Work History

The Elephant cl 1-14 (YA86794) were staked in April 1985 by G. Lee and optioned to Noranda Exploration Company Ltd, which staked Elephant cl 15-20 (YA96415) and performed mapping, trenching and geochemical sampling in 1986 and 1987. Noranda performed trenching in 1987.

B. Harris staked the Rag 25-26 cl (YB46562) to the southwest in December 1993. In October 1993, the Elephant claims and Rag cl 25-26 were optioned to La Rock Mining Corp.

Northern Freegold Resources consolidated the claims in 2006 as part of their Golden Revenue property and performed a property wide VTEM and magnetic airborne survey, including the Irene Vein. Northern Freegold carried out hand trenching and rock geochemistry in 2013; and magnetic and VLF-EM ground geophysics, bedrock mapping, mechanical trenching and rock geochemistry in 2014.

Triumph Gold acquired Northern Freegold Resources in 2015 and the property that includes the Irene Vein is now termed the Freegold Mountain Project. In 2018, Triumph Gold carried out diamond drilling of 11 holes (1369 m).

Regional & Property Geology

The occurrence is partly underlain by Yukon-Tanana Terrane (YTT). The rocks of the YTT in this region consist of Early Mississippian metamorphic rocks separated into meta-sedimentary and meta-igneous suites. The meta-sedimentary suite consists of micaceous quartz-feldspar gneiss, schist and quartzite. The meta-igneous package is comprised of biotite-hornblende feldspar gneiss and coarse-grained granodiorite orthogneiss with lesser amphibolite.

The YTT basement rocks are cut by numerous plutonic and volcanic events from the Mesozoic (Murray & Friend, 2018), including:
1. Early Jurassic Long Lake monzonite to syenite plutonic suites;
2. Mid-Cretaceous Mount Nansen Suite andesite to diorite;
3. Mid-Cretaceous Whitehorse granodiorite, quartz monzonite and granite;
4. Late Cretaceous Casino quartz monzonite;
5. Late Cretaceous Prospector Mountain syenite; and,
6. Quartz feldspar and feldspar hornblende porphyry dykes and plugs.

The major structural feature in the area is the Big Creek Fault with steeply-dipping, northwest-trending dextral faults parallel to the more regional Tintina and Denali faults (AR 097175). The Irene Vein is located at a fault contact between metamorphic rocks and mid-Cretaceous granite and coincides with the NW-SE oriented Guder Creek fault (Triumph Gold, News Release, 24 Jan/2019).

Mineralization & Results

Epithermal mineralization at the Irene Vein occurs as sulphide-rich veinlets, veins and breccias containing gold, pyrite, arsenopyrite, stibnite and rare sphalerite in a carbonate (dolomite ± calcite) quartz gangue. Mineralization is primarily controlled by west northwest to northwest trending faults and fractures (Triumph Gold, News Release, 24 Jan/2019).

Sampling of fractures and pyrite stringers from bedrock in 1987 returned 2.2 g/t Au, 5.8 g/t Ag and 2560 ppm As (AR 092113). Trenching in 1987 defined a 6.5 m by 80 m long zone (AR 092113).

Trenching in 2013 by Northern Freegold returned significant intervals: 3.47 g/t Au over 7 m, including 10.9 g/t Au over 1.0 m in TR13-018; 2.24 g/t Au over 7 m, including 3.05 g/t Au over 3 m in TR13-019; 7.11 g/t Au over 3 m, including 11.35 g/t Au over 1 m in TR13-021 (AR 096643). Follow-up trenching in 2014 returned assays of up to 1.53 g/t Au over 5 m in TR14-031; 9.45 g/t Au, 114.5 g/t Ag, 0.79% Cu over 1.00 m (including 19.90 g/t Au, 145.0 g/t Ag, 0.68% Cu over 0.35 m) in TR14-037; and 5.19 g/t Au, 66.8 g/t Ag, 0.29% Cu over 1.00 m(including 9.03 g/t Au, 50.3 g/t Ag, 0.24% Cu over 0.50 m) in TR14-036 (Triumph Gold, MD&A, 25 Apr/2016).

Diamond drilling in 2018 by Triumph Gold encountered numerous significant intervals, including: 20.7 g/t Au over 0.7 m in IR18-01; 1.15 g/t Au over 19 m in IR18-05; 2.38 g/t Au over 6.13 m in IR18-08; and 2.19 g/t Au over 5.65 m in IR18-10 (Triumph Gold, MD&A, 23 Apr/2019).