General Information
Secondary Commodities: gold
Deposit Type(s): Unknown
Location(s): 63.216390 N, -139.135560 W
NTS Mapsheet(s): 115O03
Location Comments: .5 Kilometres
Hand Samples Available at YGS: No
Capsule
Work History
Staked as Strike cl 1-100 (YC98701) and cl 101-114 (YC99475) in Jun/2009 by B. Naughty. Naughty immediately optioned Strike cl 17-20 (YC98717), cl 37-40 (YC98737), cl 56-60 (C98756), cl 75-80 (YC98775) and cl 95-100 (YC795) to First Lithium Resources Inc. In Oct/2009 First Lithium flew an airborne magnetic and radiometric geophysical survey over the claims.
After Naughty signed his agreement with First Lithium, Network Exploration Ltd optioned Strike cl 1-6 (YC98701), cl 21-26 (YC98721), cl 41-45 (YC98741), cl 61-64 (YC98761) and cl 81-84 (YC98781). In Sep/2009 Network Exploration carried out a geological mapping and soil sampling program followed by an airborne magnetic and radiometric geophysical survey in Nov/2009.
Towards the end of Jun/2009 Newcastle Minerals Ltd optioned Strike cl 11-16 (YC98711), cl 31-36 (YC98731), cl 51- 55 (YC98751), cl 71-74 (YC98771) and cl 91-94 (98791) from Naughty. The company carried out an airborne magnetic and radiometric geophysical survey over the claims in Nov/2009.
In Jul/2009 Alix Resources Corp and Cloudbreak Resources Ltd jointly optioned Strike cl 7-10 (YC98707), cl 27-30 (YC98727), cl 46-50 (YC98746), cl 65-70 (YC98765) and cl 85-90 (YC98785) from Naughty. The companies immediately carried out a preliminary geological mapping, prospecting and soil sampling program on the claims. A follow-up detailed soil sampling program was completed in Sep/2009 and the companies carried out an airborne magnetic and radiometric geophysical survey over the claims in Nov/2009. In Jan/2010 Cloudbreak Resources bought out Alix Resources’ 50% interest in the Strike and other jointly owned claims.
In Mar/2010 Atocha Resources Inc optioned Strike cl 101-114 (YC99475) from Naughty. The company carried out a geological mapping and soil sampling program in Jun/2010.
In Jun/2010 First Lithium Resources purchased Network Exploration’s Strike claims which are located south of and contiguous to First Lithium’s Strike claims. In Aug/2010 First Lithium completed a soil sampling program on both groups of claims.
In Nov/2010 Cloudbreak Resources optioned a 70% interest in its Strike claims and other neighbouring claim groups to AccelRate Power Systems Inc. Cloudbreak changed its name to Petro One Energy Corp in Dec/2010 to better reflect the company’s primary business focus on oil exploration. AccelRate Power Systems shareholders voted on June 15, 2011 to change the company's primary business focus to mining exploration and to change the company's name to Goldstrike Resources Ltd.
Capsule Geology
The geology of the Stewart River Area was remapped by J. Ryan and S. Gordey (2004) of the Geological Survey of Canada beginning in 2000 as a component of the Ancient Pacific Margin NATMAP Project. The NATMAP Project is an interagency project initiated by the Geological Survey of Canada, Yukon Geology Program (now Yukon Geological Survey) and British Columbia Geological Survey Branch to understand the composition, relationships and metallogenic of poorly understood pericratonic terranes lying between the ancestral North American margin and those known with more certainty to be tectonically accreted. The Stewart River component focuses on the Yukon-Tanana terrane, comprising complexly deformed mostly (?) Paleozoic meta-igneous and metasedimentary rocks. In 2005 S. Gordey and J. Ryan released a geological compilation map for the Stewart River area. The map units generally remained the same as the 2004 geology map but age dates were changed to reflect new dates obtained through geochronology data.
J. Ryan reported that the Stewart River area is underlain by twice-transposed, amphibolite-facies gneiss and schist of mostly (?) Paleozoic age. These are intruded by younger plutonic rocks (Jurassic, Cretaceous and Eocene) and overlain by upper Cretaceous volcanic rocks. Metasiliclastic rocks are widespread and dominated by psammite and quartzite, with lesser pelite and rare conglomerate. Preliminary detrital zircon geochronology and geochronology for plutonic rocks constrain the siliclastic rocks to the Middle Paleozoic. Amphibolite interdigitates with and stratigraphically overlies the siliclastic rocks. Marble horizons ((?) reefs) occurs within the amphibolite and siliclastic rocks. Orthogneissic rocks with diorite, tonalite and granodiorite protoliths intrude both the siliclastic and amphibole assemblages; it is interpreted as a subvolcanic intrusive complex.
