General Information
Aliases: Ricardo, Hidden Valley, Dull Spur, Green Dragon
Deposit Type(s): Unknown
Location(s): 61.932430 N, -128.396070 W
NTS Mapsheet(s): 105H16
Location Comments: Location marks highest gold soil sample collected to date.
Hand Samples Available at YGS: No
Last Reviewed: Apr 16, 2018
Capsule
Last Updated: Apr 16, 2018WORK HISTORY
*In Apr/2018 occurrence was moved 1.3 km to northeast to approximate center of Dull Spur zone.
Staked as Ricardo cl 1-2 (77032) in Oct/61 by J.C. Turner for Canada Tungsten Mining Corporation Ltd.
Restaked as Kay cl 1-2 (YA55499) in Jul/80 by Alex Black, and as Lynx cl 1-2 (YA66916) in Aug/81 by E. Brodhagen.
In the summer of 2009 Messrs. R. Stack, G. Lee and R. Scott carried out a reconnaissance-style rock, soil and silt sampling program along a 30 km stretch of the Nahanni Range road. In Sep/2009 the group staked Red Bluff cl 1-4 (YC93596) 3.75 km to the south east and Zanzibar cl 1-5 (YC93600) 3 km to the east.
In Sep/2010 the group staked RE cl 1-2 (YD17361) 3.75 km to the south.
In Apr/2011 the group staked Red Bluff cl 5-14 (YE48027) and Zanzibar cl 5-30 (YE48001).
In May/2011 Commander Resources Ltd surrounded the RE, Red Bluff and Zanzibar claim blocks with Glen cl 1-83 (YE36683). The Glen claims were staked in conjunction with Glen cl 83-150 (YE36683) located north of the Golden Culvert property (Minfile Occurrence #105H 067) and are part of an option agreement the company formalized with the ownership group on June 2, 2011. The option agreement covers all of the ownership group claims which encompassed the Little Hyland property except for those claims which encompass the Golden Culvert and Rubus (northern Rubus claims) properties.
Commander Resources renamed the optioned claims the Glenmorangie project and split the property into the North block (located north of the Golden Culvert property) and the South block (located to the south). Between July and Aug/2011, the company carried out reconnaissance prospecting, geological mapping and rock, silt and grid soil sampling on the South block (this occurrence).
In 2012 Commander Resources carried out follow-up silt and grid soil sampling on the northwest side of the South block.
On December 27, 2013 Yukon Government passed an Order in Council (O.I.C. 2013/224) prohibiting entry on certain lands (Ross River Area) for the purpose of staking Quartz or Placer Mining claims. The Order was made to facilitate continuing consultation with the Ross River Dena Council and covers the Glenmorangie, Golden Culvert and Rubus properties. The Order in Council provides registered active claims holders in the affected area relief from annual assessment work obligations. The Order in Council has been renewed several times and is currently valid to January 31, 2019 (it may be renewed in the future).
In 2013, 14 and 15, Commander Resources transferred shares of the company to the ownership group in order to retain the option on the Glenmorangie property. On June 30, 2016 Commander Resources dropped its option on the Glenmorangie property and returned all of the affected claims to the ownership group thus once again consolidating the Rubus, Golden Culvert and Glenmorangie (Little Hyland) properties under one ownership group.
On September 27, 2017 South Shore Partnership Inc, a private company, acquired an option to acquire the Golden Culvert property and the northern portion of the Rubus claims in return for cash, shares and certain work commitments. The partnership also optioned the Little Hyland North and Little Hyland South blocks (formerly named Glenmorangie property) located directly north and south of the Golden Culvert property under a separate option agreement. In total the partnership optioned 431 contiguous quartz claims. The two separate option agreements were required to cover separate ownership interests, i.e. Scott and Lee in the first agreement and Scott, Lee and prospector Ron Stack in the second group.
On October 23, 2017 South Shore Partnership assigned the two option agreements to Stratabound Minerals Corp in return for staged cash and share payments and Stratabound assuming the previous negotiated work commitments. Following the signing of the agreement Stratabound completed a due diligence site visit to the properties where they collected a series of rock samples from various showings. The visit and resulting assays confirmed past field results and on December 18, 2017, Stratabound Minerals finalized the option agreements.
