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Tets Property (Copper, Zinc, Lead, Silver)
Tenure Number: 1117100 and 1121429
MINFILE No 093E 084
Assessment Reports 4580,7101,9072,9248,10308,12175,13648,16003,17343,18733,34316
The Tets property consists of two mineral claims ( cells) totalling 514.96 ha located 90km south of Houston. Access to the property is by a network of logging roads, which connects to the provincial highway system at Houston. Alternatively, the Property is accessible year round by helicopter from Smithers, Houston or Terrace. The Tets Property is 69km by highway to a major airport in the city of Smithers with daily scheduled flights to Vancouver and Calgary. It is also a historic mining community and service centre for the area.
The region is host to numerous porphyry copper-gold deposits and prospects near the Property. The currently producing Huckleberry mine is situated 21km to the south and is a major producer of copper, molybdenum, silver and gold. Production at the mine in 2010 was 45,510,000 pounds of copper, 3,195 oz gold, 223,557 oz silver and 84,027 pounds of molybdenum. Proven and Probable reserves as of December 31, 2010 was 11.75 million tonnes grading .359% copper (Imperial Metals website, October 27, 2011). The Berg project, 506 million tonnes grading 0.30% Cu, 0.037% Mo (Terrane Metals website, October 27, 2011) lies 30km to the west of the Property. In the public record, the Tets prospect (Minfile 093E 084) consists of chalcopyrite, sphalerite, galena, bornite, chalcocite, native copper and pyrite in breccia zones, fractures and as open space
fillings in volcanic rocks. Historic samples assayed as high as 15.4% copper and 12.8opt (439g/t) silver. Exploration over much of the area is greatly hampered by widespread, glacial overburden. Historic B-horizon soil surveys outlined a 600m x 1300m copper anomaly with peak values of 350ppm with coincident smaller anomalies in zinc to 2200ppm, lead to 290ppm and widespread silver to 4.7ppm. A single station molybdenum value of 20ppm was returned approximately 500m to the west. It is the author’s opinion that high potential exists for significant porphyry-style copper-gold mineralization on the Property, in which bedrock exposures have been obscured by Quaternary glacial-derived sediment cover. Evidence of similarities in the Property to significant Porphyry deposits include: similar aged volcanic and intrusive rocks, through-going structure similar to that found at nearby major deposits, similar magnetic signatures and anomalous geochemical signatures.
Howe Copper Property (Copper, Silver, Molybdenum, Gold, Bismuth, Quartz Crystal Specimens)
Tenure Number: 1110895,1110902 and 1121430
MINFILE No's 092GNW005,092GNW107,092GNW108
Assessment Reports 725,4003,8822,11619,18609,22242,25498,26234,27585,29487
The Howe Copper prospect is located near the summit of Mount Donaldson, between Clowhom and Sechelt lakes, on the Sechelt Peninsula. The main adit is located at an elevation of 1431 metres.
The Howe Copper occurrence is predominantly underlain by biotite and hornblende-biotite granite of the Jurassic to Cretaceous Coast Plutonic Complex. Intruding these, and incorporating blocks of the biotite granite, is a sugary textured, fine to medium- grained, vuggy muscovite granite. Drusy quartz crystals often line the vugs. The muscovite granite has a potassium-argon age date of 83 million years (Late Cretaceous) (Geological Survey of Canada Open File 611). Locally, several linear outcrops occur, comprised of bedded lapilli tuff or tuffaceous rock striking northeast with moderate dips northwest.
The most prominent feature of the property is the masses of quartz and quartz veins that criss-cross the area. At least three sets of veins are recognized in association with major joints. Two areas of locally widespread and irregular quartz masses are also evident. The veins commonly pinch and swell and appear discontinuous in length. The quartz occurs in the form of milky to translucent masses and crystals. Larger veins are vuggy and often filled with drusy quartz, various copper minerals and muscovite. A persistent mineral constituent of the quartz veins is a muscovite mica, which occurs primarily along the selvage of the veins;. Iit also occurs as massive books completely enveloped by the quartz and lining the vugs and cavities. Small aplitic dikes, 2 to 10 centimetres in width, transect the area and are locally parallel to the strike of the joint systems.
