While this NR from Jan. 08 didn't excite the market, the fact that it is komatiitic in nature implies just how large the system could be. That, and coupled with the info from earlier regarding the failed arm of the rift near Lake Nipigon would give us a thinned lithosphere, active area volcanism, and all the ingredients to lay down some impressive mineralization. We just have to determine how to factor in the quartz vein system at Hercules to the west, possibly formed when the formation of a shallow sea very nearly encroached on the failed rift?
Seems to me this is a very unique geological event that has no other historical references, which would explain why it has gone undiscovered for as long as it did.
Excerpt from Jan/08 NR:
The significant width and grade of mineralization at the Sleeping Giant, combined with large geophysical anomalies,suggest it is part of a much larger base metal system.
The Sleeping Giant zone extends for at least 200 metres along strike and is open in all directions. The mineralized zone is associated with series of geophysical anomalies that extend for a strike length of at least three kilometres, indicating the system is much more extensive. Mineralization occurs in a gabbro/gabbroic komatiite body that hosts disseminated, semi-massive to massive sulphides consisting of pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, and possibly chromite.