BONAPARTE PICTURES & VIDEO
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Bonaparte June 11, 2024 Photos - 1st Section
Bonaparte June 12, 2024 Photos - 2nd Section
Bonaparte June 13, 2024, Photos - 3rd Section
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“Quartz diorite porphyry (“dark matrix porphyry’’ of Peatfield, 1986) is pervasively biotite-altered, well foliated and lineated, and hosts disseminated chalcopyrite (Fig. 4). Typically, the diorite is coarse grained and contains white plagioclase (35%), altered hornblende (5%), distinctive, sparse blue quartz eyes in a fine-grained matrix of prismatic hornblende (20%), and intra-crystalline plagioclase-feldspar ± quartz containing biotite, apatite, titanite, magnetite and pyrite. The quartz diorite yielded a population of euhedral stubby zircons similar in size and appearance to those from 12JL”.
https://cmscontent.nrs.gov.bc.ca/geoscience/PublicationCatalogue/Paper/BCGS_P2014-01.pdf
QUARTZ DIORITE PORPHYRY
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The pictures below are of the face of the Bonaparte Big Rock Boulder. In June, 2024 I was able to sample a corner of this mineralization which confirmed the presence of copper & gold through XRF analysis (result seen immediately below).
Below are several pictures of a porphyritic float sample taken from the property with the coordinates shown in the 1st picture. The sample was broken into a few pieces and washed. Ironically, it appears to be diorite porphyry as seen in Figure 4 sample 12JLO50-38. or monzodoirite porphyry as per sample Sample 12JLO50-31 from the same document.
The 2nd picture (to the right) is from a section of the same rock and was taken with a iPhone 10 through the lens of a Seiwa jeweler’s - geologist’s microscope (unknown magnification).
Chalcopyrite, phenocrysts of plagoiclase feldspar, quartz, biotite, sericite along with various other minerals, metals and crystals may also be seen.