The intrusive rocks are well jointed in at least two directions; the dominant joint striking east with steep north and south dips and the secondary system striking 020 degrees and dipping almost vertically.
The quartz veins structurally parallel each other in a confined area. The three sets of veins strike: (1) east with steep south dips; (2) east with 40 to 65 degree north dips; and (3) north with 0 to 20 degree west dips. The veins commonly split and disappear in hairline fractures; locally they split and rejoin. The veins vary range up to 80 centimetres in width but most are less than 30 centimetres wide. The longest strike length is 274 metres but most are less than 91 metres.
Massive bornite and chalcopyrite are associated with the quartz veining but are also found as minor blebs within vugs of the muscovite granite. Flakes of molybdenite and pods of tetrahedrite and chalcocite were also identified. Cuprite, malachite and azurite are also locally evident and represent oxidation alteration mineralogy.
A total of nine quartz veins have received work in the past. A main adit is developed on the main vein with three parallel veins in the hanging wall (HW 1, HW 2 and HW 3 veins). These four veins strike east and dip south at 45 to 65 degrees. Approximately 61 metres south of the main adit vein three quartz veins strike north with flat dips (10 to 20 degrees) to the west. Two other veins are situated on the saddle north and northeast of Slippery Lake, 700 metres northwest of the main adit on Smithe Lake.
In 1965, seven samples, taken along 26.4 metres of the main vein in the adit, yielded an average of 99.5 grams per tonne silver, 8.26 per cent copper and 0.10 per cent molybdenum over a 0.84 metre width. Sampling of the mineralized muscovite granite yielded up to 0.21 per cent copper and 0.01 per cent molybdenum (Assessment Report 752)
In 1983, a sample from the main adit assayed 15.16 per cent copper and 194.8 grams per tonne silver, while a sample of molybdenite bearing quartz vein near the adit assayed 0.13 per cent molybdenum (Assessment Report 11619).
In 1991, a 13.61 kilogram composite sample (PR90-11) from the portal and dump on the west side of Smithe Lake, selected to represent the main vein and host quartz muscovite granite, yielded greater than 1 per cent copper, 80.0 grams per tonne silver and 0.27 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 22242).
In 2005, a select sample (HC-05-01) of bornite vein material from the main adit dump assayed greater than 50 per cent copper, 603 grams per tonne silver and 0.98 gram per tonne gold, while a 0.5 metre chip sample (HC JL-02), taken from the adit portal vein the following year, assayed 0.52 gram per tonne gold, 931 grams per tonne silver, 48.7 per cent copper and 0.521 per cent bismuth (Assessment Report 29487).
Historic work includes adits, trenching and stripping dating back to 1874 and the discovery of copper mineralization by Howe Sound Mining Company. In 1965, Bralorne Resources completed a program geological mapping, trenching and geochemical sampling on the area as the Zel Group. In 1967, Grasset Lake Mining completed approximately 750 metres of diamond drilling. No information regarding
drilling results was reported. In 1972, Athena Mines completed a 72.0 line- kilometre airborne geophysical survey on the area as the Karen 1-16 claims. In 1980 and 1983, Seatac Resources completed programs of geological mapping, rock sampling and a 6 line-kilometre combined ground magnetic and electromagnetic survey on the area as the Anthony 1-8 claims. In 1988 and 1990, programs of prospecting, geological mapping and rock sampling were completed on the area as the CU 1-4 claims. In 1995, approximately 350 kilograms of rock samples were collected for metallurgical bench testing to test its industrial mineral potential. In 2004, the area was prospected as the HC 1-4 claims for valuable quartz crystal specimens. In 2006, Copper Road Resources prospected the area.
Reno-Donnybrook Property (Gold, Lead, Zinc, Silver, Copper, Mercury, Limestone)
Tenure Number: 1109883
MINFILE No's 082FSW036,082FSW035,082FSW337
The Reno-Donnybrook Project consists of one mineral claim (4 cells) totalling 84.46 ha, is located in the historic Sheep Creek gold camp, an area of rugged ridges and steeply incised drainages typical of the Selkirk Mountains. It is centered approximately 12km east-southeast of the small village municipality of Salmo in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia.
