The Kensington and Jualin deposits are located in the Berners Bay mining district which lies on the northern end of the Juneau Gold Belt, a 120 mile long, 10 mile wide structural zone containing numerous mesothermal gold deposits. The district is flanked by Triassic aged mafic metavolcanic rocks to the east-northeast and Cretaceous aged pelitic sediments to the west-southwest. The contact between these two units has been intruded by the northwest-trending, Cretaceous aged Jualin Diorite stock measuring approximately five miles long by three miles wide. Regional deformation and shearing within and adjacent to the Jualin Diorite has resulted in emplacement of numerous goldbearing, mesothermal quartz-carbonate vein deposits.
The Kensington deposit is a mesothermal orogenic deposit of gold-bearing quartz veins.
The Project area retains additional exploration potential, as many of the areas along the three district-scale structural trends (Comet, Orval, and Lion’s Head shear zones) that host numerous gold occurrences have received only limited modern exploration attention.
The deposits with economic significance exhibit two distinct habits:
1. High-grade shear-hosted veins of limited strike and dip length within a narrow halo of locally auriferous quartz-veined diorite, and
2. Vein packages comprised of extensional vein arrays, sheeted extensional veins, and stacked en-echelon shear veins.
Vein mineralization is cha ........
