Work History

Staked as Desoto cl 1-10 (YBI5680) in May/89 by A. Carlos. W. Arnholtz tied on Arm cl 1-8 (YB15752) to the west in Jul/89. In Jun/90 Total Energold Corporation prospected and soil sampled the Arm claims.
In Aug/90, after the Desoto claims expired, J. Martensson a partner with Arnholtz restaked the occurrence as Arm cl 9-12 (YB33538). In Jul/91 Martensson collected a series of soil samples across the entire Arm claim block, the results of which were subjected to factor analysis.
In May/94 Cominco staked the Wol cl 95-156 (YB48825) 2 km southeast of the Arm claims. Cominco surrounded the Arm claims with a large block of Tag claims (1115-1538, YB51332) in Aug/94. During the summer of 1994 Cominco carried out a regional exploration program in the area, including geochemical sampling on the Arm claims. In Oct/94, based on the results of this exploration program, Cominco optioned the Arm claims.
In 1995, Cominco collected 995 soil and silt samples from the Tag claims surrounding the Arm claims. In 1996 Cominco completed HLEM, magnetic and gravity surveys on the Arm claims, following which the company drilled 1 diamond drill hole (139.6 m). In Mar/97 Cominco terminated its option on the Arm claims.
Expatriate Resources Ltd optioned the Arm claims in Mar/97. The company carried out soil sampling, prospecting and hand trenching followed by 3 diamond drill holes (462 m) later in the year.

Capsule Geology

The Finlayson Lake region is dominantly underlain by a layered sequence of Devonian to Early Mississippian metavolcanic and metasedimentary rocks of the Yukon-Tanana Terrane (YTT) that have been intruded by Mississippian granitic intrusions and later Jurassic, Cretaceous and Eocene intrusions (Murphy et al., 2001). The YTT is a volcanic-plutonic pericratonic arc assemblage that was strongly deformed and metamorphosed by Late Triassic time. Volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposits exist at different stratigraphic positions within the YTT including the Fyre Lake deposit (Minfile Occurrence #105G 034) in the Devonian to lower Mississippian(?) Fire Lake mafic metavolcanic unit, the Kudz Ze Kayah deposit (Minfile Occurrence #105G 117) in the Mississippian Kudz Ze Kayah felsic metavolcanic unit, the Wolverine deposit (Minfile Occurrence #105G 072) within the Lower Mississippian Wolverine Succession and the Ice deposit (Minfile Occurrence #105G 118) in Early Permian Campbell Range basalt.
The occurrence is located northwest of Wolverine Lake, 18 km northwest of the Wolverine VMS deposit. According to regional mapping (Murphy et al., 2001), the occurrence is underlain by Mississippian Wolverine Succession metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks. These rocks are in turn overlain to the east by Early Permian mafic volcanic rocks of the Campbell Range Succession.
The Desoto claims (original occurrence) covered the contact between Campbell Range Succession basalts and underlying Wolverine Lake Succession slate, phyllite and chert pebble conglomerate. Soil samples collected from quartz-carbonate alteration zones occurring along the contact returned anomalous arsenic values.
The Arm claims were staked to cover the drainage from which an anomalous regional silt sample was collected (#873511; Hornbrook and Friske, 1988). The sample returned the highest analyzed results from the entire map sheet for As (450 ppm), V (470 ppm) Cu (2 820 ppm), Mo (91 ppm) and Cd (46.8 ppm) as well as the highest Zn (1 935 ppm) and U (61.4 ppm) values for the host unit. Early work on the property resulted in the discovery of several ferricrete gossans in the main drainage and minor boxwork float on the flanks of the creek.
The 1990 work failed to locate the source of the largest (300 x 10 x 4 m) gossan, but soil samples returned up to 4200 ppm Zn, 1820 ppm Cu and 7.6 ppm Ag. Martensson's work detected a suite of volatiles (Hg, Sb, Ag, Ba) associated with the carbonaceous phyllite, and anomalous Cu, Zn, As, Pb and V values associated with quartzite (likely unit MWcp).
Cominco's 1994 soil sampling/evaluation program on the Arm claims generally matched previous work, with strongly anomalous values in Ag, Mo, Ba, Cu, Zn, and Fe. However, the work did not identify any specific targets. The 1995 program on the proximal Tag claims produced many multi-element (Pb/Zn/Ag/Mo/Ba) anomalies. The magnetic survey produced no anomalies of merit and, while the HLEM survey outlined a broad zone of conductivity throughout the central portion of the property (also the most geochemically responsive area), the gravity survey which followed provided no additional encouragement.
Cominco's 1996 drill hole on the Arm property appears to have intersected conglomerate, siltstone and argillite (probably unit MWcl), fragmented sediments, tuffs and quartz vein material (probably unit MWf/MWq) and black clastics (probably unit MWcp). Fine disseminated pyrite was reported present in the clastics and in quartz veins. The hole did not return any economic intersections but the black clastics did return anomalous values for Zn and Cu.
Expatriate's geological mapping generally confirms results reported by Murphy and Piercey and earlier mappers. The soil sampling program showed that anomalous zinc, lead and copper values are sporadically coincident while "anomalous silver values, as defined by regional thresholds, occur across 90% of the grid". Expatriate's 1997 diamond drilling program consisted of a single line of three holes equally spaced over a distance of 400 m. The holes were designed to test stratigraphy uphill from the main geochemical anomalies and ferricrete gossans. The drilling returned intersections of black phyllite and grey siltstone with variable concentrations of quartz-healed fractures, tension gashes, veins and veinlets (probably units MWcl, MWf/MWq and MWcp) . Pyrite, the only sulphide mineral encountered in the drilling, occurs as fine grained wisps and laminations in the clastic sedimentary rock and as coarser grained cubes in fractures and parallel to foliation. The best intersection was returned from hole ARM97- 03, where a 12.5 metre intersection returned an arithmetic average of 3315 ppm

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