Galantas Gold Corporation aims to find new mineralisation in the Gairloch Schist belt by establishing the geochemical signature of its Kerry Road deposit in Wester Ross.
VMS DEPOSIT
The Canadian company previously said that its July 2023 drill results showed the potential for a district-scale polymetallic project at the site.
Galantas will determine the location of new mineralisation by using findings from current sampling conducted with the University of Edinburgh of drill core and outcrop.
Work includes petrology, scanning electron microscope and electron microprobe analysis on selected rock samples.
Galantas expects the sampling will help identify new target areas for follow-up exploration work and drilling.
The company said that the Kerry Road copper-zinc-gold deposit was classified as a Besshi-type VMS deposit, which is associated with cobalt enrichment.
“Additionally, its host rocks appear to be geologically similar to those in the Trans-Hudson Orogen in Manitoba and Saskatchewan which contain the prolific Flin-Flon and Snow Lake VMS mining camps.
“This makes the Kerry Road deposit an important potential resource for the future.”
Results will be compared with new and existing data from other metamorphosed VMS deposits of the Yilgarn Craton in Western Australia.
The programme is supported by grants from the Geological Society of London and Geological Society of Glasgow awarded to the University of Edinburgh PhD student Cendi Dana.
Galantas chief executive Mario Stifano added: “We are honoured to collaborate with the University of Edinburgh and look forward to the results of this detailed work.
“The team at the university’s School of Geosciences brings experience in cutting-edge research and expert knowledge of VMS systems to help us better understand the Kerry Road deposit and determine the location of other mineralised bodies in the vicinity.”
Galantas is also undertaking surface drilling, targeting inferred resource, at its other project at Cavanacaw mine in Omagh, Northern Ireland.
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