Alexis Minerals believes there’s another gold mine in Val d’Or
If the best place to find a mine is indeed in the shadow of a headframe, perhaps the odds favour Alexis Minerals. The company is poking around behind some 20 headframes in the historic Val d’Or mining camp of northwestern Quebec. Alexis owns 212-sq.-km in the camp and boasts eight past-producing gold and base metal mines. In 2004, Alexis signed an option deal to acquire a combined 17 gold and base metal properties from Aur Resources. The 110-sq.-km package straddles 25 km of strike extension of the favourable Val d’Or formation, host to the formerly producing Louvicourt, Dunraine No. 4, Manitou-Barvue and Louvem base metal deposits. More recently, Alexis consolidated ownership of the Aurbel property along with the 1,400 tonne-per-day Aurbel gold mill. The property hosts the advanced Lac Herbin quartz-vein gold project. Staff writer Ryan Walker recently visited the historic camp in northwestern Quebec and these are his photos.
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