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Noranda Mining & Exploration has discovered a small, uneconomic base metals deposit in the Bathurst camp of northern New Brunswick which could lead to even larger deposits. Called the Camel Back, the recent discovery was made as the direct result of a multi-parameter airborne geophysical survey conducted in 1995-96. The entire Bathurst camp, covering some 3,400 sq. km, was covered in what was called the EXTECH II program, at a line spacing of 200 metres and at a mean terrain clearance of 60 metres. Jeff Carroll, a geologist for Noranda, says the results of the survey, released in July 1996, showed a 40-nT magnetic anomaly with a coincident four-line AEM signature on the Camel Back property, 6 km southeast of the Caribou mine. The anomaly was trenched in October 1996, uncovering magnetite iron formation and gassan, and grading 6.6% lead and 27 grams silver per tonne.