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| Enja Property, Northwest Québec | ||||||
Enja (69 claims covering 3,830 hectares) is located in high-potential terrain for both precious and base metals. It is situated in Enjalran and Massicotte Townships, northwest Quebec, between the Detour Lake and Casa Berardi gold camps, and 35 kilometres west of the Selbaie Mine, a major past producer of copper, zinc, gold and silver. In the Enja property area, drilling was performed between 1972 and 1997 by a number of companies, including Penarroya, Serem, and Soquem/Billiton, identifying widespread occurrences of base metal sulphide and gold mineralization.
The Company’s property extends from the Ontario border eastward beyond the Turgeon River, well into a pronounced circular structure resembling the metals-rich Selbaie Caldera. Recent work by Stratabound has consisted of airborne geophysics and MMI (mobile metal ion) geochemistry, which was employed to follow up a few of the geophysical targets. The results indicate that the area surveyed to date is a base metal target with copper as the main commodity. This is based on a bi-lobate copper anomaly, with minimum lengths of 175 metres on each of the two (north and south) limbs. The morphology of this anomaly, i.e. the bi-lobate nature of the MMI response, is believed to be controlled by an eastward verging fold that is also very well defined by numerous other elements including cadmium, cobalt and iron, which show both limbs and the fold nose. In 2005 a detailed (80 metre line spacing) airborne geophysical survey outlined intense magnetic highs on the property, and indicated that it comprises three separate fault blocks (Map 13, Map 13A). Separately, a lithostructural interpretation based on remote sensing satellite imagery, identified both Detour Lake-type gold and Selbaie-type base-metal targets on Enja. It is known from the historic drilling records that the western and eastern fault blocks contain extensive widths of sulphide and oxide iron formations with anomalously high gold content. Drill holes along and adjacent to a magnetic high in the eastern block also intersected zinc/silver mineralization with associated copper and gold, as well as structurally-hosted gold mineralization. Last Updated : April 25, 2008 For project news releases, maps and photos, click on green menu (top right). |
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