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Occurrence Details


Occurrence Number
115J 061
Occurrence Name
Ballarat
Occurrence Type
Hard-rock
Status
Anomaly


General Information

Secondary Commodities: silver, gold, lead
Aliases: Hazel, Touleary
Deposit Type(s): Plutonic Related Au
Location(s): 62.999440 N, -139.103330 W
NTS Mapsheet(s): 115J14
Location Comments: .5 Kilometres
Hand Samples Available at YGS: No

Capsule

WORK HISTORY

Originally staked as Hazel claim (8398) near the headwaters of Touleary Creek in Sep/36.

*This occurrence was moved 2.25 km northeast in Aug/2011 to mirror current exploration activity.

Staked as Near cl 1-30 (YB31463) in Jul/90 by Sparkling Minerals Incorporated which staked Far cl 1-12 (YB31187) to the north at the same time. The company carried out prospecting, geological mapping and geochemical sampling in 1991 and trenching in 1993 (no report). These claims formed part of a larger block of claims that also encompassed Minfile Occurrence #115O 014, located km to the north.

Restaked as Kit cl 3-14 (YC07107) in May/98 by F. Anderson who carried out prospecting and rock and soil sampling in the summer of 1998 and a ground magnetic survey and further rock and soil sampling in 2003.

In Sep/2008 ATAC Resources Ltd staked TL cl 1-109 (YC76097) west of F. Anderson’s Kit claims. In Apr/2009 ATAC Resources staked TL cl 110-183 (YC93602) north and east of the Kit claims and Underworld Resource’s (now Kinross Gold Corp) neighboring Black Fox claims (Minfile Occurrence #115O 169). ATAC named the combined claim group the Touleary property. In Jun/2009 ATAC optioned a 50% interest in the property to Arcus Development Group Inc in return for cash, shares and certain work commitments (see Minfile Occurrence #1150 176 for Touleary property report).

In Jun/2009 F. Anderson optioned the Kit claims to Hinterland Metals Inc for cash, shares and certain work commitments. Later in the month and as part of this agreement Hinterland staked Tik cl 1-50 (YC95394) and cl 51-82 (YC95302) east and south of this occurrence. In 2009 Hinterland carried out soil sampling and airborne geophysical surveys over their claim holdings.

In 2010 Hinterland Metals collected deep auger-type soil samples and dug 4 trenches on the northwest portion of their claim holdings. In Sep/2010 the company staked Ba cl 1-104 (YD72511), cl 110-111 (YD72801) and cl 189-226 (YD72699) on the northeast side of their claim block.

On Jan 20, 2011 Hinterland Metals announced that they intended to spin-out their Yukon gold properties (including the Ballarat Creek claims) into a new company , Stakeholder Gold Corp. Following approval of the company’s shareholders the spin-out was completed in Jun/2011.

GEOLOGY

The occurrence is located northwest of the headwaters of Ballarat Creek and due east of the headwaters of Kirkman Creek. The area lies just north of the southern limits of detailed geological mapping carried out in the early 2000's by Gordey and Ryan (2005) of the Geological Survey of Canada. In addition Gordey and Makepeace also of the Geological Survey of Canada released a geological compilation of the Yukon in 2003 which covered this area. Based on the work of both mapping projects it appears the area is underlain by a series of thrust slices comprised of Devonian to Mississippian, quartzite, quartz-mica schist and amphibolite of the Yukon Tanana Terrane. These slices have been intruded by Permian age K-feldspar rich granitic orthogneiss (?). The thrust slices were uplifted through the brittle-ductile transition in the Jurassic and unconformably overlain by locally derived sedimentary and volcanic rocks in the Late Cretaceous (MacKenzie et al. 2008 ). F. Anderson a geologist with claim holdings in the area also mapped small pockets of other intrusive rocks of unknown age in the area, including pegmatite and apilite dikes and sills and gabbro.

No information can be found regarding the original Hazel claim/occurrence. Modern exploration has been focused on uncovering massive white, yellow stained quartz veins that locally contain cubic galena that intrude the area, apparently along planes of weakness. The contact between the veins and the country rock are sharp and occasionally show selvages of chlorite, epidote and hematite. No alteration of the country rock has been noted. Samples of this material located in float in 1990 assayed 31.7 g/t gold, 53 g/t silver and 1.5% lead.

