The Yellowknife greenstone belt hosts a number of shear hosted gold deposits. The Con and Giant Mines are situated within 2.5 to 2.7 billion year old volcanic and sedimentary rocks of the Yellowknife greenstone belt.
Gold primarily occurs in quartz-bearing shear zones that crosscut the original rocks.
The shear zones consist of stretched and aligned minerals, such as micaeous chlorite and sericite, that represent the change in the original rock as hot fluids were introduced with quartz and gold along the structure. Click here for our Forward Looking Statements.