On February 12, 2018, Stratabound Minerals filed a NI-43-101 compliant Technical Report on the Golden Culvert, Rubus and Little Hyland properties with SEDAR.
GEOLOGY
The Glenmorangie property (South block) is located approximately 255 km north of the Town of Watson Lake in southeast Yukon. The Nahanni Range road which services the former Cantung mine (located approximately 10 km to the east), runs along the west side of the property. Access within the property is generally by 4-wheeler or helicopter to the more remote areas.
The majority of the area has not yet been remapped by the Yukon Geological Survey. In early 2016 M. Colpron of the Yukon Geological Survey (YGS) released an updated geological compilation map of the Yukon which included this area. In late 2016 D. Moynihan of the YGS released a 1:50 000 geology map of the Upper Hyland River area. The map only covers areas located west of the Nahanni Range road thus the South block is not covered. The map is useful for the stratigraphic relationships.
Based on reconnaissance scale geological mapping conducted by Commander Resource’s geologists in 2011, the South block is mainly underlain by Neoproterozoic to Lower Cambrian Hyland Group (Windermere Supergroup), clastic rocks assigned to the Vampire Formation. Geologists employed by Commander Resources mapped dark brown to green, fine grained and thinly-bedded, argillaceous sandstone and siltstone with minor, interbedded, medium- to coarse grained, white to light grey orthoquartzite, phyllite, slate and argillite.
A felsic intrusion intrudes the Vampire Formation rocks along the northwest side of the South block. The intrusion trends southeast and extends off of the block where it appears to have been truncated by an inferred fault. A small mafic intrusion (mid-Cretaceous?) intrudes the felsic intrusion in the vicinity of the Ricardo showing. A larger felsic intrusion lies at the southwest end of the block. It trends southeast off the property and appears to have been sliced into several elongated portions by a series of southeast trending offsetting faults which can be observed on publicly released government funded, airborne magnetics data. Minor semi-massive disseminated sulphide float boulders were observed in the southeast corner of the South block and galena associated with a ~ 20 mm quartz vein located close to a fault/shear zone was noted in the Red Bluffs area of the block.
The original Ricardo showing (~ 530940 E, 6865650 N) is reported to consist of a ferricrete spring gossan that occurs in a small stream that cuts across the Nahanni Range road near the southeast corner of Glen claim #40. Based on current mapping the areas appears to be underlain by a small mafic intrusion that intrudes an older (?) felsic intrusion. Colpron’s regional geological compilation displays an age of 97.2 +/- 0.5 million years for the intrusion. It appears Canada Tungsten Mining and subsequent owners examined and assayed the showing but it appears no mineralization was detected.
The occurrence location marks the Dull Spur zone, also called the Hidden Valley zone in Commander Resource’s news releases. The Dull Spur zone, the name used in Stratabound Minerals’ 43-101 technical report, marks a circular area approximately 1 km in diameter that hosts 5 anomalous gold soil samples ranging from 13 ppb to 131 ppb gold. Heavy metal concentrate sampling of silts draining from this area returned 8 grains of gold, the highest number found to date. The anomalous zone also hosts 5 anomalous silver samples ranging up to 0.55 ppm silver. No in situ mineralization has been found to date and the anomalous values correlate to northwest-trending faults. The occurrence location marks the site of the highest gold result (131 ppb gold).
During the Oct/2017 due diligence site visit, geologists employed by Stratabound Minerals discovered the Green Dragon showing (~ UTM 531945 E, 6867740 N). The showing lies about 50 m south of the northern boundary of the South Block and approximately 1.4 km south along strike of the Golden Culvert Main showing. The showing was found by prospecting eastward from the soil anomaly found by Commander Resources. The showing consists of a 2 to 3 m wide quartz-carbonate vein containing minor disseminated chalcopyrite that is covered by green malachite staining. The vein has been traced on surface for a distance of about 20 m in a northwesterly direction. Chip and grab rock samples returned assay values absent in gold but did carry values up to 6 575 ppm copper and 13 805 ppb silver. Stratabound Mineral geologists noted other areas with copper staining on the South block.
