Little Deer
Green Bay Copper – Gold Project
Overview
The Little Deer complex is located ~40km south of the Ming Mine and is a high-grade copper-rich VMS deposit. Two historical operations, the Little Deer and Whalesback mines, were in operation between 1960 and 1972.
The Little Deer deposit currently hosts a mineral resource prepared in accordance with the JORC Code (2012 Edition) and NI 43-101 of 2.9Mt of measured and indicated resources at 2.3% for 65Kt CuEq and 6.2Mt of inferred resources at 1.8% for 114Kt CuEq.

Little Deer Geology and Geological Interpretation
The Little Deer deposits consist of two components, namely the Little Deer and Whalesback mines. These were historically joined by an underground decline and mined in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Both Little Deer and Whalesback are geologically classified as copper-rich ophiolite-hosted Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide (VMS) deposits formed at or near the sea floor.  The host rocks are typically mafic volcanics, intrusions and volcaniclastic sediments. Areas proximal to the deposit have typically undergone intense chloritic alteration.
The deposits were subject to deformation as the oceanic floor was accreted onto the ancestral North American continent ~480 million years ago.
The Little Deer deposit contains mainly stringer and disseminated sulphide mineralisation with lesser amounts of massive sulphides. The predominant sulphide species present are pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, pyrite and sphalerite. The Whalesback Deposit contains mainly veins and pods of disseminated sulphide mineralisation that form 0.3m to 15 m lenses.