Soil sampling in 1990 and 1998 outlined several areas of anomalous gold response on the Kit claims. Peak values up to 811 ppb gold were obtained from analysis of samples collected in 1990, but analysis of a smaller size fraction (150 versus 80 mesh) of the 1998 samples returned values that were in most cases significantly lower.
The 2003 magnetic geophysical survey on the Kit claims was too small to provide detailed analysis however general features were observable. Two quartz veins hosted by quartzofeldspathic gneiss were trenched and limited soil and rock sampling was carried out over the claims but no results were reported.

The discovery of the Golden Saddle deposit (Minfile Occurrence #115O 165) in 2008 by Underworld Resources (now Kinross Gold Corp - located approximately approximately 15 km to the northwest) sparked an extensive staking rush and a review of previous exploration in the area. Although no definitive deposit type has been assigned to the Golden Saddle deposit exploration in the region has been focus on locating intrusive related gold deposits.

Soil sampling by Hinterland in 2009 outlined two parallel, northeast-trending, linear gold anomalies in the northwestern corner of the property (across the Kit claims). Each anomaly is roughly 2 km long. The northern anomaly is better defined, more continuous and averages 100 to 150 m wide. The second anomaly, located roughly 200 m southeast of the first, is less definite, irregular and generally less tham 50 m wide. The anomalous gold area corresponds to a magnetic low that occurs on the northwestern margin of a circular magnetic high that covers most of the Ballarat property. Four quartz veins were located in the anomalous gold area.

Hinterland Resources 2010 soil sampling program employed deep auger sampling, the same method employed by S. Ryan, the person credited with the discovery of the White Gold deposit and subsequent staking rush. The program resulted better definition of the two previously discovered soil anomalies. Each anomaly appears to trend east-west for a minimum distance of 1000 m. The southern anomaly is now the best defined with maximum values up to 796 ppb gold and appears to overlie F. Anderson’s 1991 811 ppb gold anomaly. The 2010 trenches were dug before the soil sample results were obtained and did not test the gold in soil anomlies. The best result from trenching was 1.3 g/t gold obtained at a point located between the two soil anomalies.

The new location of the Ballarat occurrence (this occurrence) marks the approximate location of the 796 ppb gold value obtained from the 2010 soil sampling program. It is also approximately 100 m west of the location where in 1990 F. Anderson collected a sample of massive white, yellow stained quartz vein float that returned 31.7 g/t gold, 53 g/t silver and 1.5% lead.

REFERENCES

ANDERSON, F., Jul/99. Assessment Report #093999 by F. Anderson.

GORDEY, S.P. AND MAKEPEACE, A.J. 2003: Yukon Digital Geology, version 2.0, S.P. Gordey and A.J. Makepeace (comp); Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 1749 and Yukon Geological Survey, Open File 2003-9 (D).

GORDEY, S.P. AND RYAN, J.J. 2005. Geology, Stewart River Area (115N, 115 O and part of 115J), Yukon Territory; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 4970, scale 1:250 000.

HINTERLAND METALS INC, Apr/2010. Assessment Report #095309 by M. Fekete.

HINTERLAND METALS INC, News Release. 23 Jun/2009, 15 Jul/2009, 5 Oct/2009, 28 May/2010, 5 Oct/2010, 28 Oct/2010, 20 Jan/2011, 20 Jun/2011.

HINTERLAND METALS INC, Nov/2009. Web Site. www.hinterlandmetals.com.

MACKENZIE, D., CRAW, D. AND MORTENSEN J.K., 2008. Thrust slices and associated deformation in the Klondike goldfields, Yukon. In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 2007, D.S. Emond, L.R. Blackburn, R.P. Hill and L.H. Weston (eds.), Yukon Geological Survey, p. 199-213.

PROSPEX GEOLOGICAL ENTERPRISES, Aug/2003. Assessment Report #094423 by F. Anderson.

SPARKLING MINERALS INCORPORATED, Nov/91. Assessment Report #092982 by F.J. Anderson.

STAKEHOLDER GOLD CORP, Mar/2011. Geological Report on the Ballarat Property, White Gold District, Dawson Mining District, Yukon Territory, by J. G. Davison. (available on SEDAR).

