Work History

Quartz-stibnite veins were reportedly discovered in this area as early as 1893, although it was not until around 1906 that the occurrence was staked as Ora, Princess, Lone Star, etc cl by C. Goddell, who carried out trenching and drove a short adit.
Restaked as Grizzly cl 1-4, Dorothy cl 1-8 and Frankie cl 1-8 (73561) in Jun/58 by Prospectors Airways Company Ltd, which carried out minor exploration work.

Restaked as May cl 3-6 (92109) in May/65 by Yukon Antimony Corporation Ltd, which carried out trenching. National Lead Company Ltd held an option on the property between June and Sep/70. In Feb/71, Yukon Antimony was merged into International Mariner Resources Ltd.
Restaked as Carbon cl 1-4 (YA7918) in Aug/76 by Con-Am Resources Ltd, which carried out geological mapping and geochemical sampling in 1977.

In Mar/84 Berglynn Resources Ltd and Skukum Ventures Inc restaked the occurrence within a large block of Pop cl 15-104 (YA81468). The companies carried out grid soil sampling and staked Tech cl 22-40 (YA92145) 2 km contiguously to the northeast in Jun/85; staked MB cl 1-3 (YA94610) 1 km north in May/86; and carried out geophysical surveying (VLF-EM), drilled 11 holes (2,857.2 m) on the occurrence and carried out grid geochemical soil sampling and preliminary geological mapping and rock sampling of the Tech claims in 1987. Skukum Ventures was renamed Skukum Gold Inc in Mar/88. The companies then drilled 4 holes (1,976.3 m) in 1989 and an additional 7 holes (1,540 m) in 1990.

Berglynn changed its name to Arkona Resources Inc in Mar/92 and in 1994 Arkona formed a new joint venture with No. 276 Taurus Ventures Ltd, a private B.C. company, allowing it to increase its interest in the property and various contiguious claims.
Subsequently, in 1995, the property was optioned to Omni Resources Inc and that fall Omni drilled five holes (2,842 m). In 1996 a 630 m ramp was driven to facilitate underground drilling and between Oct/96 and Apr/97 twenty nine holes (6,946 m) were drilled, before the ramp was extended 180 m farther to the east and an additional eleven holes (2,268 m) were drilled in Jun/97. During this period BYG Natural Resources staked Mil cl 1-64 (YB67166) in Jun/96 to surround the exisiting claims to the north and northwest. These claims were later (Oct/2000) transferred to Omni Resources after a claim of lien was filed against BYG in Mar/99.

Omni and Arkona carried out detailed geological mapping, contour soil sampling and prospecting in 1998. By 1999 Omni had earned a 60% interest in the property and purchased Taurus Ventures 10% interest, subsequent to Arkona transferring 100% ownership of the property to Omni on July 23/99.

In Nov/2000 Omni amalgamated with Trumpeter Yukon Gold Inc to form Tagish Lake Gold Corp. Tagish Lake Gold carried out a detailed structural and alteration studies and commissioned a National Instrument 43-101 compliant resource estimate of the deposit in 2002 and completed data compilation and integration to digital format of historic data, relogging and sampling of historical drill core and surface drilling of three holes (974.8 m) at Goddell Gully in 2003.

In Jan/2005, Tagish Lake signed a letter of agreement to acquire Action Minerals Inc's (formerly Arkona) working funded interest (30%) in the claims covering the Goddel Gully deposit. Tagish Lake carried out large diamond drilling programs in 2005 and 2006 focused on bringing the Skukum Creek (Minfile Occurrence #105D 022) deposit into production. In Aug/2007 the company released an updated National Instrument 43-101 compliant resource estimate for the Goddell Gully deposit.

2007 to 2014 not fully summarized yet.

A Technical Report by R.G. Simpson and C.O. Nash stating a resource estimate was filed on September 14, 2012 with an effective date of July 16,2012 and was re-stated in a report by R.G Simpson with a revision date of July 31, 2013. The resource estimate was unchanged.


Capsule Geology

Gold and silver mineralization occurs at Goddell Gully within and to the south of the main strands of the Goddell fault and has been intersected in numerous drill holes and surface exposures over a strike length of at least 500 m. The fault zone, a 35 m wide east-trending zone of black augen cataclasite and brecciated quartz monzonite, forms a prominent gossanous lineament that has been traced for about 4.8 km on surface and cuts an equigranular hornblende-biotite quartz monzonite that has been correlated with the mid-Cretaceous aged Carbon Hill plug of the Mt. McIntyre Plutonic Suite.

Mineralized zones are crudely tabular, moderate to steeply north dipping and possibly westerly plunging and may in part be localized along minor north dipping splays off the main Goddell fault. Stibnite is commonly the main sulphide phase and is typically accompanied by minor amounts of pyrite, sphalerite and traces of galena.

Hart (1992) described four types of mineralization in the area; quartz-stibnite veins, disseminated gold-pyrite-arsenopyrite, disseminated copper, and quartz-hematite-galena veins.

