This video explains the 2022 planned drill program at Eagle Plains Resources Vulcan property to test for Sullivan-style mineralization. The 8355ha Vulcan Project is located 30km northwest of the world-class Sullivan Mine that produced 160 million tonnes grading 12% Lead/Zinc and 67 g/t Silver, a behemoth! The Sullivan was a sedimentary exhalative (SEDEX) type of deposit, meaning it formed due to mineral rich brines being exhaled from a vent complex into a sea-bottom environment approx. 1.34 billion years ago. Because of this, the rocks of the stratigraphy (time period) that the Sullivan deposit occurred in are a fertile environment to explore for other venting complexes which may have been responsible for similar types of deposits. This sea basin that the Sullivan occurred in is known as the Aldridge and is made up of three distinct layers, lower, middle and upper. The Sullivan deposit occurred at what is know as the lower-middle contact (LMC). The Vulcan property contains the LMC stratigraphy over much of it as well as multiple stratigraphically controlled lead/zinc showings at the LMC time period. It also contains other geological features known to be associated with the Sullivan deposit. Recent drilling intersected alteration in the rocks at the LMC stratigraphy consistent with that as observed in the Sullivan venting complex.