The Reno-Donnybrook Property is readily accessible by paved provincial highways, logging roads and old mining roads. The Reno-Donnybrook Property is accessible by traveling 5km south of Salmo on paved Highway 3/6, then a further 9km east on the Sheep Creek Forest Service Road to the junction of Sheep and Waldie Creeks, the approximate centre of the historic Sheep Creek camp. Access from this point to all of the vein occurrences and past producers on the Project is by mine and exploration access roads. Many of these roads are currently in disrepair and are only suitable for rugged all-terrain vehicles. Some of the roads require significant upgrading to make them appropriate for 4x4 pickup travel. The Project is about 40km by highway to a major airport in the city of Castlegar with daily
scheduled flights to Vancouver and Calgary. It is also about 40km to the city of Trail and its Teck-owned smelter. The city of Nelson, an historic mining and service centre for the area, is located 40km north of Salmo.
The Reno mine commenced production in 1906 and produced intermittently until 1979. In total, 404,472 tonnes of ore were mined from which was recovered 7,270,227 grams of gold, 3,216,394 grams of silver, 2,858 kilograms of copper, 89,056 kilograms of lead and 60,907 tonnes of zinc. Some of this production has come from other nearby workings such as the Donnybrook (082FSW035) and the Bluestone (082FSW037).
Visible free gold is common, occurring in association with limonitic quartz (Langley, 1928).
The Reno veins were some of the richest gold-bearing structures in the Sheep Creek camp. Mathews (1953) describes two main ore shoots on the 3 Level drift (above the main haulage level) as i) an easterly ore shoot exposed continuously for 55m along strike that averaged 3 oz/ton (103 g/t) Au over a width of 1.7 ft (0.52m) and ii) a westerly ore shoot exposed continuously for 26m along strike that averaged 2.7 oz/ton (92.6 g/t) Au over a width of 1.5 ft (0.45m). Minimum mining widths of approximately 3 ft (1m) resulted in significant dilution.
The Donnybrook vein, approximately 518m to
the north, is a persistent well-defined white quartz vein oriented 080/80°S that reaches widths of about 3 ft (0.9m). Gold values in the Donnybrook vein were apparently lower than those found in the Reno vein (Langley, 1924). The Clarence and Lake veins occur further north of, and are similar to, the Donnybrook vein, but no details for them are known, except for their relative locations.
During 2008 through 2016, Yellowstone Resources Ltd. examined the area as the Sheep Creek property. In late 2016, Margaux Resources Ltd. optioned the property and in 2017 examined the area. A sample (SC17-BL03) from an ore bin assayed 58.63 grams per tonne gold, 21.22 grams per tonne silver and 0.545 per cent zinc (Lane, R.A. (2017-08-17): NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Sheep Creek Project).
Second Relief Property (Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Molybdenum)
Tenure Number: 1111714
MINFILE No 082FSW187
Assessment Report 2146,11451,11552,11785,13039,13115,13486,14637,14886,14966,19839
The Second Relief property consists of one mineral claim (1 cell) totalling 21.06 ha located 20km northwest of Salmo. Access to the property is by a network of logging roads, which connects to the provincial highway system at Salmo. Alternatively, the Property is accessible year round by helicopter from Nelson, Castlegar or Trail.
The deposit was brought into production in 1902, was mined until 1919, resumed in 1928 and produced until 1941. This is the third largest gold-enriched skarn producer in the province. The main vein has been opened on 11 levels.
The area is underlain by lapilli tuff (Unit Je8l, Open File 1989-11) and augite porphyry volcanics of the Elise Formation and siltstone, sandstone, argillite and quartzite of the Archibald Formation both of the Lower Jurassic Rossland Group. These occur as a roof pendant within granodiorite of the Bonnington pluton of the Middle to Late Jurassic Nelson Intrusions. The deposit occurs on the west limb of the Erie Creek anticline along the Red Mountain fault.
