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Welcome. IAMGOLD ROSEBEL GOLDMINES SURINAME REGIONAL EXPLORATION. STRUCTURE OF PRESENTATION. Introduction Geology and property geology Weathering profile Goldmobilization and mushroom effect Exploration. INTRODUCTION. Regional Exploration Find new targets for the mine

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  1. Welcome IAMGOLD ROSEBEL GOLDMINES SURINAME REGIONAL EXPLORATION

  2. STRUCTURE OF PRESENTATION • Introduction • Geology and property geology • Weathering profile • Goldmobilization and mushroom effect • Exploration

  3. INTRODUCTION • Regional Exploration • Find new targets for the mine • Active in and out of the mine-site • Working areas • Mine-site; J-zone, Spin-zone, Blauwe Tent etc • Koemboekreek en Kraboedoin • Sarakreek

  4. PROPERTY GEOLOGY

  5. GEOLOGY • The Rosebel concession lies within the Lower Proterozoic Guiana Shield, which stretches from the Amazon River in Brazil to the Orinoco River in Venezuela. • The Suriname portion of the shield consists of distinct belts of low-grade metamorphic rocks, separated by large areas underlain by granites and gneisses.

  6. LOWER PROTEROZOIC GEOLOGICAL UNITS OF SURINAME

  7. MAROWIJNE GROUP • Paramaka Formation (Basic to intermediate volcanic) • Armina Formation (deepmarine sediments and volcanics) • Rosebel Formation (Shallow marine-continental sediments)

  8. WEATHERING • Chemical weathering • Mechanical weathering

  9. TYPICAL WEATHERING PROFILE(TROPICS)

  10. TRANSITIONAL ZONE • Grading from slightly weathered rock through to saprolite • Primary minerals are pseudomorphically replaced by weathering products (such as kaolinite)

  11. SAPROLITE • Most weatherable primary minerals have been altered to secondary minerals such as kaolinite, goethite or amorphous iron oxyhydroxides. • Weathering is isovolumetric • The original rock fabric is preserved

  12. MOTTLED ZONE • Hydrated, clay-rich horizon • Contains vertical stripes and mottles of hydrated iron oxides • Water percolation creates a series of voids and channels, which can become filled with secondary kaolinite. • All original rock fabric is destroyed.

  13. MASSIVE CLAYZONE • Featureless • Brick red clay • Containing less than 10 percent iron oxide concretions and pisolites

  14. PISOLITIC CLAYZONE • Featureless • Brick red clay • Containing 10 to 95 percent iron oxide concretions and pisolites • Continued pisolite growth and cementation will eventually lead to development of duricrust

  15. GOLD MOBILIZATION • A leaching process takes place • Light material (such as clays) leach • Heavy material (such as gold) gets concentrated on the top layers • Which will eventually result in…

  16. MUSHROOM EFFECT

  17. EXPLORATION • To show indications, cheap and fast resulting methods are used • To define the ore-body more effective and structured methods are used

  18. EXPLORATION METHODS • Panning • Mapping of porknocking pits • BLEG sampling • Augering • Fieldmapping • Trenching • Diamond drilling

  19. PANNING

  20. MAPPING OF PORKNOCKING-PITS • Porknocking-pits indicate areas containing/contained gold • Using a GPS the boundaries can be mapped • While mapping the area, the source of gold can be determined (primary gold or alluvial gold)

  21. BLEG SAMPLING • BLEG = Bulk Leach Extractable Gold • After panning the concentrate of heavy minerals is sent to the lab • Gold is dissolved by cyanide and concentrated by extraction into an organic solvent.

  22. AUGERING • An auger is a device for moving material by means of a rotating helical flighting. • A drill bit uses this mechanism to remove shavings from a hole being drilled.

  23. AUGER-SAMPLING • At first • A large grid is augered with 400 meter spacing • At each station (with 25 meter spacing) samples are taken from the first 2 meters • When anomaly results are received • Around this anomaly a smaller grid is sampled • Sampling takes place each meter until 5 meter (deepauger)

  24. AUGER-PROCEDURE Samples are taken from each meter Therefore each each meter is: Logged (using the augerlogsheet) Sampled ID-ed

  25. AUGER-LOGSHEET

  26. SAMPLING • Each meter • At the end of meter • Homogenized • Quartered • 250 grams sample taken to sent for lab • And a small amount in a chiptray for reference and further analysis

  27. TRENCHING • A trench is a type of excavation in the ground • After studying assay results orientation and location of trench is determined

  28. WHY TRENCHING? • Create outcrops • Study controls of gold-mineralization and gold-mobilization • Determine if future drilling is needed • Study orientations of bedding and quartzveins • Determine how and at which orientation the possible drilling has to be done

  29. DIAMOND DRILLING • Diamond drilling is very expensive • Advantage is that you will get in situ material in fresh rock • After analyzing auger data and field-mapping data a drill spot is determined in the field

  30. The samples from augering, diamond drilling etc… are afterwards sent to the lab for analyzing • RGM Lab (on site) • The Assay Lab (Paramaribo) • Omai lab (Guyana)

  31. DOES ANYONE HAVE QUESTIONS?!

  32. THANK YOU… FOR YOUR ATTENTION

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