(1) Quartz-stibnite veins. These are exposed on the west slope of Carbon Hill. They are 0.2 to 1.8 m wide, banded, and commonly contain pyrite and sphalerite. Stibnite-rich quartz-sulphide veins contain up to 13.7 g/t Au and 132 g/t Ag, and up to 5,000 ppb Hg. Massive stibnite samples contain up to 40% Sb, with several percent zinc and 10-100 g/t Ag.

(2) Disseminated copper. Porphyry copper-style mineralization was found at three separate locations near Goddell Gully.
Chalcopyrite and chalcocite occur in thin quartz-pyrite stringers cutting phyllic-altered, malachite and azurite-stained granite.

(3) Quartz-hematite-galena veins. Erratic high gold values from 10 to 17 g/t are reported from thin, anastomosing quartz veins containing specular hematite and minor galena. These veins cut the Carbon Hill granite and are generally adjacent to andesite dykes.

(4) Gold-pyrite-arsenopyrite veins.

The Goddell Shear Zone (formerly called Golden Tusk or PD zone) consist of gold- bearing pyrite and arsenopyrite intersected at depth in two 1988 drillholes. The gold values came from 2 zones. The upper mineralized zone is a black breccia formed from quartz monzonite, rhyolite, andesite and quartz fragments in a fine grained sulphide matrix. Gold in the lower mineralized zone is associated with acicular arsenopyrite crystals in a swarm of altered andesite and porphyritic rhyolite dykes. Hole 88-2 returned 4.1 g/t Au over 7.0 m from the upper zone and 13.4 g/t Au over 6.4 m from the lower zone, while Hole 88-3 produced 20.9 g/t Au over 11.3 m from the lower zone only, including 43.9 g/t Au over 4.3 m. The gold-bearing zones contain 1-12% As, 0.1-2% Sb and return anomalous Hg values. Drilling in 1990 tested the strike extension of the Goddell Shear Zone where it forms a massive alteration zone at surface, 152 m west of the 1988 drillholes. Hole 90-GT-2 intersected 18.3 m grading 5.2 g/t Au and 90-GT-7 intersected 1.5 m grading 461.4 g/t Au.

The 1995 drilling program was designed to test the western extension of the zones discovered in 1988 and to further explore the lower zone at depth. Three drill holes intersected the lower mineralized zone and effectively doubled its strike length. Hole 95-23 returned 15.8 g/t Au over 2.8 m; hole 95-24 returned 13.7 g/t over 6.92 m and hole 95-27 returned 5.6 g/t over 7.4 m. The lower mineralized zone is open at depth and to both the east and west. Geochemical statistics carried out on all drill core samples found that there is a strong positive correlation between Au-As; Ag-Pb-Zn-Cd; and between Mo-W.

Alteration within the main zone of shearing at Goddell is an intense quartz-sericite-carbonate alteration that is visually distinguished by it prominent apple-green coloration. This is surrounded by an envelope of sericitic alteration that extends a few tens of meters beyond and commonly weathers to a distinct brownish cast in affected drill core.

In Sep/2002, Tagish Lake Gold, employing a 5 g/t Au cut-off, estimated that the Goddell deposit hosted an Indicated Mineral Resources of 320,000 tonnes grading 11.02 g/t Au and Inferred Mineral Resources of 280,000 tonnes grading 9.21 g/t Au.

Relogging and infill sampling of historical diamond drill core from the Goddell Gully deposit was undertaken in 2003 after sampling of previously unsampled core from drillhole 97-56 yielded more significant mineralization, 8.49 g/t Au over 2.91 m, located within a larger lower grade zone that emcompassed the historical intersection which had returned 3.57 g/t Au over 0.66 m from a single sample. While the results of sampling of previously unsampled material ultimately indicated that historical sampling had accounted for most of the significant mineralization in the Goddell deposit drill core, it opened the up-dip potential within the Goddell Shear Zone and together with the current drilling suggests that the limits of the deposit are not yet defined.

In Aug/2007 Tagish Lake Gold, emplying a 4 g/t gold cut-off, estimated that the Godell Gully deposit hosted an Indicated Resource of 360,000 tonnes grading 10.3 g/t gold and a Inferred Resource of 310,000 tonnes grading 8.8 g/t gold.

2007 to 2014 not fully summarized yet.

A Technical Report by R.G. Simpson and C.O. Nash stating a resource estimate was filed on September 14, 2012 with an effective date of July 16,2012. A revised document of that report was released with a revision date of July 31, 2013. The revision was made to address comments by the British Columbia Securities Commission, include change in authorship but no material change and the resource estimate was unchanged. The current resource estimate for the Goddell deposit, using a 3 g/t Au cut-off is listed at 329,700 tonnes of INDICATED material grading 8.13g/t Au for a total of 86,210 oz Au (2.68M g Au) and 483,900 tonnes of INFERRED material grading 7.13g/t Au for a total of 110,687 oz Au (3.44M g Au).