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Occurrence Details


Occurrence Number
105C 015
Occurrence Name
Gunsight
Occurrence Type
Hard-rock
Status
Unknown


General Information

Deposit Type(s): Unknown
Location(s): 60.670280 N, -133.331940 W
NTS Mapsheet(s): 105C11
Location Comments: .5 Kilometres
Hand Samples Available at YGS: No

Capsule

Work History

Staked in Jul/53 as the Tag & Sheep cl (66094) by D. McGundy, who restaked the Sheep cl (77841) in Jul/62. Restaked as Law cl (Y25350) in Jul/69 by Contex Silver ML, which performed trenching in 1953.
Restaked as Ace cl (YA3344) in Aug/75 by A. Thorn, who performed hand trenching in 1976; and as Kid cl (YA50690) in Jun/80 by K. Dye. Restaked as Cat cl (YA75604) in May/83 by Harvest Res L.

Capsule Geology

Claims cover Paleozoic? metamorphic rocks which contain an occasional lens of serpentinite and hornblende-gneiss. A fibre specimen from the showing was identified by the GSC as tremolite.

References

CONTEX SILVER ML, Mar/7O. Prospectus by J.A. Millican

GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA Memoir 326, p. 78.

Location Map

Last Updated: Sep 15, 2011

Work History

Year Work Type Comment
1976 Trenching: Hand
1973 Trenching

Regional Geology - Terrane

Group: Intermontane
Affinity: W Laurentia
Name: Yukon-Tanana
Realm: peri-Laurentian


Regional Geology - Bedrock

Supergroup:
Group/Suite: Simpson Range
Formation:
Member:
Terrane: Yukon-Tanana
Period Max: Carboniferous
Age Max: 355 MA
Period Min: Carboniferous
Age Min: 345 MA
Rock Major: orthogneiss
Rock Minor: amphibolite/qt-mica-schist/phyllite
Reference: Gordey & Stevens (1994) - GSC OF 2886
Geological Unit (1M): MSR
Geological Unit (250K): MgSR

Assessment Reports that overlap occurrence

Report Number Year Title Worktypes Holes Drilled Meters Drilled
094873 2007 2007 Geological Report for the Eve Property Rock - Geochemistry, Soil - Geochemistry, Prospecting - Other
094263 2000 Assessment Report; Diamond Drilling and Road Work Completed on the Eve 35-38, Eve 57-58, Eve 3 and Adam 3 Claims All Weather Road - Development, Surface, Diamond - Drilling, Diamond - Drilling, Percussion - Drilling 10 301.76
093247 1994 Trenching Report on the Evelyn Creek Rhodonite Property Bedrock Mapping - Geology, Backhoe - Trenching
092977 1991 Geological, Trenching and Mining Report on the Evelyn Creek Rhodonite Property Bedrock Mapping - Geology, Backhoe - Trenching
062280 1987 Geological Report on Evelyn Creek Property Research/Summarize - Pre-existing Data
091573 1984 Geological Report; Evelyn Creek Property Rock - Geochemistry, Bedrock Mapping - Geology

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