Ignoring individual claim ownership, J. Ryan’s compilation geology map shows that the Strike claims are predominantly underlain by Devonian to Mississippian age massive undivided grey gneiss and amphibolite rocks (unit DMta). A sliver of Devonian to Mississippian quartz mica schist rocks (unit DMps) occurs along the eastern boundary of the claim block . A large Early Jurassic granitic intrusion (EJgd) straddles both sides of the Stewart River and intrudes both units along the north end of the claim block.
All of the exploration companies which optioned claims from B. Naughty carried out soil sampling programs on their individual claim blocks. What little information that has been released suggests that the companies identified areas of elevated gold response (> 10 to 15 ppb gold) but no anomalies of the same scale as reported on the neighbouring White Gold property (Minfile Occurrences #115O 11, 12, 13, 165 and 166).
Although all of the companies used the same geophysical company, Precision GeoSurveys Inc, most have not publicly released detailed results. As part of the process in purchasing Cloudbreak Resources interests in the area, AccelRate Power Systems completed a publicly available Technical Report (available on SEDAR) detailing the results of Cloudbreak’s airborne geophysical and soil sampling surveys. The geological component of the geophysical report appears to verify J. Ryan’s geological compilation of the area. The structural interpretation arrived from the magnetic data outlines a north-westerly trending lineament intersecting a north-easterly trending fault on the east side of AccelRate - Cloudbreak Resources’ claim block. This occurrence marks the approximate location of this intersection. Soil sampling results overlaid on the magnetic geophysical results display a few elevated gold responses near the intersection however sampling in this area was conducted at reconnaissance scale, with lines spaced 300 m apart and samples collected on 50 m centres, thus possibly limiting any gold response.
First Lithium Resources’ web site hosts a map displaying the results of the airborne geophysical survey conducted on their portion of the Strike claim block. Although general in detail, the map which displays the interpretation of the total magnetics results outlines a potential north-easterly trending fault that crosses the centre of their claim block and extends south onto the claims First Lithium purchased from Newcastle Minerals Ltd. These results appear to mimic those observed on Cloudbreak – AccelRate Power Systems claims and suggest that faults in the area possess a common north-easterly trend.
References
ACCELRATE POWER SYSTEMS INC, Apr/2011. Notice of Meeting and Information Circular, Special General Meeting of Shareholders to be held June 15, 2011, Change of Business Transaction. (Available on SEDAR).
ACCELRATE POWER SYSTEMS INC, Dec/2010, Technical Report Au, Lucky and strike claims, Yukon Territory. Prepared for AccelRate Power Systems Inc by Aurora Geosciences Ltd. Authored by G. Vivian, D. White and J. Robinson. (Available on SEDAR).
ACCELRATE POWER SYSTEMS INC, News Release. 24 Nov/2010, 14 Dec/2010.
ALIX RESOURCES CORP, News Release. 7 Jul/2009, 29 Jul/2009, 6 Aug/2009, 22 Sep/2009, 9 Nov/2009, 12 Jan/2010.
ATOCHA RESOURCES INC, News Release. 25 Mar/2010, 29 Jun/2010, 23 Aug/2010.
ATOCHA RESOURCES INC, Jun/2011. Web Site: www.atocharesources.com.
CLOUDBREAK RESOURCES LTD, News Release, 7 Jul/2009, 29 Jul/2009, 22 Sep/2009, 9 Nov/2009, 12 Jan/2010, 25 Feb/2010, 18 Oct/2010, 17 Nov/2010, 14 Dec/2010.
FIRST LITHIUM RESOURCES INC, News Release. 17 Jun/2009, 14 Jul/2009, 29 Oct/2009, 25 Jun/2010, 20 Aug/2010, 27 Oct/2010.
FIRST LITHIUM RESOURCES INC, Jun/2011. Web Site: www.firstlithiumresources.com.
GOLDSTRIKE RESOURCES LTD, News Release. 17 Jun/2011, 21 Jun/2011.
GOLDSTRIKE RESOURCES LTD, Jun/2011. Web Site: www.goldstrikeresources.com.
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.
NEWCASTLE MINERALS LTD, May/2010. Assessment Report #095353 by H.J. Keyser.
