Seabrex shifts focus away from Nova Scotia’s Meguma

For several years, Seabright Explorations (TSE) has been trying to make a gold mine out of its Moose River property in Nova Scotia’s Meguma group sediments. But the company recently announced plans to steer away from the elusive Meguma gold and shift emphasis to gold and base metal exploration in other geological environments. Seabright has already started exploration on its wholly owned Nuttby Mountain and Silica Lake properties in the Cobequid Highlands of Nova Scotia and has completed stripping and channel sampling at the Indian Brook gold property on Cape Breton Island.

Work is also continuing at the Rocky Brook property in the Cape Breton Highlands. There, a porphyritic intrusion is surrounded by an alteration aureole containing a series of gold-bearing veins. Seabright’s goal is to develop a large-tonnage bulk-mining operation on the property.

In New Brunswick, the company has staked 18 claims on the eastern boundary of the Brunswick Number Six property, a previous lead- zinc producer. The claims are contiguous with the Knight’s Brook block acquired by Seabrex last spring.

The Meguma group is notorious for the discontinuity of its gold mineralization. Another deterrent to development is the high percentage of gold trapped within sulphides, making recovery difficult.