Encouraging geophysical results from Mauken greenstone belt gold prospect, northern Norway
Scandinavian Highlands Holding AS is pleased to report encouraging results from a geophysical survey at the Mauken greenstone belt gold licence.
A detailed, ground-based FDEM survey, confirms airborne TEM anomalies from 2006. The survey indicates a strong potential for a surface-near sulphide mineralisation situated along trend from “Main Zone” gold mineralisation, discovered in late 2008. The TEM and FDEM anomaly can be traced for more than 1000 m. The strong geophysical anomalies also coincide with highly anomalous geochemical stream sediment samples collected in the area.
Further work, including trenching, will commence in the nearby future.
Updated project descriptions are available from:
I) the Harz SEDEX Project
II) the Mauken Gold Project
III) the Falun VMS Projects
IV) the Råna Ni-Cu-Co Project
V) the Orrefjell Uranium Project.
Update on the joint research project on the Falun geology between Scandinavian highlands Luleå University of Technology, and Boliden.
Harz Minerals preparing for second phase of drilling in Gosetal
Harz Minerals GmbH is prospecting for a SEDEX deposit near the World class Rammelsberg mine in the Harz Mountains, northern Germany. Presently, the first phase of its drilling programme in the Gosetal area has been completed. This first phase was aimed at a relative shallow target, formed by a folded conductor at 100-300 m depth.
Three out of the ten originally planned drill holes have now been drilled successfully. The first phase of the drilling included evaluation of the drill core, and down-hole and ground electromagnetic surveys. The results confirmed the modeled fold geometry of the shales in the underground. The near-surface conductor, that was predicted based on modeling of the 2008 airborne TEM data, could not be confirmed. But down-hole EM soundings indicated the presence of a conductor at ca. 500 m depth. A relatively deep conductor is also predicted by the low frequency component of the EM data from the 2008 airborne TEM survey. This deep location places the conductor at stratigraphic level that is similar to that of the close-by Rammelsberg mine. Further geophysical surveys will be carried out within the coming weeks to try and obtain a better definition of the deep conductor.
After evaluation and modeling of these new geophysical data, drilling will continue to try and hit this deeper target.
Update on gold discovery in Mauken greenstone belt
Scandinavian Highlands provides an update on the continuing work on the Paleoproterozoic Mauken greenstone belt gold deposit.
Late season field work has resulted in further increase of gold mineralised localities. The gold mineralised alteration zone (termed ‘Main Zone’) can now be traced along strike for more than 1750 m. The potential for even larger mineralised system is very much present and the Main Zone is open in both ends. Presently the highest rock sample yield 5.78 g/t Au.
Regional and district scale structural data analysis, emphasize the mineral potential of Mauken greenstone belt. The greenstone belt is associated with trans-scandinavian deformation-, fault and shear zones hosting prominent polymetalic deposits in Sweden and Finland.
Project description are available in PDF format and in a shorter PPT presentation:
Drilling in the Gosetal area about to start
Drilling in the Gosetal area in the Harz Mountains by Harz Minerals GmbH, a fully owned subsidiary of Scandinavian Highlands, is about to start. The Landesamt für Bergbau, Energie und Geologie in Clausthal-Zellerfeld has given the green light to start with the drilling. On 22 October the drill rig and crew of Soumen Malmi Oy (SMOY), a drilling company from Finland, member of the Drillcon Group, arrived on the drilling location. The rig and all equipment is being prepared and within a few days drilling will commence.
The drilling programme exists initially of four holes between 250 and 450 m depth to test the electromagnetic anomaly that was discovered during the airborne TEM survey in 2008. This test phase is expected to be finished before Christmas 2009.
On Sunday 25 October Scandinavian Highlands will present an update of the present status of the project to the General public in the Rammelsberg mine museum in Goslar. The presentation will follow the monthly Matinee at the museum, which starts at 11:00 o’clock in the morning.
Presentation of the Gosetal drilling project at Rammelsberg museum
On Sunday 27 September will representatives of Scandinavian Highlands present the exploration drilling project in the Gosetal area to the citizens of Goslar at the Rammelsberg mine museum. The presentation will be held as part of the monthly Sunday matinee that is organized by the museum. The matinee will start at 11:00.
Further updates on the progress of the drilling campaign will be presented at the same forum, the last Sunday of October and November.
The Rammelsberg mine Museum (www.rammelsberg.de) is a Unesco World Heritage site. The historic mine hosted a world-class Pb-Zn-Cu deposit and lies about two kilometers east of the Gosetal area, where the exploration drilling will take place.
