The Gayna River property is located near the headwaters of the Gayna River on the eastern slope of the MacKenzie Mountains, 170 km west of Norman Wells, NWT. The 49 unit (2500 acre) property contains a number of zinc deposits outlined by Rio Tinto Canadian Exploration during the mid-1970s. Mineralization in the area consists of carbonate-hosted silver-lead-zinc similar to that mined at Pine Point from 1970 to 1990. Rio Tinto completed some 27,000m of diamond drilling on the property, and suggested reserves of over 50,000,000 tons grading 4.7% zinc from numerous individual orebodies, making it one of Canada's largest undeveloped zinc deposits. The best drill intersection reported by Rio Tinto included a 6.0m interval which graded 20% combined lead-zinc. When Rio Tinto last worked the property in 1978, company geologists suggested that further exploration would result in additional discoveries hosted by favourable stratigraphy mapped within the property area. Eagle Plains has acquired all pertinent Rio Tinto data and has begun to compile a GIS database on the Gayna river area.

 Gayna - Project Details [PDF]