The Second Relief mine comprises at least eight subparalllel veins striking northeast and dipping steeply northwest in greenstone or argillaceous quartzite. These are the Second Relief or No.1, the No.'s 2 to 5, the Ida D and the Inez and Rand veins (082FSW216). The veins are sheared, quartz poor structures irregularly mineralized with pyrite and/or pyrrhotite plus one or more of magnetite, chalcopyrite, and sphalerite. Some of
the veins locally host fine-grained visible gold. Gold and silver bearing veins consist of quartz, pyrite, epidote, garnet and magnetite. Lesser auriferous veins contain massive pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite.
The Second Relief is the main economic vein but the No.'s 2 to 5 parallel veins occur immediately to the southeast within about 100 metres. The Second Relief vein follows the hanging wall contact of an 8 to 12 metre wide diorite porphyry dyke and crosscuts projections of that dyke into the country rock. Where the dyke and vein go from volcanics to sediments the vein tends to follow the general bedding of the sediments but at the same time the precious metal values decrease greatly. The Second Relief or No.1 vein is 0.2 to 3.5 metres wide, has a strike length of 300 metres and has been mined to a depth of 400 metres. The vein strikes 050 degrees and dips 80 to 85 degrees north. The gangue comprises quartz and locally disseminated magnetite, garnet and epidote, indicating the likely presence of skarn alteration associated with the Nelson batholith immediately to the northeast of the occurrence. The vein carries pyrite, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite with traces of molybdenite reported. The parallel veins were disappointing in their precious metal values.
The No. 2 vein, about 10 to 16 metres southeast of the No. 1 vein, is over 300 metres long and has been exposed by trenching for more than 228 metres. The exposed mineralized portion of the vein is up to 2.4 metres wide. Gold assayed between 0.137 to 34.2 grams per tonne gold across 1 metre or more . This vein is similar to the Second Relief vein and closely parallels it in strike and dip. The vein, hosted by fragmental volcanic rocks, is mineralized with pyrite, pyrrhotite, magnetite, sphalerite, chalcopyrite and, locally, visible fine-grained gold particles. Vein quartz is sparse and the vein is surrounded by a silicification envelope.
The No. 3 vein is a narrow stringer with no obvious mineralization.
The No. 4 vein, 96 metres southeast of the No. 1 vein, has been exposed by open cuts over a length of 15 metres. The quartz vein hosts pyrrhotite with chalcopyrite and a sample across 0.5 metre assayed 12.3 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 19839). The hanging wall is greenstone and the footwall is diorite.
The No. 5 vein, 106 metres east of the workings, is mineralized with pyrite and chalcopyrite. In the adit, the vein is 1.5 metres wide. In 1988, 2 samples assayed 0.07 and 26.53 grams per tonne gold respectively (Assessment Report 19839).
The Ida D vein occurs in the central portion of the property, about 150 metres west of the Second Relief vein Samples from the portal area in 1988 assayed 0.10 to 35.65 grams per tonne gold
(Assessment Report 19839). Production from this vein is reported as 34,280 grams of gold.
Sampling of pyritic alteration zones in the central portion of the property assayed 6.2 grams per tonne gold over more than 7 metres (Vancouver Stockwatch, Sept. 12, 1989).
The deposit is classed as a gold-enriched skarn. Production totals 207,023 tonnes which yielded 866,433 grams of silver, 3,117,637 grams of gold, 20,210 kilograms of copper, 1057 kilograms of lead and 147 kilograms of zinc.
The Dove Property (Gold, Copper, Silver)
The Dove property consists of one mineral claim (4 cells) totalling 78.50 ha located 00km south of Valemount. Access to the property is by logging road, which connects to the provincial highway system south of Valemount. Alternatively, the Property is accessible year round by helicopter from Valemount or Clearwater.
The North Thompson and Albreda River valleys have undergone little exploration since the Cariboo Gold Rush of the 1800s. In the early 1970s, a stream sediment sampling program was done in the area by Hudson's Bay Minerals exploring for copper. The area received some interest in 1977 during exploration of the nearby Lempierre (083D 005) uranium deposit. In 1978, the Ingrid 1-4 claims (formerly WM 1-4 claims) were staked by V. Trarup to cover malachite mineralization discovered while putting in the hydro line. Redbird optioned the Ingrid claims and staked the Dove 1-6 claims in about 1985 and, in 1986, conducted a geochemical survey. Prospecting in 1987 consisted of blasting and trenching a native gold showing, soil sampling on the Dove 3-4 and Ingrid 1-4 claims, geochemistry, 7 diamond drill holes, 7 pack sack holes, cat excavation of mineralized zones, mapping and a magnetometer survey. This work outlined two mineralized zones (upper and lower).
