Oremine Kısacık Property is just at the eastern part of the gold deposit found by MTA between 2002 - 2006. The main part of the Kısacık Property is located between the villages of Kısacık and Baharlar, in Çanakkale Province on the Biga Peninsula of Northwestern Turkey. It is accessible by a 14 kilometer asphalt road from the village of Ayvacik which is located 66 km south of the regional capital of Çanakkale.
Geology
The basement rock Kazdagı metamorphic group and the Karakaya zone are outcropped at the northeast of the property. The ultramafic and mafic rocks of the Çetmi Ophiolites are seen at the east and the Neogene andesitic, dacitic and pyroclastic rocks at the south and southeast of the property. The mineralised Miocene ignimbrites and rhyolitic dykes outcropped at the west are covered by Pliocene loose sedimantary overburden towards to the east within the property.
Ore mineralization
The Oremine Kısacık Property is just next to the Kısacık ore deposit which has 1.0 Moz possible-probable reserve of gold. The gold mineralisation is within the ignimbrite and closely related to the rhyolitic dykes which extend northeast-southwest direction. Extension of the dykes, mineralisation and alteration, and the results of the drills, made just at the boundary by MTA, all indicate the gold mineralisation continues through the Oremine Property under the Pliocene cover. The extent of the continuation of the mineralisation will be tested by future geophysical studies and drilling.
Other mineralisation zones have been revealed during short prospections aroun Baharlar and Dereoba villages. At the north of Baharlar the schists are heavily silisified along a N-S and NW-SE direction in an area of 30-50m x 200-300m. Around Dereoba the silicification is related to the dacitic volcanic rocks. Silisifications are widespread as small banding and dark color which are typical textures for gold mineralisation. Small trenches seen at the top of hill are evaluated as old mining remains.
Some Au anomalies have been obtained in tlimited numbers of rock samples. Detailed geochemical studies will be applied in the silisification zones around Baharlar and Dereoba villages.
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