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2026-08-26

The Hart River area (maps 116 A/10 and 11) of the southeastern Ogilvie Mountains is underlain by two varied and widespread successions which offer the most potential for discovery of sediment-hosted base metal deposits in the northern Canadian Cordillera. A 'shelf sequence', north of the Dawson fault, includes:: Middle Proterozoic Wernecke Supergroup; Middle and (?) Late Proterozoic Fifteenmile group; the Late Proterozoic Windermere Supergroup; Ordovician and Silurian carbonate; Ordovician to Devonian (?) Road River Group; Devonian Ogilvie Formation; and Devono-Mississippian Earn Group. The 'offshelf sequence' includes:: Late Proterozoic Hyland Group; Cambrian volcanic rocks; Lower Cambrian Vampire Formation equivalent; Cambrian Gull Lake Formation equivalent; Cambro-Ordovicain Rabbitkettle Formation equivalent; Ordovician and younger(?) Road River Group; Mississippian Keno Hill quartzite; and Devonian(?) to Jurassic(?) Lower Schist. The most promising exploration targets are:: 1) massive sulphide deposits associated with the Hart River volcanic rocks in the Gillespie Lake Group (upper part of the Wernecke Supergroup); 2) sedimentary copper deposits in the Fifteenmile Group; 3)…

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