The area is underlain by Upper Proterozoic rocks of the Malton Gneiss Complex. These comprise quartz mica schist, amphibolite, hornblende and/or biotite quartz-feldspathic gneiss, quartzite, granitic orthogneiss and feldspar augen gneiss. The rocks on the property are predominantly quartz mica schist, amphibolite and hornblende gneiss. All rock types contain numerous massive white quartz veins and stringers. There have been several folding episodes resulting in a fold with a west-northwest axis. The North Thompson Valley fault runs from Valemount to Blue River. The strata generally dips south-southwest but is variable.
The Dove occurrence consists of 2 vertically adjacent mineralized zones, containing gold and copper, and 2 mineralized stratiform units. The subsurface stratiform units are indicated by diamond drilling. Mineralization consists of native gold, malachite, bornite, and some hematite and chalcopyrite. Mineralization occurs along fractures and foliation surfaces and in quartz veins associated with biotite schist and hornblende gneiss.
A 70 metre exposure of the lower zone, about 3 metres wide, consists mainly of quartz veins, hornblende-quartz gneiss, quartz-biotite- muscovite gneiss and biotite schist. Assay values from samples ranged from 0.10 to 8.64 grams per tonne gold 0.2 to 51.9 grams per tonne silver and less than 0.01 to 1.82 per cent copper (Assessment Report 17427).
A 20 metre exposure of the upper zone, about 4 to 5 metres wide, consists mainly of quartz veins, hornblende-biotite-quartz gneiss, mica schist and quartz-mica gneiss. Assays values from samples ranged from 0.18 to 7.45 grams per tonne gold, 0.1 to 60.5 grams per tonne silver, and 0.01 to 1.77 per cent copper (Assessment Report 17427).
In general, drilling indicated low grades even in some sections which contain visible native gold. The most encouraging values occurred along trend of slickenside lineations which suggests that the deposit is, to some extent, structurally controlled. Mineralization, proven by drilling, occurs over an area of approximately 200 square metres.
Mineralization occurred relatively late and was associated with zones of deformation that apparently were confined mainly to less competent mafic rich units. Quartz veins, some mica schists and epidote rich layers in hornblende gneiss exhibit the highest degree of gold mineralization.
Windy Arm Property (Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc)
The Windy showing is located on the southeast shore of Windy Arm (Tagish Lake), directly across from the old Wynton townsite, towards the northwest of British Columbia. Whitehorse, Yukon is about 80 kilometres north and access is by helicopter or boat.
The area is underlain by Middle to Upper Cretaceous rhyolite and felsic volcanic rocks of the Windy Table Complex. These rocks lie in faulted contact (striking northeast-southwest and dipping approximately 40 degrees northeast) with Lower Jurassic Laberge Group (Inklin Formation) sedimentary rocks to the southwest. Two Late Cretaceous granitic plugs intrude into the felsic volcanics on the eastern shore of Windy Arm, just northeast of the property. Glacial drift from the most recent Cordilleran glaciation covers the eastern and southern extent of the claim area. Inklin Formation sediments consist of argillite, greywacke and siltstone.