NEWCASTLE MINERALS LTD, News Release. 24 Jun/2009, 16 Nov/2009, 25 Jun/2010.
NETWORK EXPLORATION LTD, Sep/2010. Assessment Report #095332 by H.J. Keyser.
PETRO ONE ENERGY CORP, Jun/2011. Web Site: www.PetroOneEnergy.com
RYAN, J.J. AND GORDEY, S.P., 2002: Bedrock geology of Yukon-Tanana terrane in southern Stewart River map area, Yukon Territory; Geological Survey of Canada, Current Research 2002-A1, 11 p.
Ryan, J.J. ET AL., 2003: Update on bedrock geological mapping of the Yukon-Tanana terrane, southern Stewart River map area, Yukon Territory; Geological Survey of Canada, Current Research 2003-A9, 7 p.
Ryan, J.J. AND GORDEY, S.P., 2004; Geology Stewart River Area (Parts of 115N/1, 2, 7,8 and 115O/2- 12), Yukon Territory; Geological Survey of Canada, Open file 4641, scale 1:100 000.
SHIVES, R.B.K., ET. AL. (2002): Airborne multisensor geophysical survey, Stewart River area, Yukon Territory, Phase 1 and 2 (parts of 115N and 116B); Geological Survey of Canada, Open file 4311. (also Yukon Exploration and Geological Services Division, Open File 2002-17D).
SRK CONSULTING (CANADA) INC. Mar/2010. White Gold Property, Dawson Range, Yukon, Canada. By L Weirshauser, M Nowark and W. Barnett. (Project Number 2CU003.000).
YUKON EXPLORATION & GEOLOGY 2009, p. 28, 2010, p. 31, 60.
Staked as Strike cl 1-100 (YC98701) and cl 101-114 (YC99475) in Jun/2009 by B. Naughty. Naughty immediately optioned Strike cl 17-20 (YC98717), cl 37-40 (YC98737), cl 56-60 (C98756), cl 75-80 (YC98775) and cl 95-100 (YC795) to First Lithium Resources Inc. In Oct/2009 First Lithium flew an airborne magnetic and radiometric geophysical survey over the claims.
After Naughty signed his agreement with First Lithium, Network Exploration Ltd optioned Strike cl 1-6 (YC98701), cl 21-26 (YC98721), cl 41-45 (YC98741), cl 61-64 (YC98761) and cl 81-84 (YC98781). In Sep/2009 Network Exploration carried out a geological mapping and soil sampling program followed by an airborne magnetic and radiometric geophysical survey in Nov/2009.
Towards the end of Jun/2009 Newcastle Minerals Ltd optioned Strike cl 11-16 (YC98711), cl 31-36 (YC98731), cl 51- 55 (YC98751), cl 71-74 (YC98771) and cl 91-94 (98791) from Naughty. The company carried out an airborne magnetic and radiometric geophysical survey over the claims in Nov/2009.
In Jul/2009 Alix Resources Corp and Cloudbreak Resources Ltd jointly optioned Strike cl 7-10 (YC98707), cl 27-30 (YC98727), cl 46-50 (YC98746), cl 65-70 (YC98765) and cl 85-90 (YC98785) from Naughty. The companies immediately carried out a preliminary geological mapping, prospecting and soil sampling program on the claims. A follow-up detailed soil sampling program was completed in Sep/2009 and the companies carried out an airborne magnetic and radiometric geophysical survey over the claims in Nov/2009. In Jan/2010 Cloudbreak Resources bought out Alix Resources’ 50% interest in the Strike and other jointly owned claims.
In Mar/2010 Atocha Resources Inc optioned Strike cl 101-114 (YC99475) from Naughty. The company carried out a geological mapping and soil sampling program in Jun/2010.
In Jun/2010 First Lithium Resources purchased Network Exploration’s Strike claims which are located south of and contiguous to First Lithium’s Strike claims. In Aug/2010 First Lithium completed a soil sampling program on both groups of claims.
In Nov/2010 Cloudbreak Resources optioned a 70% interest in its Strike claims and other neighbouring claim groups to AccelRate Power Systems Inc. Cloudbreak changed its name to Petro One Energy Corp in Dec/2010 to better reflect the company’s primary business focus on oil exploration. AccelRate Power Systems shareholders voted on June 15, 2011 to change the company's primary business focus to mining exploration and to change the company's name to Goldstrike Resources Ltd.
