Giant Mining With Geologist, Leo Hathaway

The Market Online speaks with Giant Mining Geologist, Leo Hathaway as Drill results at the Majuba Hill copper, silver and gold project near Reno, NV.

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00:00Hello and welcome back to The Watchlist. I'm Lindsay Melchick. Giant Mining, an exploration

00:10company currently exploring the Majuba Hill project located northeast of Reno, has recently

00:16announced they have assays pending from their 2025 drill program. So here to dissect some of

00:23that is Leo Hathaway, geologist at Giant Mining. Hello Leo, it's great to meet you.

00:28Hi, great to meet you.

00:31So let's jump right into your press release. The news mentions a strong presence of native

00:36copper cuprite and chalcopyrite. So can you explain the significance of these minerals

00:42and really what they indicate about the underlying copper system?

00:48Yeah, so these are minerals that are enriched in the upper levels of a porphyry copper system.

00:56So they're really high grade and what they tell us is that below this high grade cap there's

01:07a lot more depth to the copper mineralization below that. So it's a really good indication

01:15and I guess the other thing to mention would be that the metallurgy of these minerals is

01:21excellent. So in terms of getting the copper out of those minerals, then it's cheap and easy to do.

01:28Well, that's intriguing news right out of the gate there. So how does the Majuba Hills geology

01:33compare with other major porphyry copper systems that you've worked on globally? I mean, really,

01:38like what stands out the most for you? Well, so the reason I got involved with this is because

01:44there's a number of things about Majuba Hill that is atypical and kind of break the rules. It's not

01:53where most copper porphyry deposits in Nevada are. So it's sitting in a bit of an odd place.

02:02The timing, you know, we have ways to date the mineralization in porphyry coppers.

02:10It's not quite what it should be. There's a few different dates, which means that there's been an

02:18extremely long, um, uh, spanning, um, sequence of, of, of copper mineralization that's taken place.

02:29And, you know, I'm talking geological terms, so I'm talking hundreds of millions of years.

02:33And what that tells you is that there's a really deep, um, structure that is controlling,

02:40bringing up the copper mineralization from basically the earth's mantle. Um, and so all those things just,

02:48just make it extremely intriguing to me. And I just, I just feel this, you know, there's something

02:53about this that is unusual and it's the unusual ones and the ones that break the rules that are

02:59the ones that, that gives you really good discovery. So that's why I'm intrigued by it.

03:04Well, thank you so much for these insights and there's a lot going on for you. We will definitely

03:09be keeping our ears peeled for more to come. So thank you for joining us. Come back soon.

03:13I would be happy to.

03:14Again, that was Leo Hathaway, geologist of Giant Mining. Now to learn more about them,

03:20their WIPES website is giantminingcorp.com. I'm Lindsay Melchick with Stockhouse Publishing.

03:26We'll see you next time.