Photograph of drill core with 1% TREO and 19% Fe2O3 at 94m in drill hole HK22-016, located on the east-west fault that cross-cuts the central core of the entire complex at Hecla-Kilmer. This drill hole ran down the edge of the MVI anomaly shown in Figure 1 and will be followed up by testing the heart of the MVI anomaly. The REE mineralization is within an alkaline host rock that completely replaced by a sodic alteration characterized by pristine crystals of hydrothermal actinolite and magnetite cementing relic nepheline and orthoclase crystals, themselves altered to sodalite.
Photograph of drill core with 1% TREO and 19% Fe2O3 at 94m in drill hole HK22-016, located on the east-west fault that cross-cuts the central core of the entire complex at Hecla-Kilmer. This drill hole ran down the edge of the MVI anomaly shown in Figure 1 and will be followed up by testing the heart of the MVI anomaly. The REE mineralization is within an alkaline host rock that completely replaced by a sodic alteration characterized by pristine crystals of hydrothermal actinolite and magnetite cementing relic nepheline and orthoclase crystals, themselves altered to sodalite.