Views of the Jerome Mine Model
View a comprehensive and interactive version of the Jerome Mine 3D model.
In order to view the comprehensive and interactive model, you will have to download and install the Leapfrog 3D Viewer. Once installed, you will be able to view the Jerome Mine 3D model. Instructions are on the following page.
Simplified Image of 3D Model of Jerome Gold Mine
Here is a simplified version of a model of the gold zones at the Jerome Mine. The model can be rotated using the slider.
The comprehensive and interactive version of this model can be seen here.
The Jerome Mine Model
Augen Gold has assembled and digitized data from its own and previous work performed at the Jerome Mine. These data have been organized by MPH Consulting Ltd to construct the model shown here, using Leapfrog modeling software.
Please note that this is a geological model intended to illustrate the distribution of the gold-mineralized zones at the Jerome Mine. No estimate of average grade or tonnage is implied by this model. It is an intermediate step along the path to determining a mineral resource. Other layers of information that have been input to the database, but not shown here, are rock types, alteration zones, underground channel samples and magnetic susceptibility data.
The model currently shown on Augen Gold's website displays the following layers of information:
- the shaft, underground drifts (levels) and mined-out stopes are shown in silver-grey. There are six levels in the mine, at depths of 61, 107, 152, 198, 244 and 335 metres.
- surface and underground drill holes, including bazooka holes (short, small diameter holes drilled each side of the drifts), also shown in silver-grey
- drill hole assay results composited to one metre lengths. These are represented by coloured spheres representing successively higher values from blue through green and orange to red.
- a series of shells or envelopes nested like Russian Dolls that represent increasingly higher grade volumes of rock. The higher-grade volumes are naturally smaller than, and nested inside, the larger, lower grade volumes of rock.
- surface topography and the Mine Grid
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Plan View of Jerome Gold Mine
Plan view of mineralized zones at the Jerome Gold Mine. Image shows mine workings in silver-grey, the outlines of the volumes of rock containing gold assays of more than 1 gram per tonne, topography and the mine grid. Separate images of cross sections of the mine are located on Grid Lines 2700 and 3250 E. Coloured dots represent gold assays used to calculates the outlines of mineralization, and which can be viewed in greater detail using the Leapfrog Viewer.
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Longitudinal Image of Jerome Gold Mine
View looking northeast (northwest to left, southeast to right) showing the Jerome Mine with modeled surfaces representing the extent of gold mineralization higher than 1 gram per tonne. Shaft, underground drift, mined-out stopes and drill holes shown in silver grey. The shaft is 1100 feet deep (335 metres).
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Oblique Cross Sectional Image of Jerome Gold Mine
View looking southeast (northeast to left, southwest to right) showing the Jerome Mine with modeled surfaces representing the extent of gold mineralization higher than 1 gram per tonne. Shaft, underground drift, mined-out stopes and drill holes shown in silver grey. The shaft is 1100 feet deep (335 metres).
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Cross Sectional Image of the Jerome Gold Mine, Line 3250
This slightly oblique image of the Jerome Gold Mine shows the modeled outlines of the Main Zone and South Zone east of the shaft straddling section line 3250 E. View looks toward the northwest. Note the small number of drill holes that have tested the deposit to depth. The gold coloured shell represents the limit of gold mineralization exceeding 1 gram per tonne; the smaller red shell represents material containing more than 2 grams per tonne gold.
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Cross Sectional Image of the Jerome Gold Mine, Line 2700
This slightly oblique image of the Jerome Gold Mine shows the modeled outlines of the Main Zone west of the shaft straddling section line 2700 E. View looks toward the northwest. Note the small number of drill holes that have tested the deposit to depth. The outlines of the mined-out stopes have been represented diagrammatically in silver-grey. The gold coloured shell represents the limit of gold mineralization exceeding 1 gram per tonne; the smaller red shell represents material containing more than 2 grams per tonne gold.
Description of Cross Sections
Two cross sections are shown: one east of the shaft, which displays the Main and South Zones on mine grid section 3250 E, and one west of the shaft located on mine grid section 2700 E. These sections show the rock types and alteration zones in addition to the drill holes and mineralized intersections. Gold values are shown as bar graphs along the traces of the drill holes.
Section 3250 E shows the Main Zone to the north and the smaller South Zone. Note the paucity of drill holes at depth. Augen Gold's drill hole AG08-10 intersected a well-developed alteration zone and dark blue-grey quartz at a depth of 620 m, but assay results were low. Because the Main Zone was intercepted at this depth and the density of drill information is low, it is believed that there is potential to identify additional mineralization at depth at the Jerome Mine.
Section 2700 E shows the mine workings west of the shaft, and assay results obtained largely from underground bazooka holes. The South Zone does not extend this far west. Again, exploration potential is indicated by the limited amount of drilling in this area.
