Slave Lake Zinc Identifies Pegmatite, Zinc-Lead-Copper Intersects in Historic Drill Logs
to focus exploration using geological mapping, sampling, and ground geophysical surveys to
target drilling pegmatites and verify the historic intercepts of zinc-lead mineralization.
The company is looking to establish a resource at the O'Connor Lake project and can achieve
this by a confirmation drill program of the historic intercepts as well as targeting additional
areas for zinc-lead mineralization. As part of this program, the lithium potential of the known
pegmatites will also be evaluated. The country host rocks in the MCO area are comprised of a multiple-phased granitic intrusive
complex which intrudes older regional metamorphic rocks. Sills and dykes of pegmatite cut the
older metasedimentary units and earlier stage intrusives. The pegmatites are closely associated
with the youngest intrusive, a muscovite granite, as structural continuations and in
composition. The area where the 1951 drilling was undertaken has a series of major deep-
seated structures along which the multiple-stage dyke swarms were able to intrude during the
final phases of intrusive activity. Very late-stage hydrothermal systems were also able to
intrude and deposit in the same fracture systems as veins and stockworks. This style of
hydrothermal zinc-lead-copper deposition is the same as observed nearby at the Company's
known occurrences.