The Lakeshore zone consists of two adits (of unknown age) collared at the base of a small cliff that follow quartz veins. One adit remains open for 30 metres while the entrance to the second has collapsed (ca. 1986). An attempt to reopen the second adit during October 1985 proved unsuccessful. Above the two adits a shaft following a 20-centimetre-wide quartz vein has sloughed at 5 metres of depth. Elsewhere, old pits lie just above the lakeshore several hundred metres along regional strike from the adits. Two of the pits were reworked in a 1985 exploration program. The adits are driven near a feldspar porphyry dike which intrudes felsic tuffs. A bleached alteration zone
of light-orange colour surrounds the dike, and numerous quartz veins and veinlets occur in the altered tuff. The porphyry dike trends in a southeastern direction and in parts forms the hanging wall for quartz veins examined in the open adit. The quartz veins are generally oriented parallel to the porphyry dikes and range in width from 1 to 40 centimetres. Sulphide minerals occur as coarse crystals or as fine-grained bands in the vuggy quartz veins. Arsenopyrite forms up to 10 per cent of the vein material and assay comparisons suggest that the coarse-grained arsenopyrite is associated with the gold mineralization. Bands of fine- to medium-grained galena, sphalerite and chalcopyrite occur near the margins of the main vein and in some of the narrower veins. Generally, the sulphide mineral distribution is irregular with pockets of arsenopyrite, galena, sphalerite and chalcopyrite-rich quartz separated by barren white quartz. Near the adits, selective grab samples of arsenopyrite-rich quartz analyzed up to 40.1 grams per tonne gold, while samples containing sphalerite and galena yielded gold values of 4.4 to 12.2 grams per tonne and silver values up to 431.9 grams per tonne (Assessment Report 27748).
WHAM Property (Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead)
Tenure Number: 1114252
MINFILE No 082ESE039
Assessment Reports 12367,13606,14758
The WHAM property consists of one mineral claim (17 cells) totalling 358.80 ha located 35km east of Castlegar. Access to the property is by a network of logging roads, just off the provincial highway system. The International Reverted Crown grant (Lot 2873) and The Nordhausen Reverted Crown grant (Lot 2874) are located under the WHAM Property.
The area is underlain by porphyritic granite and granodiorite of the Jurassic Nelson Batholith, which is in contact to the east with syenite of the Eocene Coryell Intrusives. Remnants of Anarchist and Mt. Roberts volcanics and sediments are present.
A shear zone, trending north 45 degrees east, dipping 65 degrees east, is up to 2 metres and cuts the granite. Quartz stringers within the shear zone contain pyrite, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite. A sample returned 29.3 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 12367). Another sample 1 kilometre to the northeast returned 8.68 grams per tonne gold and 29.1 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 13606). A sample taken in 1936 returned 11 grams per tonne gold and 158 grams per tonne silver (Sargent, 1936).
Rex Silver Mines Ltd. conducted sampling and geophysical surveys in the area in 1983, 1985 and 1986.
In 2006, Astral Mining Corporation conducted a helicopter-borne geophysical (electromagnetic) survey on the area as a part of the JJ property.
Amaris Rose Property (Copper, Silver)
Tenure Numbers: 1111634,1111653,1112318,1113248
MINFILE No 082JSW007,082JNW009
Assessment Reports 2437,2667,3504,7084,7782,9958
The Amaris Rose property consists of four mineral claims (12 cells) totalling 246.68 ha located 6km west of Invermere. Access to the property is by a network of logging roads, just off the provincial highway system. The Swansea Reverted Crown grant (Lot 2576) is located under the Amaris Rose Property.
The history of mineral exploration in the vicinity of Mt Swansea dates back to the turn of the century when work was carried out on the Swansea crown-granted mineral claim -L2576, This property was worked in 1898 by the Mines Development and Guarantee Trust Co. of Rossland who sunk shafts, and drove a 140 foot tunnel. Four tons of ore were shipped for mill test. Sampling of ore on the dump by the local Gold Commissioner that year yielded an assay of 17.5% copper. In 1899 a crew of six men worked all summer on the property, and 100 tons of ore were hauled out the following winter. No reports
of further work are indicated until the crown grant was taken over by Sheep Creek Gold Mines Limited, who did some diamond drilling in 1947 with inconclusive results. In 1956 the crown granted claim and 28 recorded claims surrounding it were held by Mid-West Copper and Uranium Mines Ltd. They drove the new adit for 600 feet of drifting and cross-cutting and 40 feet of raising.
At the Swansea occurrence, tan and white weathering blocky dolomites of the Middle-Upper Cambrian Jubilee Formation are cut by a fault zone trending 020 degrees and dipping about 75 degrees west. The dolomites along this zone are faulted and brecciated with the breccia healed by carbonate containing disseminations and patches of malachite and azurite with associated bornite, chalcocite and chalcopyrite. A grab sample of malachite-azurite-rich material returned an assay high of 17.5 per cent copper. The fault-breccia zone is variable in width and appears to be located along a single fault zone which hosts both the Swansea and Rose 1 (082JSW007) showings
Smurph Property (Gold)
Tenure Number: 1120953
Minfile no 082FSW393
The showing is located on South Murphy Creek, approximately 12 kilometres northwest of Trail.
