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St. Elie

Prospect in Department of Guiana [French Guiana], France with commodity Gold
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Mineral rights holdings
  9. Ownership information
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10158326
MAS/MILS ID 3170100001
Record type Site
Current site name St. Elie

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Town
Geographic coordinates: -53.24919, 4.83463 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 10000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Department of Guiana [French Guiana](province)

France(country)

Europe(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country State
France Department of Guiana [French Guiana]

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Nearby scientific data

Town (1) -53.24919, 4.83463
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Comments on exploration

  • A 6,000 M DIAMOND DRILLING PROGRAM HAS BEGUN WITH ASARCO GUYANE FRANCAISE SARL. THE PROGRAM WILL DELINEATE THE DEVIS AND PACTOLE GRANITIC INTRUSIVES WHICH HAVE SURFACE DIMENSION OF APPROX. 600 M BY 400 M AND 800 M BY 400 M, RESP., SEPARATED BY 400-500 M OF VOLCANICS. THE INTRUSIVES CONTAIN A GOLD STOCKWORK OF QUARTZ VEINING AND PYRITE. DEVIS AND PACTOLE WERE STUDIED BY SURFACE WORK OVER THE PAST YEAR WITH SOME 340 CHANNEL AND PANEL SEAMPLES YIELDING AN AVE GRADE OF 3G/T. IN ADDITION TO THE DEVIS AND PACTOLE INTRUSIVES, THERE ARE SEVEN OTHER MAJOR TARGETS, ALL OW WHICH HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED BY A COMBINATION OF REMOTE SENSING AND GROUND FOLLOW-UP. THE MOST ADVANCED OF THESE, MICHEL, HOSTS SHEAR-RELATED QUARTZ VEINS, YIELDING AN AVE GRADE OF 6.3G/T GOLD FROM 37 CHANNEL SAMPLES.

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Unknown

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner Guyanor Ressources Sa (70% Owned By Golden Star Res.)
    Interest 50
    Year 1995
  • Type Unknown
    Owner Asarco (American Smelting And Refining Co.)
    Interest 50
    Year 1995

Comments on the ownership information

  • IN 1994, SOCIETE DES MINES DE SAINT ELIE SARL (SMSE) ACQUIRED, SUBJECT TO GOVT APPROVAL, A 100% INTERST IN THE ST. ELIE CONCESSION. BOTH ASARCO AND GUYANOR OWN A 50% INTEREST IN SMSE. ASARCO MUST COMPLETE A FEASIBILITY STUDY AND SPEND NOT LESS THAN US$10 MILLION BY SEP. 1, 2000 IN ORDER TO RETAIN ITS INTEREST. IN THE EVENT THAT THE AGGREGATE EXPENDITURES OF ASARCO TO COMPLETE A FEASIBILITY STUDY ARE LESS THAN US$10 MILLION, THE REMAINING BALANCE IS TO BE EXPENDED ON THE PROPERTY PRIOR TO GUYANOR HAVING TO CONTRIBUTE ITS PROPORTIONATE SHARE OF EXPENSES. GUYANOR IS A FRENCH, PUBLIC, EXPLORATOIN COMPANY IN WHICH GOLDEN STAR RESOURCES HAS APPROX. A 70% INTEREST.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MINING JOURNAL, NOV 10, 1995, P 349.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 07-JUN-96 Clarke, Donald U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

  • Asarco (American Smelting And Refining Co.) — acquired by Asarco LLC, subsidiary of Grupo México (2009)
    American Smelting and Refining Co. Filed Chapter 11 in 2005; acquired out of bankruptcy by Grupo México in 2009.

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.

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