The president of Aur Resources, James Gill, will discuss his company’s Louvicourt copper-zinc-gold-silver deposit at the Oct. 20 luncheon of the Toronto branch of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum.
The deposit, 25 km northeast of Val d’Or, Que., and discovered in 1989, is being developed into a 4,000-tonne-per-day mine. The orebody lies 400-900 metres below surface and is 30% owned by Aur, 45% by Novicourt and 25% by Teck. The project shipped its first copper concentrate this summer. Earlier this year, reserves were downgraded significantly; Aur announced a new reserve estimate of 15.7 million tonnes grading 3.4% copper and 2.2% zinc, off from 26.5 million tonnes grading 4.2% copper and 2.2% zinc. What was believed to be a series of stacked massive sulphide zones occurring on several stratigraphic horizons has been re-interpreted as several zones occurring on one main horizon that has undergone folding.
A native of Montreal, Gill has a doctorate in economic geology from Carleton University. His work has taken him across Canada and abroad. Prior to establishing Aur in the early 1980s, he served as Denison Mines’ district geologist for eastern Canada.
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