Welcome to the Integra Gold Rush Challenge, an incentive prize to point us towards the next big gold deposit on our Sigma-Lamaque property. We need a faster and more cost-effective method to analyze and interpret the data to identify additional gold targets. However, at over 6 terabytes, the sheer volume of data we now have on these mines would take Integra years to analyze on our own.
Somewhere within the 2.7-million-year-old geology of the Canadian Shield, there was a treasure waiting to be found. The Lamaque main plug had only been mined to a vertical depth of 1,100 meters, while its immediate neighbour the Sigma Mine was mined down to a depth of 1,830 meters, and there were indications that the Lamaque mine still offered significant untapped resources.
We believe the production closure of the Lamaque Mine in 1985 had nothing to do with dwindling deposits. Over 6 terabytes of data was discovered, spanning 75 years of mining data from the historic Sigma and Lamaque mines. While the initial aim of this acquisition was the milling facility at surface, the truly important part of the purchase turned out to be. The Lamaque mine remained untouched and relatively forgotten for nearly 30 years, until Integra purchased the original land, permits and infrastructure of the old Lamaque and Sigma mines out of bankruptcy in October, 2014. Opened in 1935, it remained in operation for 50 years, processing more than 24 million tons of ore and 4.5 million ounces of gold.īut in 1985, faced with labour unrest and a low international gold standard, the owners decided to cut their losses and closed production at their Lamaque Mine, leaving it to collect dust and fade into history as one of the longest operating and highest producing mines in the Abitibi Gold Belt. The surrounding belt has produced more than 135 million ounces of the mineral.Īdjacent to the town of Val-d'Or is the Lamaque Mine. Val-d’Or, located on the eastern tip of the prolific Abitibi Gold Belt, has been on the map since 1923 when gold was first discovered in the area. If you're entering - don't delay! Submissions are due by 11:59pm PT on Dec. We are seeking your help to hunt down the next big gold discovery on our property located in Val-d'Or, Canada - which literally translates to the "valley of gold". He added that the lack of weathering on the rock suggests that it has been on Earth for less than 200 years.Integra Gold ( is excited to host the Integra Gold Rush Challenge, one of the largest ever mining industry incentive prize competitions. They transport us back in time, providing clues to the age, formation and chemistry of our Solar System," Henry said. "Meteorites provide the cheapest form of space exploration. Henry used a super-hard diamond saw to slice the edge off, revealing a cross-section of little silver raindrops.
It is quite heavy as it is filled with very dense forms of iron and nickel. The rock which is now known as the Maryborough meteorite weighs 17 kilograms. That’s formed when they come through the atmosphere, they are melting on the outside, and the atmosphere sculpts them," Dermot told The Sydney Morning Herald. "It had this sculpted, dimpled look to it. When David decided to take it to the Melbourne Museum recently, he had no idea what he was going to discover.Įxperts at the Melbourne Museum told him that the strange rock was something that travelled from space - it was a meteorite.ĭermot Henry, a geologist at the museum, said that in his 37 years of working in the area, he had only come across two genuine meteorites. When he was unable to open it, he put it up on a shelf for the next six years.
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He recently discovered that it was a rare 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite.ĭavid Hole found the meteorite in 2015 at Maryborough Regional Park, the site of the famous Australian gold rush in the nineteenth century.ĭavid thought that the rock contained a gold nugget and he tried to crack it open. He took it home and kept it on a shelf for years. He recently discovered that the rock was a rare 4.6 billion-year-old meteoriteĪn Australian man found a strange rock while he was looking for gold.
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