The Dalmas gold property is a 50/50 JV project with SOQUEM, located 25 km south of the Trans-Taiga Road, a nearly 600-km-long gravel highway running east-west through the James Bay region. The property covers a sheared greenstone belt characterized by a strong As-Bi-Cu footprint in lake-bottom sediments. The target deposit type is shear zone-hosted gold deposits.
Azimut acquired the Dalmas Property after identifying a strong multi-element (As-Bi-Cu) footprint in lake-bottom sediments during its technology-driven (AZTechMine™) mineral potential assessment of the James Bay region.
Azimut’s latest fieldwork on the property was prospecting and till sampling surveys in 2019. The program focused on a 3-km trend of anomalous gold, arsenic and copper in grab samples identified the year before during a multi-project field assessment program (prospecting and a lake-bottom sediment survey on Dalmas)
The best results were:
The Dalmas property covers a sheared greenstone belt in the La Grande Subprovince, less than 10 km from the contact with the Ashuanipi Subprovince. Both subprovinces belong to the Archean Superior Province.
Most of the property is underlain by the Dalmas Formation, composed of paragneiss, biotite wacke, amphibolites derived from intermediate to mafic volcanics, oxide facies banded iron formation, and ultramafic metavolcanics. The Dalmas Formation is older than the Dutreuil Suite, which is present near the northern edge of the property and includes meta-peridotites and meta-pyroxenites with tremolite and serpentine. The intermediate to felsic rocks of the Polaris Batholith surround these units. The entire sequence is intruded by a north-south Paleoproterozoic mafic dyke less than 10 m thick.
The property is located within a highly magnetic E-W domain, likely corresponding to the ultramafic rocks of the Dutreuil Suite, crossed by regional N-S magnetic axes representing Proterozoic dykes.