Stratabound Minerals has not yet carried out any significant exploration on the South block.
*In Apr/2018 occurrence was moved 1.3 km to northeast to approximate center of Dull Spur zone.
Staked as Ricardo cl 1-2 (77032) in Oct/61 by J.C. Turner for Canada Tungsten Mining Corporation Ltd.
Restaked as Kay cl 1-2 (YA55499) in Jul/80 by Alex Black, and as Lynx cl 1-2 (YA66916) in Aug/81 by E. Brodhagen.
In the summer of 2009 Messrs. R. Stack, G. Lee and R. Scott carried out a reconnaissance-style rock, soil and silt sampling program along a 30 km stretch of the Nahanni Range road. In Sep/2009 the group staked Red Bluff cl 1-4 (YC93596) 3.75 km to the south east and Zanzibar cl 1-5 (YC93600) 3 km to the east.
In Sep/2010 the group staked RE cl 1-2 (YD17361) 3.75 km to the south.
In Apr/2011 the group staked Red Bluff cl 5-14 (YE48027) and Zanzibar cl 5-30 (YE48001).
In May/2011 Commander Resources Ltd surrounded the RE, Red Bluff and Zanzibar claim blocks with Glen cl 1-83 (YE36683). The Glen claims were staked in conjunction with Glen cl 83-150 (YE36683) located north of the Golden Culvert property (Minfile Occurrence #105H 067) and are part of an option agreement the company formalized with the ownership group on June 2, 2011. The option agreement covers all of the ownership group claims which encompassed the Little Hyland property except for those claims which encompass the Golden Culvert and Rubus (northern Rubus claims) properties.
Commander Resources renamed the optioned claims the Glenmorangie project and split the property into the North block (located north of the Golden Culvert property) and the South block (located to the south). Between July and Aug/2011, the company carried out reconnaissance prospecting, geological mapping and rock, silt and grid soil sampling on the South block (this occurrence).
In 2012 Commander Resources carried out follow-up silt and grid soil sampling on the northwest side of the South block.
On December 27, 2013 Yukon Government passed an Order in Council (O.I.C. 2013/224) prohibiting entry on certain lands (Ross River Area) for the purpose of staking Quartz or Placer Mining claims. The Order was made to facilitate continuing consultation with the Ross River Dena Council and covers the Glenmorangie, Golden Culvert and Rubus properties. The Order in Council provides registered active claims holders in the affected area relief from annual assessment work obligations. The Order in Council has been renewed several times and is currently valid to January 31, 2019 (it may be renewed in the future).
In 2013, 14 and 15, Commander Resources transferred shares of the company to the ownership group in order to retain the option on the Glenmorangie property. On June 30, 2016 Commander Resources dropped its option on the Glenmorangie property and returned all of the affected claims to the ownership group thus once again consolidating the Rubus, Golden Culvert and Glenmorangie (Little Hyland) properties under one ownership group.
On September 27, 2017 South Shore Partnership Inc, a private company, acquired an option to acquire the Golden Culvert property and the northern portion of the Rubus claims in return for cash, shares and certain work commitments. The partnership also optioned the Little Hyland North and Little Hyland South blocks (formerly named Glenmorangie property) located directly north and south of the Golden Culvert property under a separate option agreement. In total the partnership optioned 431 contiguous quartz claims. The two separate option agreements were required to cover separate ownership interests, i.e. Scott and Lee in the first agreement and Scott, Lee and prospector Ron Stack in the second group.
On October 23, 2017 South Shore Partnership assigned the two option agreements to Stratabound Minerals Corp in return for staged cash and share payments and Stratabound assuming the previous negotiated work commitments. Following the signing of the agreement Stratabound completed a due diligence site visit to the properties where they collected a series of rock samples from various showings. The visit and resulting assays confirmed past field results and on December 18, 2017, Stratabound Minerals finalized the option agreements.
On February 12, 2018, Stratabound Minerals filed a NI-43-101 compliant Technical Report on the Golden Culvert, Rubus and Little Hyland properties with SEDAR.
