The age and genesis of the mineralization, keg property, Yukon

位于育空地区中部的法鲁镇建于1968年，为曾经是世界上最大的铅锌矿的Anvil矿提供服务。Anvil矿曾多次关闭和重新开放，但最终于1998年关闭。从那以后，该地区的经济发展很少。 银岭资源公司有一系列称为Keg项目的权利要求，该项目有22个矿化区，距离Faro镇10-45公里。 感兴趣的主要商品是银、铅和锌，但前景不寻常，因为它们还含有相当高的锡和铟。铟是一种“战略性”金属，越来越多地用于平板屏幕的液晶显示器。 据认为，矿化是由来自该地区的火成岩侵入体的热液流体形成的，但不知道哪些侵入体是重要的，以及这些侵入体的年龄。 似乎至少有两代的银矿化的不同来源，但这些事件是否相关尚不清楚。该提案旨在匹配银岭资源的资金，以支持两个研究生项目。 这些项目的目的是确定不同类型矿化的性质、起源和年龄，并建立Keg财产矿化的地质模型。 这将有助于该公司完善其勘探战略，并为未来的钻探计划选择目标。

The town of Faro, in Central Yukon, was built in 1968 to service the Anvil mine, once the largest lead-zinc mines in the world. The Anvil mine closed and re-opened several times but operations were finally shut down in 1998. Since then there has been little economic development in the area. Silver Range Resources has a series of claims called the Keg Project with 22 zones of mineralization which are 10-45 km from the Faro town-site. The main commodities of interest are silver, lead and zinc but the prospects are unusual in that they also contain quite high amounts of tin and indium. Indium is a "strategic" metal, which is increasingly used in liquid crystal displays for flat panel screens. It is thought the mineralization is formed by hydrothermal fluids which come from igneous intrusions in the area but it is not known which intrusions are important and the age of these intrusions. There appears to be at least two generations of silver mineralization of quite different origins but whether these events are related is not known. This proposal seeks to match funding from Silver Range Resources to support two graduate student projects. The aims of these projects are to determine the nature, origin and age of the different styles of mineralization and to build a geological model of the mineralization on the Keg Property. This will help the company to refine their exploration strategies and to choose targets for future drilling programs.