Orogenic gold potential in Greenland. Reporting the mineral resource assessment workshop, 19- 21 November 2014

Within the framework of the Global Mineral Resource Assessment Project. Greenlandic orogenic gold resources were estimated to a depth of 1 km. Twenty-eight permissive tracts, covering an area of 254,324 km², were assessed using what was identified as an appropriate grade/tonnage model, the recently compiled grade-tonnage model from the Finnish Geological Survey (GTK).

The statistical mean estimate number of unknown orogenic gold deposits, in all tracts, is of 66, which are estimated to contain a total of 1,150 metric tons of Au. Among these, 28 undiscovered gold deposits, accounting for an estimated 490 metric tons of Au, are estimated to exist in only six tracts, covering only 11,988 km². These tracts, with the highest unknown deposit density, correspond to the Tartoq Gold Province (5 unknown deposits and 0.0057 unknown deposits per km²), the Paamiut Gold Province (3 unknown deposits and 0.0036 unknown deposits per km2), the contact of the Central and Southern domains of the Ketilidian Orogen in Western Greenland (6 unknown deposits, and 0.0035 unknown deposits per km2), the contact of the Central and Southern domains of the Ketilidian Orogen in Eastern Greenland (2 unknown deposits, and 0.0023 unknown deposits per km2), the Godthåbsfjord Gold Province (8 unknown deposits, and 0.0016 unknown deposits per km2), and the Ataa Gold Province (4 unknown deposits, 0.0016 unknown deposits per km²). Another 18 unknown orogenic gold deposits, estimated to contain a total of 319 metric tons of Au, are estimated to be present in the four large Caledonian Orogen tracts in East Greenland, extending over an area of 107,919 km².

While the assessment process is formalised into models and methodology in order to reduce bias, and make these results comparable with those obtained elsewhere, the estimated total should be used with caution and should be regarded as a statistical estimate that reflects the present level of knowledge and investigations that have been undertaken in the assessed tracts. New information, new discoveries, new investigations etc. within a tract should thus, whenever possible, be taken into account while evaluating an area, as this could either decrease or increase its estimated potential.