03/06/2026
What if a fried egg could help you find a world-class mineral deposit?
At Royal Road, we use this analogy to explain one of our favorite geological signals - the skarn.
Skarns form when hot magmatic fluids react with carbonate rocks like limestone, transforming them into dense, metal-rich assemblages.
Importantly, they can be mineralized, hosting gold, copper, and other metals. But when a skarn is also linked to a porphyry system, it becomes something more: a signpost to something potentially much larger.
Think of it like a fried egg.
The yolk is the porphyry core. The egg white is the skarn, wrapping around it. You can't always see the yolk straight away. But if you're standing in the egg white, you know you're close.
At our GAM project, that's exactly where we find ourselves. Drill holes 9 and 10 at the Algodona target have intersected mineralized skarn on the shoulder of what we believe is a significant porphyry system. The egg white isn't just a pointer, it's already showing us metal. And the yolk is still the target.
We've hit the egg white. The yolk is the target.
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