been intersected.
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Gold mineralization occurs within a broad deformation - alteration zone (quartz, ankerite, sericite, fuchsite, pyrite) termed the Thibault Horizon, and is located approximately 1 km to the south of the Golden River Deformation Zone.
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