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Occurrence Details


Occurrence Number
115J 114
Occurrence Name
Beach
Occurrence Type
Hard-rock
Status
Anomaly


General Information

Secondary Commodities: gold
Deposit Type(s): Vein Au-Quartz
Location(s): 62.000540 N, -139.450260 W
NTS Mapsheet(s): 115J03
Hand Samples Available at YGS: No

Capsule

Regionally, the area is underlain by equigranular biotite- and hornblendebearing granitoids and leucocratic aplite dykes of inferred Early Cretaceous age, comprising the Nisling Range batholith. In general, the Nisling Range batholith varies from non-magnetic granitic compositions in the west to magnetic dioritic compositions further east. Porphyritic dykes are locally noted nearby cutting the Nisling Range granitoids; these dykes may be Cretaceous in age, or may correspond with nearby Early Tertiary intrusive ages documented by Murphy (2011).

The Nisling Range batholith intrudes Snowcap and Finlayson assemblage rocks of the Yukon Tanana terrane (YTT). In the area, the Snowcap assemblage is dominated by siliceous meta-clastic rocks (quartz-biotite and quartz-muscovite schists). Subordinate marble and carbonaceous meta-clastic rocks likely correlate with the Finlayson assemblage.

Geological mapping in 2012 outlined gold mineralization in soil coinciding with the southern contact between biotite-hornblende diorite and a bleached breccia unit. Prospecting over an area of approximately 480m x 400m returned anomalous gold values to a high of 0.58 g/t with 8 samples in this area returning an average of 0.34 g/t Au.

Diamond drilling in 2013 has confirmed the presence of a mineralized magmatic-hydrothermal system that is hosted in diorite and porphyry dykes coincident with the contact between the diorite and silicified, hydrothermal breccia. Along this contact, drill holes WLF-13-001 and WLF-13-003 returned gold intercepts of 100.2m @ 0.25 g/t Au (including 6.1m @ 0.8 g/t Au) and 44m @ 0.68g/t Au, respectively. Plagioclase porphyry dykes intersected in both WLF-13-001 and WLF-13-003 resulted in gold values up to 1.1 g/t and 1.9 g/t Au respectively. Anomalous copper and molybdenum mineralization and assay results correspond with gold intersections. Gold mineralization is preferentially associated with pervasively chlorite-altered green diorite and porphyry dykes, in which pyrite, chalcopyrite and molybdenite mineralization is disseminated and hosted by quartz ± chlorite veinlets and stockwork.

(AR 096662), (AR 96330)

Location Map

Last Updated: Oct 29, 2019

Work History

Year Work Type Comment
2013 Drilling: Diamond
2013 Geochemistry: Soil
2012 Geochemistry: Rock
2012 Geochemistry: Soil
2012 Geology: Bedrock Mapping
2012 Ground Geophysics: IP
2012 Ground Geophysics: Magnetics
2011 Geochemistry: Rock
2011 Geochemistry: Soil

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Assessment Reports that overlap occurrence

Report Number Year Title Worktypes Holes Drilled Meters Drilled
096662 2013 Assessment Report on the 2013 Diamond Drilling and Geochemical Sampling on the Wolf Project Diamond - Drilling, Drill Core - Geochemistry, Soil - Geochemistry 8 1623.10
096330 2012 Assessment Report on the 2012 Geochemical Sampling, Geological Mapping and Ground Geophysics on the Wolf Project Soil - Geochemistry, Bedrock Mapping - Geology, IP - Ground Geophysics, Magnetics - Ground Geophysics, Line Cutting - Other
095754 2011 Assessment Report on the 2011 Geochemical Sampling and Prospecting on the Wolf Property Rock - Geochemistry, Silt - Geochemistry, Soil - Geochemistry, Prospecting - Other

Drill Core at YGS Core Library

Number Property Year Drilled Core Size Photos Data
WLF-13-001 Wolf 2013 NTW 36 2
WLF-13-003 Wolf 2013 NTW 34 2

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