Mining Stock Daily Unlocking Crippleback: Pirate Gold Sees Analogs with Valentine Deposit
Mar 26, 2026
Denis Laviolette, Executive Chairman and CEO of Pirate Gold and seasoned geologist behind the Queensway discovery, outlines work at Moosehead and Crippleback. He contrasts narrow high-grade veins with district-scale search for large blowouts. He draws parallels between Crippleback and the Valentine deposit and describes drilling plans, tech like multispectral scanning and AI, plus financing and logistics.
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Fresh Eyes Revealed A District Scale System
- Denis Laviolette re-evaluated 130,000m of prior drilling and found a clearer district-scale structural model.
- Over 600 historic holes define a slingshot-shaped vein network along the Valentine Lake Fault analogous to nearby prolific systems.
Narrow Veins Tie Back To Larger Blowout Zones
- Moosehead shows uncanny continuity of narrow, high-grade veins that resemble orogenic mines like Red Lake and Timmins.
- Laviolette says these veins radiate from larger 'blowout' quartz zones which are the key to higher tonnage targets.
Crippleback Shares Valentine Fault Plumbing
- Crippleback hosts identical-age Avalonia basement rocks and sits on the Valentine Lake Fault shear zone, giving it the same 'plumbing' as Equinox's Valentine deposit.
- The host quartz monzonite reacts with gold-bearing fluids making it a favorable sponge rock for mineralization.