Capsule Geology
The geology of the Stewart River Area was remapped by J. Ryan and S. Gordey (2004) of the Geological Survey of Canada beginning in 2000 as a component of the Ancient Pacific Margin NATMAP Project. The NATMAP Project is an interagency project initiated by the Geological Survey of Canada, Yukon Geology Program (now Yukon Geological Survey) and British Columbia Geological Survey Branch to understand the composition, relationships and metallogenic of poorly understood pericratonic terranes lying between the ancestral North American margin and those known with more certainty to be tectonically accreted. The Stewart River component focuses on the Yukon-Tanana terrane, comprising complexly deformed mostly (?) Paleozoic meta-igneous and metasedimentary rocks. In 2005 S. Gordey and J. Ryan released a geological compilation map for the Stewart River area. The map units generally remained the same as the 2004 geology map but age dates were changed to reflect new dates obtained through geochronology data.
J. Ryan reported that the Stewart River area is underlain by twice-transposed, amphibolite-facies gneiss and schist of mostly (?) Paleozoic age. These are intruded by younger plutonic rocks (Jurassic, Cretaceous and Eocene) and overlain by upper Cretaceous volcanic rocks. Metasiliclastic rocks are widespread and dominated by psammite and quartzite, with lesser pelite and rare conglomerate. Preliminary detrital zircon geochronology and geochronology for plutonic rocks constrain the siliclastic rocks to the Middle Paleozoic. Amphibolite interdigitates with and stratigraphically overlies the siliclastic rocks. Marble horizons ((?) reefs) occurs within the amphibolite and siliclastic rocks. Orthogneissic rocks with diorite, tonalite and granodiorite protoliths intrude both the siliclastic and amphibole assemblages; it is interpreted as a subvolcanic intrusive complex.
Ignoring individual claim ownership, J. Ryan’s compilation geology map shows that the Strike claims are predominantly underlain by Devonian to Mississippian age massive undivided grey gneiss and amphibolite rocks (unit DMta). A sliver of Devonian to Mississippian quartz mica schist rocks (unit DMps) occurs along the eastern boundary of the claim block . A large Early Jurassic granitic intrusion (EJgd) straddles both sides of the Stewart River and intrudes both units along the north end of the claim block.
All of the exploration companies which optioned claims from B. Naughty carried out soil sampling programs on their individual claim blocks. What little information that has been released suggests that the companies identified areas of elevated gold response (> 10 to 15 ppb gold) but no anomalies of the same scale as reported on the neighbouring White Gold property (Minfile Occurrences #115O 11, 12, 13, 165 and 166).
Although all of the companies used the same geophysical company, Precision GeoSurveys Inc, most have not publicly released detailed results. As part of the process in purchasing Cloudbreak Resources interests in the area, AccelRate Power Systems completed a publicly available Technical Report (available on SEDAR) detailing the results of Cloudbreak’s airborne geophysical and soil sampling surveys. The geological component of the geophysical report appears to verify J. Ryan’s geological compilation of the area. The structural interpretation arrived from the magnetic data outlines a north-westerly trending lineament intersecting a north-easterly trending fault on the east side of AccelRate - Cloudbreak Resources’ claim block. This occurrence marks the approximate location of this intersection. Soil sampling results overlaid on the magnetic geophysical results display a few elevated gold responses near the intersection however sampling in this area was conducted at reconnaissance scale, with lines spaced 300 m apart and samples collected on 50 m centres, thus possibly limiting any gold response.
First Lithium Resources’ web site hosts a map displaying the results of the airborne geophysical survey conducted on their portion of the Strike claim block. Although general in detail, the map which displays the interpretation of the total magnetics results outlines a potential north-easterly trending fault that crosses the centre of their claim block and extends south onto the claims First Lithium purchased from Newcastle Minerals Ltd. These results appear to mimic those observed on Cloudbreak – AccelRate Power Systems claims and suggest that faults in the area possess a common north-easterly trend.
References
ACCELRATE POWER SYSTEMS INC, Apr/2011. Notice of Meeting and Information Circular, Special General Meeting of Shareholders to be held June 15, 2011, Change of Business Transaction. (Available on SEDAR).
ACCELRATE POWER SYSTEMS INC, Dec/2010, Technical Report Au, Lucky and strike claims, Yukon Territory. Prepared for AccelRate Power Systems Inc by Aurora Geosciences Ltd. Authored by G. Vivian, D. White and J. Robinson. (Available on SEDAR).
ACCELRATE POWER SYSTEMS INC, News Release. 24 Nov/2010, 14 Dec/2010.
