Canadian Inspects Lode

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31676, 11 May 1968, Page 19

Canadian Inspects Lode

(X.X. Press Association; NELSON, May 9. The copper lode on Mount Baldie, southeast of Murchison, was sufficiently encouraging to warrant further investigation, a Canadian geologist said in Murchison after visiting the remote site by helicopter. He declined to be identified, but said that he was a representative of a Canadian mln- ; ing company.

He said his company held 1 mineral prospecting warrants ( over several thousand acres j in the Mount Baldie area. He was guided to the site < by two Murchison brothers, i i

Mr D. Oxnam and Mr W. i Oxnam, who also hold pros- i petting warrants for the area, i “It will require a tremen- < dous amount of work to prove i the deposits,” the geologist said. i The next step would be to i use a small rock drill and 1 explosive. Then, if the results 1 justified it, a larger diamond i drill would be used for deeper i investigation. i The geologist said he had I been able to follow the de- < posit for several hundred feet I on the surface and had brought back casual samples 1 for analysis. 1 “This is a very raw pros- < pect, and it is far too prema- < ture to speculate on Its possible commercial worth,” he i said. “I could take you to i five deposits as promising as 1 this in Canada.” ! He said that ouch deposits i did not often justify a large i mine. They tended to be 1 rather small, and to have “erratic” ore. 1 He was unable to confirm 1 at this stage that there was i gold in the ore, although there I could be some. 1