TEMPELMAN-KLUIT, D.J., 1974. Reconnaissance geology of Aishihik Lake, Snag and part of Stewart River map-areas, west-central Yukon. Department of Energy Mines and Resources; Geological Survey of Canada Paper 73-41, 97 p.

YUKON EXPLORATION AND GEOLOGY 2009, p. 27, 54; 2010, p. 28, 32, 58, 61.

 

Location Map

Last Updated: Oct 8, 2019

Work History

Year Work Type Comment
2010 Geochemistry: Soil Deep auger on Kit and Tik claims.
2010 Trenching On Kit claims.
2009 Airborne Geophysics: Magnetic Also radiometric survey, on Tik claims.
2009 Geochemistry: Soil On Tik claims.
2003 Geochemistry: Rock Also soil sampling, no results released.
2003 Ground Geophysics: Magnetics Only three lines collected.
1998 Geochemistry: Rock Also soil sampling.
1993 Trenching: Hand
1991 Geochemistry: Soil
1991 Geology: Bedrock Mapping
1991 Other: Prospecting

Regional Geology - Terrane

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


Regional Geology - Bedrock

Supergroup:
Group/Suite: Finlayson
Formation:
Member:
Terrane: Yukon-Tanana
Period Max: Devonian
Age Max: 365 MA
Period Min: Carboniferous
Age Min: 345.29998779 MA
Rock Major: amphibolite, garnet amphibolite, schist
Rock Minor:
Reference: Ryan et al. (2013) - GSC CGM 116
Geological Unit (1M): DMF
Geological Unit (250K): DMF1

Assessment Reports that overlap occurrence

Report Number Year Title Worktypes Holes Drilled Meters Drilled
097133 2017 Airborne Geophysical Assessment Report: Dighem Aerial Survey Electromagnetic - Airborne Geophysics
096297 2012 Memorandum Report of 2012 Drilling on the Ballarat Property Diamond - Drilling, Diamond - Drilling, Drill Core - Geochemistry, Drill Core - Geochemistry 10 1506
095309 2010 Surface Work Performed from July 3, 2009 to April 27, 2010 on the Ballarat Property Gamma-Ray Spectrometry - Airborne Geophysics, Magnetic - Airborne Geophysics, Rock - Geochemistry, Soil - Geochemistry, Prospecting - Other
096207 2010 High resolution Airborne Geophysical Report on the White and the Black Fox Group Electromagnetic - Airborne Geophysics, Gamma-Ray Spectrometry - Airborne Geophysics
095338 2009 Report on the 2009 Diamond Drill, Geological and Geochemical Work Program on the White Gold, Black Fox, Yellow, JP Ross and Maisy Properties All Weather Road - Development, Surface, Diamond - Drilling, Drill Core - Geochemistry, Rock - Geochemistry, Soil - Geochemistry, Bedrock Mapping - Geology, Detailed Bedrock Mapping - Geology, Metallurgical Tests - Lab Work/Physical Studies, Prospecting - Other, Environmental Assessment/Impact - Studies, Resource Estimate - Studies, Backhoe - Trenching 94 25891.67
095090 2008 Drilling - Geochemical - Geological Report on the BLACK FOX CATH CATHY CCC WHITE and WS Claims Diamond - Drilling, Drill Core - Geochemistry, Rock - Geochemistry, Soil - Geochemistry, Detailed Bedrock Mapping - Geology, Regional Bedrock Mapping - Geology, Backhoe - Trenching, Hand - Trenching 27 3433
094423 2003 2003 Geophysical Report on the Kit 3-14 Claims Rock - Geochemistry, Soil - Geochemistry, Magnetics - Ground Geophysics, Prospecting - Other
093999 1998 Geochemical Report on the Kit 3-14 Claims Silt - Geochemistry, Soil - Geochemistry, Prospecting - Other
092982 1991 Geochemical Report on the FAR 1-22 and NEAR 1-40 Claims Rock - Geochemistry, Soil - Geochemistry, Bedrock Mapping - Geology, Prospecting - Other

Related References

Number Title Page(s) Document Type
ARMC016561 Geochemical map - 115J/14 - Coffee Creek Geochemical Map
ARMC016560 Geology map - 115J/14 - Coffee Creek Geoscience Map (Geological - Bedrock)
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