Identifying Potential Economic Mining Targets from Fluid Event Characterization

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Mineral exploration is inherently difficult. Exploration companies employ a variety of strategies to minimize risk and maximize their likely hood of success. One of the most common such strategy is identifying similarities between potential exploration target and known economic deposits. The geological conditions required for resource accumulation are often transient with the specific tectonics, fluids, and geological traps necessary to create a deposit coinciding over brief intervals. This makes quantifying the timing information of potential targets critical to exploration strategies.Enduro Metals' Newmont Lake Exploration Project is located in the middle of the "Golden Triangle" mineral district of British Columbia. It is host to a variety of mineral showings with unknown relationships to regional, world-class mineral deposits. The partnership between the University of British Columbia, Okanagan researchers and Enduro metals will characterize, in detail, the different mineral showings withing the Newmont Lake property. This work will include quantifying the sources and timing of fluid movement related to mineralization. The information gleaned from the partnership will allow correlation of the various potential exploration targets with known deposits regionally, helping focus future exploration on the most prospective mineral showings.