Regionally, the area is underlain by a sequence of Pennsylvanian to Permian Mount Roberts Formation meta-sediments intruded by the Jurassic Mackie pluton to the north and Trail pluton to the southeast with the Eocene Coryell Batholith to the west.
Mineralization consists primarily of massive arsenopyrite and pyrrhotite, with rare chalcopyrite, galena, and sphalerite within zones up to 15 centimeters in width.
The Smurph claims are a part of the Murphy Creek Project of Kootenay Gold Inc. Exploration, which, since 2003, has focused on an area containing a number of old workings occurring roughly on two parallel northwest trends. These workings were targeting sulphide and gold-bearing structures hosted by metasediments.
In 2005, prospecting on the property lead to the collection of five rock samples. These returned values ranging from 5 grams per tonne gold to a high of 41 grams per tonne (Assessment Report 27909).
In 2006, rock sample SMR13 returned 464 parts per billion gold and 490 parts per million arsenic (Assessment Report 29327).
In 2007, seven diamond drill holes, totalling 812 metres, were completed. No grades are known, at this time, but one hole intersected 0.7 metres of fracture-controlled pyrrhotite with lesser pyrite and trace chalcopyrite, occurring within a monzodiorite unit. Here, 5 to 7 per cent pyrrhotite occurs as massive replacements (Assessment Report 29636).
Hanging Judge Property (Rare Earth Elements, Lithium, Gemstones)
Tenure Number: Good to Date:
The Hanging Judge project was acquired to cover very prospective geology for hosting numerous LCT pegmatite bodies that are enriched with Rare Earth Elements, Lithium, Tourmaline and Beryl. Numerous documented LCT type pegmatites are known to occur in the immediate area, as well as the discovery of coloured Tourmalines and Beryl’s. The Hanging Judge Property is located approximately 10 km south of Revelstoke in southeast British Columbia.The Property is located on the eastern slopes of Mount Begbie, where numerous logging roads transect the property providing good road access and rock exposures for cost effective exploration.
Clearcut Property (Rhodonite)
Tenure Number: 1112196
MINFILE No 082ESE241
The Clearcut property consists of one mineral claim (1 cell) totalling 21.11 ha located 13km northeast of Greenwood. Access to the property is by a network of logging roads, which connects to the provincial highway system at Rock Creek.
The main exposure is a 10-metre long roadcut that displays pink pyroxmanganite and rhodonite coated with black manganese oxide. This rock has a sugary texture and grades into quartz-rich rock containing spessartine garnet and light coloured mica.
The host rocks are part of the Upper Paleozoic Knob Hill Group that outcrops in an southeast trending belt extending from the lower course of Clement Creek to Jewel Lake and thence to the area northwest of Mount Roderick Dhu. The Knob Hill Group consists of a variety of volcanic and sedimentary rocks converted to amphibolite and quartz-mica schists by regional metamorphism. The rocks are medium to fine grained, medium to dark coloured. Primary structures, such as bedding, are often confused with foliation and gneissosity. The metasedimentary rocks consist of quartz (15 to 90 per cent), plagioclase, biotite and some garnet and magnetite, and less commonly amphibole, chlorite, muscovite and occasionally andalusite. Because of recrystallization, metaquartzites and metacherts cannot be distinguished. The amphibolites generally occur as massive lenses - possibly derived from basaltic lava flows and pyroclastic rocks. Typically the amphibolites consist of 40 to 70 per cent green amphibole, and smaller amounts of plagioclase, quartz, magnetite and titanite. Epidote, calcite and quartz are present in abundance associated with small veins and fissures.
The Clearcut pyroxmanganite/rhodonite occurrence is a stratabound deposit associated with what appears to be the metamorphic equivalent of volcanic rocks and siliceous and pelitic sediments. The absence of the primary detrital textures within the silica-rich host rocks is consistent with a chemical precipitate protolith, either of sedimentary or hydrothermal origin. Many similar manganese deposits are considered distal equivalents of volcanogenic massive sulphide deposits.