GEOLOGY
The Glenmorangie property (South block) is located approximately 255 km north of the Town of Watson Lake in southeast Yukon. The Nahanni Range road which services the former Cantung mine (located approximately 10 km to the east), runs along the west side of the property. Access within the property is generally by 4-wheeler or helicopter to the more remote areas.
The majority of the area has not yet been remapped by the Yukon Geological Survey. In early 2016 M. Colpron of the Yukon Geological Survey (YGS) released an updated geological compilation map of the Yukon which included this area. In late 2016 D. Moynihan of the YGS released a 1:50 000 geology map of the Upper Hyland River area. The map only covers areas located west of the Nahanni Range road thus the South block is not covered. The map is useful for the stratigraphic relationships.
Based on reconnaissance scale geological mapping conducted by Commander Resource’s geologists in 2011, the South block is mainly underlain by Neoproterozoic to Lower Cambrian Hyland Group (Windermere Supergroup), clastic rocks assigned to the Vampire Formation. Geologists employed by Commander Resources mapped dark brown to green, fine grained and thinly-bedded, argillaceous sandstone and siltstone with minor, interbedded, medium- to coarse grained, white to light grey orthoquartzite, phyllite, slate and argillite.
A felsic intrusion intrudes the Vampire Formation rocks along the northwest side of the South block. The intrusion trends southeast and extends off of the block where it appears to have been truncated by an inferred fault. A small mafic intrusion (mid-Cretaceous?) intrudes the felsic intrusion in the vicinity of the Ricardo showing. A larger felsic intrusion lies at the southwest end of the block. It trends southeast off the property and appears to have been sliced into several elongated portions by a series of southeast trending offsetting faults which can be observed on publicly released government funded, airborne magnetics data. Minor semi-massive disseminated sulphide float boulders were observed in the southeast corner of the South block and galena associated with a ~ 20 mm quartz vein located close to a fault/shear zone was noted in the Red Bluffs area of the block.
The original Ricardo showing (~ 530940 E, 6865650 N) is reported to consist of a ferricrete spring gossan that occurs in a small stream that cuts across the Nahanni Range road near the southeast corner of Glen claim #40. Based on current mapping the areas appears to be underlain by a small mafic intrusion that intrudes an older (?) felsic intrusion. Colpron’s regional geological compilation displays an age of 97.2 +/- 0.5 million years for the intrusion. It appears Canada Tungsten Mining and subsequent owners examined and assayed the showing but it appears no mineralization was detected.
The occurrence location marks the Dull Spur zone, also called the Hidden Valley zone in Commander Resource’s news releases. The Dull Spur zone, the name used in Stratabound Minerals’ 43-101 technical report, marks a circular area approximately 1 km in diameter that hosts 5 anomalous gold soil samples ranging from 13 ppb to 131 ppb gold. Heavy metal concentrate sampling of silts draining from this area returned 8 grains of gold, the highest number found to date. The anomalous zone also hosts 5 anomalous silver samples ranging up to 0.55 ppm silver. No in situ mineralization has been found to date and the anomalous values correlate to northwest-trending faults. The occurrence location marks the site of the highest gold result (131 ppb gold).
During the Oct/2017 due diligence site visit, geologists employed by Stratabound Minerals discovered the Green Dragon showing (~ UTM 531945 E, 6867740 N). The showing lies about 50 m south of the northern boundary of the South Block and approximately 1.4 km south along strike of the Golden Culvert Main showing. The showing was found by prospecting eastward from the soil anomaly found by Commander Resources. The showing consists of a 2 to 3 m wide quartz-carbonate vein containing minor disseminated chalcopyrite that is covered by green malachite staining. The vein has been traced on surface for a distance of about 20 m in a northwesterly direction. Chip and grab rock samples returned assay values absent in gold but did carry values up to 6 575 ppm copper and 13 805 ppb silver. Stratabound Mineral geologists noted other areas with copper staining on the South block.
Stratabound Minerals has not yet carried out any significant exploration on the South block.
