Work History

Staked as Grouse cl 1-4, and cl 7-14 (Y63484) in Jul/70 by S. Takacs and E. Kreft, who added small blocks of fringe claims annually, including Gear cl 1-6 (Y91133) in Sep/74. Explored with hand trenching and bulldozer trenching in 1970-72; with geological mapping, magnetic surveying and 6 drill holes (445 m) by New Jersey Zinc Corporation Ltd (Grouse #4 and Ray #2 claims) under a brief option in 1972; and with more mapping, geochemical surveys and bulldozer trenching in 1974, a magnetic survey and 6 drill holes (427 m) on the Gear claims in 1975 and 4 drill holes (472.4 m) in 1976 by Whitehorse Copper Mines Ltd under option. Takacs drilled one hole (34.7 m) in 1979, 6 holes (36.0 m) in 1981, trenched in 1982, drilled 3 holes (92.4 m) in 1983, trenched and drilled 3 holes (35 m) in 1984 and added the Raven cl 1-2 (YA93376) to the south in Sep/85. Kreft tied on the Ruth cl 1-4 (YA94118) and Beaver cl 1 (YA93146) in Aug/85 and Jan/86, respectively, and together with Takacs performed geological mapping, bulldozer trenching and drilled 4 holes (455 m) on the Ruth claims. A. Olsson staked Dianne cl 1-3 (YB27625) in Jul/90 and trenched in 1991.
S.J. Takacs restaked the occurrence as Marie cl 1-4 (YB37478) in Sep/92. The Falcon cl 1-10 (YB46474) were staked nearby by R. Voisine in Oct/93. In Jul/95 D. Olsson staked Dianne cl 1-3 (YB57989) 1.5 km northwest of the Marie claims.
S. McKeown staked Nana cl 1-4 (YB57721) 1 km to the southeast in Jun/95 and Protector cl 1-4 (YB58180) 1.5 km to the east (midway between this occurrence and Minfile Occurrenc #105D 079) in Sept/95. In May/96 Pacific Galleon Mining Corp optioned the Nana and Protector claims from McKeown and staked Ba cl 1-10 (YB66861) and Peel cl 1-37 (YB66824). In Jul/96 McKeown carried out trenching, rock geochemical sampling and grid development on the Nana and Protector claims.
In the summer of 1996 Pacific Galleon Mining Corp completed a data compilation, reconnaissance prospecting and soil geochemistry program over their claim holdings. In May/98 ownership of the Ba and Peel claims was transferred to B. Carter who carried out prospecting and geochemical (rock and soil) sampling with B. Scott, before subsequently transferring title to Scott in Sep/98.
In Sep/99, Scott transferred ownership of the Ba, Peel and Marie (previously transferred to him by Takacs in Oct/97) claims to McKeown who immediately carried out trenching (Protector cl 3), reclamation (Red Chief cl 2) and soil geochemical sampling (Nana cl 1, 2 and Ba cl 7, 8).
During 2000, McKeown carried out road rehabilation and resampling of historic trenching on Ba cl 14; relocated and resampled trenches and core stored at old drill sites on Ba cl 7 and 8; and carried out road work and hand held percussion drilling (no specifics) on Marie cl 4.

Capsule Geology

An actinolite-diopside-magnetite skarn up to 30 m thick occurs at the contact between Upper Triassic Lewes River Group limestone and siltstone, and various phases of a mid Cretaceous or younger intrusion. Trenching exposed a 9.8 m wide zone that strikes north, dips vertically and contains minor pyrrhotite, pyrite, chalcopyrite and bornite which assayed 0.39% in a chip sample. The best intersection in the 1972 drilling was 0.26% Cu, 6.9 g/t Ag and 0.17 g/t Au across 0.76 m. An intersection of 5.6% Cu & 270.8 g/t Ag across 6 m was obtained in one 1975 hole but the others were essentially barren. One of the 1976 holes cut bismuthinite in actinolite skarn, which assayed 5.8% Bi and 85.7 g/t Au across 0.4 m and 0.75% Bi, 9.9 g/t Au and 6.9 g/t Ag across 4.6 m. Assays of up to 0.55 g/t Au and 34.6 g/t Ag over 0.3 m of magnetite skarn were reported from the 1983 drilling. The 1986 drilling did not intersect any significant gold values but one hole did contain minor copper, zinc and tungsten mineralization. (The majority of previous drilling was centred around the present day Nana claims.)
S. McKeown staked the Nana and Protector claims in part to cover dimension stone deposits. Pacific Galleon Mining Corp concentrated their efforts in the centre and western portions of their claim holdings. Soil sampling outlined anomalous Au, Cu and As values in the area of previous drilling success. A single-sample low order gold in soil anomaly (53 ppb) was identified in the central part of the claim block. The sample also contained elevated concentrations of Cu and As. McKeown's work failed to detect any additional mineralization during sampling in 1996. Grab sampling by Scott in 1998 in the vicinity of old workings, confirmed previous results and returned gold values up to 1 343 ppb Au from the Ba cl 8. Sampling completed by McKeown in 1999 was not submitted for analysis.
Selective and limited sampling of historic core in 2000 returned anomalous copper values from two skarnified sections of core located on Ba cl 7 (5 175 ppm and 64 078 ppm) although no description of the core sampled was provided. A separate sample of weakly calcareous skarn or hornfels, collected on Ba cl 8 from core taken from DDH KT-8, returned 40 140.9 ppb Au with 38 591 ppm Bi and anomalous levels of Mo, Cu and Pb. Samples of variably mineralized skarn and quartz-sulfide veins from the trench on Ba cl 14 returned high values for copper and gold, with peak values of 62 957 ppm and 18 138.4 ppb respectively. A single sample of sulfide rich material from Marie cl 4 returned 79 034 ppm Cu with 1 935.2 ppb Au and 286 ppm Ag.

References

KREFT, E. and TAKACS, S., Sep/79. Assessment Report *#091128 by E. Kreft.

KREFT, E., Apr/84. Assessment Report *#091537 by E. Kreft.

KREFT, E., Jan/87. Assessment Report *#091899 by A. Hureau.

KREFT, E., 1986. Yukon Exploration Incentive Program Report #093090 by A. Hureau

MCKEOWN, S., Oct/97. Assessment Report #093896 by J. Clarke.

McKEOWN, S., Oct/97. Assessment Report #093898 by J. Clarke.

McKEOWN, S., May/2000. Assessment Report #094127 by R.A. Doherty.

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MINERAL INDUSTRY REPORT, 1971-72, p. 52; 1974, p. 143-144; 1975, p. 101-104; 1976, p. 152

PACIFIC GALLEON MINING CORP., Nov/96. Assessment Report #093515 by H.J. Keyser.

PACIFIC GALLEON MINING CORP., Dec/96. Assessment Report #093546 by H.J. Keyer.

SCOTT, B., Nov/98. Assessment Report #093936 by J. Clarke.

TAKACS, S. and KREFT, E., Jan/73. Assessment Report #091127 by G. Boggaram.

WHITEHORSE COPPER MINES LTD, 1974. Assessment Report *#061284 by D. Tenney.

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YUKON EXPLORATION AND GEOLOGY 1983, p. 161; 1984, p. 73.

YUKON EXPLORATION 1985-86, p. 169-170.