ALIX RESOURCES CORP, News Release. 7 Jul/2009, 29 Jul/2009, 6 Aug/2009, 22 Sep/2009, 9 Nov/2009, 12 Jan/2010.
ATOCHA RESOURCES INC, News Release. 25 Mar/2010, 29 Jun/2010, 23 Aug/2010.
ATOCHA RESOURCES INC, Jun/2011. Web Site: www.atocharesources.com.
CLOUDBREAK RESOURCES LTD, News Release, 7 Jul/2009, 29 Jul/2009, 22 Sep/2009, 9 Nov/2009, 12 Jan/2010, 25 Feb/2010, 18 Oct/2010, 17 Nov/2010, 14 Dec/2010.
FIRST LITHIUM RESOURCES INC, News Release. 17 Jun/2009, 14 Jul/2009, 29 Oct/2009, 25 Jun/2010, 20 Aug/2010, 27 Oct/2010.
FIRST LITHIUM RESOURCES INC, Jun/2011. Web Site: www.firstlithiumresources.com.
GOLDSTRIKE RESOURCES LTD, News Release. 17 Jun/2011, 21 Jun/2011.
GOLDSTRIKE RESOURCES LTD, Jun/2011. Web Site: www.goldstrikeresources.com.
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.
NEWCASTLE MINERALS LTD, May/2010. Assessment Report #095353 by H.J. Keyser.
NEWCASTLE MINERALS LTD, News Release. 24 Jun/2009, 16 Nov/2009, 25 Jun/2010.
NETWORK EXPLORATION LTD, Sep/2010. Assessment Report #095332 by H.J. Keyser.
PETRO ONE ENERGY CORP, Jun/2011. Web Site: www.PetroOneEnergy.com
RYAN, J.J. AND GORDEY, S.P., 2002: Bedrock geology of Yukon-Tanana terrane in southern Stewart River map area, Yukon Territory; Geological Survey of Canada, Current Research 2002-A1, 11 p.
Ryan, J.J. ET AL., 2003: Update on bedrock geological mapping of the Yukon-Tanana terrane, southern Stewart River map area, Yukon Territory; Geological Survey of Canada, Current Research 2003-A9, 7 p.
Ryan, J.J. AND GORDEY, S.P., 2004; Geology Stewart River Area (Parts of 115N/1, 2, 7,8 and 115O/2- 12), Yukon Territory; Geological Survey of Canada, Open file 4641, scale 1:100 000.
SHIVES, R.B.K., ET. AL. (2002): Airborne multisensor geophysical survey, Stewart River area, Yukon Territory, Phase 1 and 2 (parts of 115N and 116B); Geological Survey of Canada, Open file 4311. (also Yukon Exploration and Geological Services Division, Open File 2002-17D).
SRK CONSULTING (CANADA) INC. Mar/2010. White Gold Property, Dawson Range, Yukon, Canada. By L Weirshauser, M Nowark and W. Barnett. (Project Number 2CU003.000).
YUKON EXPLORATION & GEOLOGY 2009, p. 28, 2010, p. 31, 60.
Location Map
Last Updated: Sep 5, 2018
Work History
| Year | Work Type | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Geochemistry: Soil | Follow-up work. |
| 2009 | Airborne Geophysics: Radiometric | Also magnetic survey. |
| 2009 | Geochemistry: Soil | Grid and reconnaissance based on different parts of claim block. |
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: tonalite/interm. to mafic orthogneiss
Rock Minor:
Reference: Gordey & Ryan (2005) - GSC OF 4970
Geological Unit (1M): MSR
Geological Unit (250K): MgSR
Assessment Reports that overlap occurrence
| Report Number | Year | Title | Worktypes | Holes Drilled | Meters Drilled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 097245 | 2018 | 2018 Diamond Drilling, Mechanical Trenching, and IP Survey on the Lucky Strike Property | Diamond - Drilling, Downhole Survey - Ground Geophysics, IP - Ground Geophysics, Mechanical - Trenching | 11 | 1359.71 |
| 097122 | 2017 | Assessment Report, Lucky Strike Property | Diamond - Drilling, LIDAR - Remote Sensing | 9 | 1032.80 |
| 095521 | 2010 | Technical Report AU, BRC, LUCKY, and STRIKE Claims | Soil - Geochemistry, Data Compilation - Pre-existing Data | ||
| 095524 | 2009 | Report on the 2009 Airborne Geophysical Survey on the Strike Property | Gamma-Ray Spectrometry - Airborne Geophysics, Magnetic - Airborne Geophysics |