Harz Minerals GmbH obtains drilling permission in the West Harz licence
Harz Minerals GmbH, the fully-owned daughter company of Scandinavian Highlands Holding A/S, has been granted permission from the Bergamt in Clausthal (LBEG) to drill up to 10 holes to a maximum depth of 600 m in the Gosetal area in the Harz Mountains. In first instance four holes will be drilled to test the geophysical and geological model of the conductor that was found by the 2008 deep penetration EM survey. Negotiations are underway with drilling companies and drilling is expected to start in mid-October.
We found the landowners in the project area very obliging to our requests to be granted access to their properties for drilling or thoroughfare with equipment.
An optimal geophysical/geological model of the conductor shows an overturned antiform-synform pair, not unlike the situation at Rammelsberg. Calculations of volumes and thicknesses based on the geophysical data, and assuming physical characteristics of a mineralization of an average Pb-Zn deposit, allows for the presence of an ore body that is larger than the nearby world class Rammelsberg Pb-Zn-Cu deposit. Soil Gas Hydrocarbon analyses gave earlier this year an independent indication of the presence of a SEDEX type mineralisation.
New potential for gold mineralisation in Mauken greenstone belt
Northern Highlands ApS reports that the potential of the Mauken greenstone belt gold project has been significantly increased. 14 channel samples across the gold mineralised zones give promising results. In addition to grade-bearing channel sample intersections, the discovery of new gold mineralised outcrops, the auriferous silicified “Main Zone” can now be tracked for more than 1050 m along a gently warping strike.
Additional zones with significant mineralisation potential are located within the banded amphibolite unit. An en echelon system of minor gold-bearing arsenopyrite mineralised zones associated with smaller isolated quartz veins was found north of Main Zone. So far three individual mineralised quartz veins have been located, but could potentially be much larger.
Another new significant discovery from this summer’s fieldwork is a shear-hosted quartz-ankerite vein system, associated with gold-mineralisation in disseminated chalcopyrite-pyrite. The actual size of the mineralised flat lying shear zone is unknown, but preliminary results points towards a rather large area.
Detailed follow-up mapping and lithogeochemical sampling is planned for August 2009.
Soil Gas hydrocarbon sampling in Bergslagen
Following the success using the soil gas hydrocarbon (SGH) technology in our Harzen SEDEX Project, Germany we have applied the method on our Swedish exploration areas.
Eastern Highlands AB conducted the soil survey on our primary target area of Holmen within the Falun-1 license. The results of the survey strongly indicate the presence of a VMS type mineralisation which confirms our previously obtained TEM and MAG anomalies of the Holmen area.
This is encouraging news since three independent exploration techniques confirms our target.
Analysis and interpretation of the SGH survey was done by Activation Laboratories Ltd, Ontario, Canada.
Soil Gas Hydrocarbon (SGH) sampling in Gosetal
Harz Minerals GmbH has received the results of a soil gas survey that has been made in the Gosetal area, Harz, Germany.
The results strongly support the presence of a SEDEX type mineralisation. Further more, the soil gas anomalies closely correspond to the previous obtained TEM anomalies.
Harz Minerals finds the outcome of the survey particularly encouraging as the results given by soil gas technology provide fully independent evidence of ore mineralisation compared to the results achieved from helicopter borne TEM survey.
Analysis and interpretation was done by Activation Laboratories Ltd, Ontario, Canada.
Research Project on the mineralisation in the Falun Mine, Bergsalgen, Sweden
Scandinavian Highlands Holding A/S has commenced our Falun Research Project in cooperation with the ore department at Luleå Technical University, Boliden Mineral AB and Bergskraft Bergslagen. We have begun logging and sampling of core material from the SGU core archive in Malå. This is a long term commitment to the geology of Falun. Our objective is to use modern geological and analytical techniques to understand the mineral genesis of Falun with the intension to use this in exploration in the NW Bergslagen.
New significant gold discovery in Mauken greenstone belt
New gold discovery in the Paleoproterozoic Mauken greenstone belt. News release in PPT format below.
Ground based magnetic survey completed on Falun prospects
Eastern Highlands AB has completed two ground magnetic surveys on our two main target areas with promising results. The two surveys verify our airborne iTEM and ground CVES anomalies, and substantiate our planned drilling for 2009.
Harz Minerals project presentation for PDAC 2009
See project presentation in PDF format.
Eastern Highlands AB opens office in Sweden
Eastern Highlands AB opens office in Falun, Sweden. The Falun office will serve as base for our exploration activities in the highly prospective Bergslagen Province.
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