BONAPARTE - PICTURES & VIDEO
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BIG ROCK SHOWING
BIG ROCK SHOWING
Below are a series of still-pictures from the Big Rock 2 Video showcasing some of the mineralization across the approximate 5’ x 5’ mineralized face of the boulder. Unfortunately, no samples have been taken from this boulder to this point in time .
Looking toward the top RH corner of the large blown-up image immediately below, there appears to be a very clean porphyritic component to the rock and going around in circles on what rock-type it is, I have come to the conclusion it is as seen and described in Fig. 4. Sample 12JLO50-38, Page 61 and linked below.
“Quartz diorite porphyry (“dark matrix porphyry’’ of Peatfield, 1986) is pervasively biotite-altered, well foliated and lineated, and hosts disseminated chalcopyrite (Fig. 4). Typically, the diorite is coarse grained and contains white plagioclase (35%), altered hornblende (5%), distinctive, sparse blue quartz eyes in a fine-grained matrix of prismatic hornblende (20%), and intra-crystalline plagioclase-feldspar ± quartz containing biotite, apatite, titanite, magnetite and pyrite. The quartz diorite yielded a population of euhedral stubby zircons similar in size and appearance to those from 12JL”.
https://cmscontent.nrs.gov.bc.ca/geoscience/PublicationCatalogue/Paper/BCGS_P2014-01.pdf.
DIORITE QUARTZ PORPHYRY
*Note what appears to be a fluid channel running up the center of the picture (above).
The mineralization in the rock is quite spectacular in my opinion
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Below are several pictures of a porphyritic float sample taken from the property with the coordinates shown in the 1st picture. The sample was broken into a few pieces and washed. Ironically, it does not appear to be the same quartz-diorite porphyry rock type as seen in Figure 4 sample 12JLO50-38. or monzodoirite porphyry as per sample Sample 12JLO50-31 from the same document. if i was to venture a guess, it wold be that it is an andesite porphyry. If that holds true, we now have 3 porphyry rock-types within the immediate vicinity of the Discovery Zone.
The 2nd picture (to the right) is from a section of the same rock and was taken with a iPhone 10 through the lens of a Seiwa jeweler’s - geologist’s microscope (unknown magnification).
Chalcopyrite, phenocrysts of plagoiclase feldspar, quartz, biotite, sericite along with various other minerals, metals and crystals may also be seen.
NOTE: XRF analyses of this sample indicates an average between 0.1% - 0.3% Copper and +/- 1.5% Sulfur
Three porphyry rock types? (see below)