Zwicky Harp Property (Rhodonite, Manganese, Garnet, Gemstones, Copper)
Tenure Number: 1111657
MINFILE No 082FNE152
A series of quartz veins occur in sedimentary rocks or along the contact of sediments with greenstone schist of the Lower Permian Kaslo Group. The footwall rock of one vein was explored by a short adit. It consists of a greenish schist carrying abundant rhodonite in lens-like masses from 5 to 45 centimetres wide, adjacent to the quartz vein. The hangingwall is a quartzitic argillite containing manganiferous garnet, partly altered to manganese oxide.
The veins consist of vitreous to smoky quartz mineralized with pyrrhotite, pyrite and chalcopyrite.
Claimes Franco 2 Property (Gold, Copper, Magnetite, Zinc, Silver)
Tenure Number: 1110636
MINFILE No 082FSW167
The Claimes Franco 2 Property is located just south of the contact between the Lower Jurassic Rossland Group (Elise Formation) volcanics and the Early Jurassic Rossland monzonite stock. The Elise Formation in this area has recently been mapped as argillaceous siltstone (Unit Je10a, Open File 1991-2).
A zone about 150 metres by 150 metres contains rocks that have been contact metamorphosed and host abundant magnetite and epidote. A sample taken in 1947 across 46 centimetres of "magnetite vein" assayed 1.37 grams per tonne gold, 0.27 per cent zinc and trace silver and lead (Assessment Report 24, Sheet 2). In 1981, a grab sample taken from the highly altered rock assayed 1.03 grams per tonne gold, 1.03 grams per tonne silver, 0.16 per cent copper, 0.01 per cent lead and less than 0.01 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 9827). Associated with the contact zone is a highly siliceous zone which hosts quartz veinlets with chalcopyrite and arsenopyrite.
In 1988, the zone was trenched in an east direction for about 75 metres. Within the trenched area, the mineralization consists of a central core of massive arsenopyrite, flanked by a much broader zone of massive magnetite, pyrite, pyrrhotite and minor chalcopyrite. Alteration minerals observed here were epidote, calcite, hornblende, garnet, muscovite, and graphite. One trench sample site exhibiting strong silicification assayed 17.62 grams per tonne gold across 2 metres.
Paystone/Coppervault Property (Copper, Silver, Gold)
Tenure Number: 1111610
MINFILE No 082KNE069
The Paystone/Coppervault property consists of one mineral claim (1 cell) totalling 20.51 ha located 15km west of Radium Hot Springs. Access to the property is by a network of logging roads, which connects to the provincial highway system at Radium Hot Springs.
The Paystone group of four claims, including the Copper Vault, were situated on an area of quartzite and slate possibly of the Upper Proterozoic Horsethief Creek Group.
The showing is reported to be a 2.4-metre wide vein or "lead". Development consisted of a 9-metre tunnel and a 7.6-metre deep shaft on the Paystone. Development on the Copper Vault consisted of a 14.6-metre tunnel showing a "good body of ore" assaying 12 per cent copper, 5 ounces (171.43 grams per tonne) in silver and $4 in gold per ton (Annual Report 1903, page 104).
Be 4 Property (Beryllium, Beryl, Gemstones)
Tenure Number: 1112317
East of Revelstoke, road acces aquamarine.
Clearview Project (Gemstones)
Tenure Number: 1107746
Beryl has been reported in pegmatite in the Valhalla Mountains. Gem-quality aquamarine has been found in pegmatite dykes. High quality black and smokey grey quartz crystals are also common.
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Eastgate Property (Copper, Gold, Silver, Zinc, Lead, Molybdenum)
Tenure Numbers: 1099057,1104223,1106654,1110215,1110261,1111768,1111815,1111823
MINFILE No's 092HSE067,092HSE068,092HSE069,092HSE093,092HSE191
The Eastgate Property is currently optioned, for more information on the property, including purchasing or investing in, please reach out to Kermode Resources Ltd. (KLM.V)
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