Work History

Staked as Jim and Moose cl (79908) in Oct/62 by F. Lutz. Restaked as the Barite cl (89020) in Jan/65 by R. Kirk; as Kirk cl (Y22856) in Apr/68 by C. Pete; as Naza cl (Y29140) in May/69 by N. Zinchuk, who performed a small amount of trenching in 1969, 1971 and 1973; as N cl (Y84149) in Jun/75 by P. Kremar; and as Roman cl 1-16 (YA36877) in Jun/79 by J. Melnychuk. The Roman group was explored with mapping and geochemical sampling in 1979 and 1980 by St Joseph Explorations Ltd under an option. Logan Mines Ltd drilled two holes (123.1 m) and carried out EM geophysical surveying in 1980 as a condition leading to an option on the property. In 1981 Logan Mines carried out soil sampling and magnetometer surveying. Alex Black tied on Brod cl 1-2 (YA57123) on the west side in Oct/80 and carried out geological mapping in 1981.
Melnychuk tied on Man cl 1-24 (YA70060), Rom cl 17-20 (YA70285) and Rom cl 25-44 (YA70169) in May/83 in conjunction with B. Price and P. Christopher and optioned the property briefly to Billiton, which carried out EM, magnetic, IP and gravity surveying in 1984. The claims were transferred to Samarkand Resources Inc in 1986, which carried out geological mapping, sampling, EM and magnetometer surveying in 1987. Harrisburg-Dayton Resource Corp acquired the option in 1988 and Fairlady Energy Inc restaked the occurrence as RM cl 1-47 (YB14647) in Aug/88. J. Lebare tied on Roman cl 9-20 (YB16701) to the north in Nov/89.
In Feb/96 Nu-Lite Industries Ltd staked Lee cl 1-10 (YB77736) and Luck cl 1-10 (YB77746) to the east. KRL Resources Corp restaked the occurrence as Watson cl 1-30 (YB78389) and Liard cl 1-28 (YB78363) in Mar/96 and optioned the Lee and Luck claims from Nu-Lite. KRL then carried out airborne geophyscial surveying over the area later in March and ground geophysical surveying, grid soil sampling, trenching and prospecting later in the year. The company added Steph cl 1-6 (YB84651) on the east side of the claim group in Jul/96; Rapid cl 1-12 (YB89290) on the north side in May/97; Liard cl 29-34 (YB89346) and Rapid cl 29-34 (YB89346) also to the north and Watson cl 31F-32F within the block in Jun/97. KRL drilled 5 holes (748 m) and carried out limited prospecting, geological mapping and soil sampling in 1997.

Capsule Geology

Galena and sphalerite occur in quartz-calcite-barite veins cutting a strongly contorted sequence of Ordovician carbonaceous shale, pyritic chert and phyllite. Several of the veins are conformable with the foliation. Two chip samples across a 4 m thick barite vein averaged 0.9% Pb, 0.3% Zn, 3.1 g/t Ag and 19.7% Ba. Two chip samples across a 30 cm thick quartz vein averaged 14.4% Zn, 0.2% Pb, 0.3% Cu, 9.9 g/t Ag and trace Ba. One hole drilled in 1980 intersected a 1.3 m quartz vein with minor mineralization, while the other cut an unmineralized fracture zone and thin pyritic bands.
Pyritic dacite dykes cut the sediments near the showings and a mineralized barite vein 0.5 to 1.0 m wide on the south bank of the river parallels the edge of a quartz-feldspar porphyry dyke about 1 m wide.
KRL¿s work focused on an area west of the Liard River located between this occurrence and one 2.5 km to the southeast (Minfile Occurrence #105A 005). Soil sampling in 1996 returned a series of anomalous gold values (122 ppb to 1 421 ppb Au) from an area midway between the two occurrences. Subsequent detailed sampling failed to reproduce the anomaly and it was determined that recent alluvial deposits flanking the river were the source of the anomaly. Drilling in 1997 intersected bedded sequences of dolomitic slates, siltstone and argillite with lesser sandstone. Minor base metal enrichment was detected in several lithologies in 3 of the 5 holes and consisted of minor sphalerite and galena mainly within veins and as recrystalized grains in the enclosing rocks.

References

GEORGE CROSS NEWSLETTER, 15 Nov/88; 13 May/96; 13 Jun/96; 17 Sep/96; 20 Nov/96; 27 Feb/97; 15 May/97; 11 Jul/97.