Nanortalik Exploration License –
southernmost Greenland
| Our exploration team has
located several gold
occurrences in the district, in
different geological settings,
and believes there is a
potential for commercial gold
deposits in the license area. |
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The Nanortalik Exploration License, which is held over an area of 265 square kilometers in
southernmost Greenland, is a joint-enture project between Crew Nalunaq Denmark ApS
(80%) and NunaMinerals (20%). The property is operated by the Corporation as an earlystage
exploration project.
The Nanortalik exploration area is the remaining portion of the original Nalunaq concession
area, after the Nalunaq Mining License itself has been carved out from the initial 1,081 km2
concession. The Corporation has located several gold occurrences in the district, in different
geological settings, and believes there is a potential for commercial gold deposits in the
license area.
Exploration in the Nanortalik area
The regional exploration campaigns have included surface prospecting and sediment/scree
sampling to examine a series of significant NNE-SSW trending belts of anomalous samples.
Twenty-three rock samples returned more than 1 g/t and seven of these more than 3 g/t. The
richest rock samples contained 56 and 33 g/t respectively and were collected at the southern
extension of the anomalous belt north of Nanisiaq. The results confirm the existence of at least
two clusters of gold mineralization in the Nanisiaq peninsula. The high amount of glacial
debris, however, makes interpretation complicated.
Continued low-cost prospecting and sampling are expected to lead to the recognition of
currently unrecognized types of mineralization that have caused the extensive gold signatures
in this area.
The exploration so far has been unable to identify mineralization with commercial potential,
but one of the structures identified termed “Nanisiaq”, hosts a two kilometer mineralized
structure where systematic sampling has revealed 4 g/t of gold on average, over 1 m. The
volume of this occurrence is small but remains an important symptom of the potential of this
area.
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