The south contact is open.

EL 54566. Twenty-one claims on the lake Lindsay said would matter, in good standing. Mapped. Counted. Shot. Ready for the laboratory and a partner who wants the heavy end.

Walk the road with us 2023 assessment

Location of Little Snare Lake south of Debert Lake in the Cobequid Highlands. — Figure from the 2023 assessment. Little Snare Lake, south of the Debert discovery, Colchester County.

21 claimsTracts 58, 59, 62 and 63. Issued 1 December 2021. Elk Exploration.

The ideaByers Brook volcanics on the Hart Lake–Byers Lake granite. The contact is the target.

The crewDaniel Allen, Ron Mills, Ken Mallett. Lindsay ran the counter and the XRF.

Why this side of the lake

Lindsay staked the Debert anomaly in 2005. MacHattie later put the science under it, and argued the system ran south. Magnum took the discovery about 2013 and worked the north side: trenches, channels, short vein hits, rare earths already freed from zircon. Elk kept the thesis. When the south ground came open, Elk took Little Snare Lake.

The 2022 and 2023 seasons turned the logging roads into a survey. Scintillometer first, because thorium has traveled with the rare earths in this district. Then an InnovX Delta on bedrock in place. The grid is the invitation. The shots that light up together are the places a partner spends the next dollar.

A6, A8, B13, B14, B17, D3. Zirconium 3,417 ppm at D3. Yttrium 679 ppm east-northeast of the lake. K/Rb under 75 east-southeast, a melt that kept evolving. Thorium up on the same stations. Epidote mapped at the lake, the alteration phase between the intermediate rocks and the rhyolite. Early assays confirmed the metals are in the rock. The XRF is how the next samples get chosen.

Geology map of the Little Snare Lake claims from the 2023 assessment. — Property geology, 2023 assessment. Granite, Byers Brook, and the ground between Debert Lake and Little Snare.

Lidar hillshade of the Little Snare Lake claim block. — Lidar used to pick the roads and the contacts. 2023 assessment.

Magmatic evolution model for the Little Snare Lake rocks. — How the melt evolved, from the 2023 report. The late felsic end is the rare-earth end.

The indicators cluster

Same stations, different elements. That is the optimistic fact in the file. Not one lucky shot. A neighbourhood.

K/Rb ratio plot from the 2023 XRF survey. — K/Rb. Low ratios east-southeast of the lake mark the more evolved melt.

Zirconium plot from the 2023 XRF survey. — Zirconium. The 3,417 ppm shot at D3 sits with the other anomalies.

Follow-ups already dialled in: east-northeast to east-southeast of the lake, D3 by the stream on the corduroy road, A2 through A8, and the east–west road with B13, B14 and B17. Rory's Pond also has an anomaly. Fused ICP-MS next. Chondrite plots a partner can read. The licence is in good standing. The roads are in with many access points.

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