Location Map
Last Updated: Apr 16, 2018
Work History
Year | Work Type | Comment |
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2017 | Geochemistry: Rock | Discovered and sampled Green Dragon showing during due diligence visit. |
2012 | Geochemistry: Soil | Follow-up soil and silt sampling in northwest corner of South Block. |
2011 | Geochemistry: Rock | Reconnaissance scale, also silt and soil sampling. |
2011 | Other: Prospecting | Prospected South Block. |
2009 | Geochemistry: Rock | Reconnaissance scale. |
2009 | Geochemistry: Silt | Reconnaissance scale. |
2009 | Geochemistry: Soil | Reconnaissance scale. |
1981 | Other: Prospecting | Prospected by E. Brodhagen. |
1980 | Other: Prospecting | Prospected by A. Black. |
1961 | Other: Prospecting | Appears Canada Tungsten Mining prospected and sampled Ricardo showing. |
Regional Geology - Terrane
Group: Ancestral North America
Affinity: W Laurentia
Name: North America - basinal strata
Realm: Laurentia
Regional Geology - Bedrock
Supergroup:
Group/Suite:
Formation: Vampire
Member:
Terrane: Laurentia
Period Max: Ediacaran
Age Max: 550 MA
Period Min: Cambrian
Age Min: 521 MA
Rock Major: phyllite/slate/argillite/siltstone/sandstone
Rock Minor: quartzite
Reference: Gordey (1992) - GSC Map 1762A
Geological Unit (1M): uPCV
Geological Unit (250K): uPCV1
Assessment Reports that overlap occurrence
Report Number | Year | Title | Worktypes | Holes Drilled | Meters Drilled |
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096375 | 2012 | Assessment Report Glenmorangie Property | Rock - Geochemistry, Silt - Geochemistry, Soil - Geochemistry | ||
095747 | 2011 | Assessment Report for the Glenmorangie Exploration Project Geochemical Survey and Prospect Mapping | Rock - Geochemistry, Silt - Geochemistry, Soil - Geochemistry, Bedrock Mapping - Geology |
Related References
Number | Title | Page(s) | Document Type |
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YEG2016_9 | Progress report on geological mapping in the upper Hyland River region of southeastern Yukon (parts of NTS 105H/08,09,10,15,16 and 105I/02) | p. 163-180. | Annual Report Paper |
YEG2011_OV | Yukon Exploration and Geology Overview 2011 | p. 30, 64. | Annual Report |
2016-36 | Bedrock geology of the upper Hyland River area, NTS 105H/8, 9, 10, 15, 16 and 105I/2, southeast Yukon | Open File (Geological - Bedrock) | |
2016-37 | Yukon Plutonic Suites | Open File (Geological - Bedrock) | |
YEG2012_OV | Yukon Exploration and Geology Overview 2012 | p. 42, 61. | Annual Report |
Citations |
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COMMANDER RESOURCES LTD, Mar/2012. Assessment Report #095747 by S. Potts. |
COMMANDER RESOURCES LTD, May/2013. Assessment Report #096375 by S. Potts and J. McKenzie. |
COMMANDER RESOURCES LTD, News Release. 10 Feb/2012, 26 Jun/2012, 17 Oct/2012. |
LEE, G. Feb/2010. Little Hyland Regional Project, by S. Casselman and J. Halle. 2009 YMIP (YEIP-2009-046) Focused Regional Program. (Available in the EMR Library). |
LEE, G. Jan/2012. Assessment Report #095451 by G. Lee. |
LEE, G. Jan/2012. 2011 Exploration Program on the Little Hyland Project by G. Lee. 2011 YMIP (YEIP-2011-019). Same as Assessment Report #095451. (Available in the EMR Library). |
STRATABOUND MINERALS CORP, Feb/2018. Technical Report on the Golden Culvert and Little Hyland Properties, Watson Lake District, Yukon Territory, Canada by M. Huber. |
STRATABOUND MINERALS CORP, News Release, 23 Oct/2017, 7 Nov/2017, 24 Nov/2017, 18 Dec/2017, 12 Feb/2018. |
STRATABOUND MINERALS CORP, Web Site: www.stratabound.ca. |