Romer & Labrador Trough Project
Focus Metals’ longer-term development project in the Ungava-Labrador Trough region of Northern Quebec holds potential economic prospects for the discovery of gold, platinum, palladium, copper, zinc and nickel.
Focus Metals owns 100% of these 13 properties covering some 668 square kilometres running north-south from our Lemming property in southwestern Ungava Bay to Fox, some 75 kilometers east of Schefferville, Quebec.
Our Romer property, however, showed potential interest from 2009 geologic surface samplings and we decided in late 2010 to formally assay those findings.
Positive assay results for gold, silver and copper from earlier work conducted in 2009 confirmed historical showings and identified several new mineralized zones on the Romer Property.
Significant gold values included 8.54 g/t Au on the Lac Plissé Showing and 2.03 g/t Au from a pyritic boulder which represents a new discovery and a new type of gold mineralization on the property.
Field results highlighted also a new area of interest for platinum and palladium exploration located in the south central part of the property where a slightly mineralized gabbro returned 0.67 g/t Pt and 0.58 g/t Pd, 1.30 g/t Pd and 1.12 g/t Pd.
In the eastern part of the property, new base metals mineralization was discovered and returned 2.38% Cu and 0.93% Cu.
The work has enabled us to confirm the property’s potential for base and precious metal mineralization in identifying: Cu-Ni-Pt-Pd magmatic sulphides, Cu-Zn-Co-AgAu Beshi type massive sulphides and lode gold vein-type deposits favourable environments.
These results justify follow-up exploration works to better define the extent of the mineralisation observed. The next phase of recommended work planned is an airborne geophysical (magnetic and electromagnetic) survey.