Old is Now New
Date/Time: Tuesday, November 4 | (1:30 – 2:30 pm)
Location: Embassy Room
Hudbay Minerals: Geology of 1901 Deposit, Snow Lake, MB
Session Overview:
The recently discovered 1901 Deposit of Hudbay Minerals Inc. is one of seven Zn-Cu-Au volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposits that occur in the Chisel Lake sequence of the Snow Lake area.
The 1901 deposit is located 1.25 km northwest of the Chisel North deposit and 1.5 km south-southeast of the Lalor deposit. Each of these three deposits occur at depths of over 600 m within strongly deformed, metamorphosed, hydrothermally altered, calc alkaline volcanic rocks. All three deposits are structurally overlain by a thick sequence of volcanic rocks with arc tholeiite affinities.
At the 1901 deposit the contact between the altered VMS-hosting calc-alkaline volcanic rocks and the overlying arc tholeiite volcanic rocks is a flat-lying to shallow NE dipping fault. The fault, known as the Chisel-Lalor Fault, is identified as the strata in the hanging wall are oriented at oblique angles to it. The fault also separates strongly altered footwall rocks from less altered hanging wall rocks.
Faults like the Chisel Lalor Fault at Snow Lake are difficult to recognize in volcanic domains, but they are important to identify as they can dissect and repeat favourable rock formations, obscure volcanic stratigraphy and can lead to erroneous exploration models for the contained VMS deposits.
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Speakers
Nei Richardson, Hudbay Minerals Director of Exploration and Co-chair, MAMI Exploration Committee
Neil Richardson has worked in the mining/exploration industry for over 34 years for junior and major mining companies. He is currently Director of Exploration for Hudbay Minerals Inc. Early in his career he worked as a mine exploration geologist in base metals and gold environments. He then became a Chief Operating Officer for various junior mining companies, exploring for nickel-copper-PGE’s in Canada and Greenland; gold in Nevada and Manitoba; and copper-zinc in Ontario and Manitoba.
He graduated from Cambrian College with a Geological Engineering Technology diploma. In addition to co-chairing MAMI’s Indigenous Relations and Exploration Committee, he currently sits on the technical advisory board for a junior mining company. He is a member of the Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario, Engineering Geoscientists Manitoba, and Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada.
Neil cares about making sure people understand the importance of sustainable, environmentally friendly exploration and the evolving understanding of deposits and their characteristics. He believes in the importance of exploration to find metals to continue to build new technology (green energy) and to show the world that mining is an environmentally friendly industry focused on working towards a cleaner future.
Kelsey Privett, Kinross Gold
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