Constraints on the geology, geochemistry, origin, and regional correlations of Paleoproterozoic gold-bearing rocks, Fisher property, northern Saskatchewan**

加拿大拥有得天独厚的自然资源，特别是加拿大北部的经济发展是由对这些资源的寻找和可持续开发推动的。例如，安大略省魁北克省和西北地区的大多数大型金矿都与断层和石英脉有关，这些断层和石英脉切割了加拿大盾的岩石，时代为太古宙(超过25亿年)。这些金矿是在古老的造山事件中形成的，因此被称为“造山金矿”，最近在努纳武特较年轻的古元古代(25亿至16亿年前)岩石中发现了一些重要的此类矿床。该项目是与SSR矿业公司共同开发的，该公司经营着位于萨斯喀彻温省北部类似年代岩石中的Seabee Gold Operation。该公司一直在运营最近关闭的Seabee金矿和邻近的Santoy金矿，并正在积极勘探邻近地区，寻找新的、有望实现经济的金矿成矿。具体来说，该项目将成为M.Sc的一部分。在萨斯喀彻温省大学的论文，并将重点分析具有代表性的各种岩石类型的样品从勘探财产。岩石的薄片将被用来确定矿物、结构和矿物的组成，使用岩相显微镜和电子探针分析；后一种技术通常不是矿产公司所能获得的。还将分析部分岩石的整体化学成分，这将限制岩石形成时的来源和构造环境。最终，该公司将更好地了解该地区岩石的来源，并能够将勘探重点放在最有可能容纳新矿藏的岩石类型上。新矿藏的发现将在萨斯喀彻温省北部这片与世隔绝的加拿大盾地区引发经济活动。

Canada is well endowed with natural resources, and economic development in northern Canada, in particular, is driven by the search for, and sustainable exploitation of these resources. As an example, most of the large gold deposits in Quebec, Ontario, and the NWT, are associated with faults and quartz veins that cut rocks of the Canadian Shield that are Archean in age (older than 2.5 billion years old). These are called "orogenic gold deposits" as they formed during ancient, mountain building events, and recently some significant examples of this type of deposit have been discovered in younger, Paleoproterozoic (2.5 to 1.6 billion years old) rocks in Nunavut. SSR Mining, the company with which this proposal has been developed, operates the Seabee Gold Operation, which is within similar age rocks in northern Saskatchewan. The company has been operating the Seabee gold deposit, which recently closed, and the adjacent Santoy deposit, and are actively exploring the adjacent area in the search for new, and hopefully, economic gold mineralization. In detail, the project will form part of a M.Sc. thesis at the University of Saskatchewan, and will focus on the analysis of representative samples of the various rock types from the exploration property. Thin sections of the rocks will be used to determine the minerals, textures, and the composition of the minerals, using petrographic microscopy, and electron microprobe analysis; the latter technique is not routinely available to minerals companies. A portion of the rocks will also be analyzed for their overall chemical composition, which will provide constraints on the origin, and tectonic setting at the time the rocks formed. In the end, the company will have a better understanding of the origin of the rocks in the region, and be able to focus their exploration on the rock types with the best chance of hosting new deposits. The discovery of a new deposit would spark economic activity in this isolated part of the Canadian Shield in northern Saskatchewan.