Gold deposits point to potential gold camp.

• Author: ROSS, IAN

Prospectors have been searching in the wrong places, geologist explains

A Kirkland Lake provincial geologist believes there is a yet-to-be a discovered gold camp in the Lake Abitibi area that is strikingly similar to deposits found in Timmins and Kirkland Lake.

Gerhard Meyer, the regional resident geologist with the Ontario Geological Survey, made his case to the mining and prospecting community at the Northeastern Ontario Mineral Symposium in Sudbury on April 17.

He suspects a 300-kilometre long sedimentary belt running west to east across the region into Quebec may be the next new source of gold. In particular, he is concentrating his focus of study on a fault known as the Lake Abitibi deformation zone.

Gold deposits have been known to be in the area for more than 20 years, but Meyer says prospectors have been searching in the wrong places and he believes further exploration is warranted in a previously untapped section north and northeast of the lake.

"There is good potential here all the way to Quebec," says Meyer who has written extensively on the subject and created a table of known gold deposits close to deformation zones across northeastern Ontario which may apply to the Lake Abitibi area. He theorizes there could be a major gold find just north of the Lake Abitibizone, based on some promising indicators and the overall geological case history of the region.

Meyer says the distribution of gold deposits is comparable to other known gold-producing centres such as Timmins and Kirkland Lake. In both areas, more than a million ounces of gold per ton...