General Information
Deposit Type(s): Unknown
Location(s): 61°33'9" N - -131°32'57" W
NTS Mapsheet(s): 105G12
Location Comments: .5 Kilometres
Hand Samples Available: No
Last Reviewed:
Capsule
Work History
Staked as Pike cl 5, 6 (YB15733) in Jun/89 by P. Stone who, along with R. Dick and H. Caesar, added Pike cl 1-4 (YB15746), plus Tia, cl 1-2 (YB15829) Rabbit cl 1-2 (YB16161), Azzus cl 1-7 (YB16059) and Dene cl 1-2 (YB15831)to the east and west in July and Aug/89. The Tia, Azzus, Rabbit and Dene claims lapsed in Sep/90.
T. Dickson tied on Lynx cl 1-2 (YB33932) and Fox cl 1-2 (YB33934) west of the surviving Pike claims in Apr/91. By Aug/92 all of the Lynx, Fox and Pike claims had lapsed and there is no record of assessment work ever being filed for any of these claims.
In June/94 Cominco Ltd staked the Bou cl 1-9 (YB49820) 2 km to the northwest. The claims were staked to cover airborne geophysical targets identified by a survey flown by Cominco earlier in the year. The company carried out reconnaissance soil sampling and prospecting later in the summer. In 1996 the company cut a small grid ( 2 km) on the claim block before optioning the claims to Pacific Bay Minerals Ltd which carried out limited geological mapping, prospecting and geochemcial sampling in 1997.
The occurrence was restaked as Nick cl 1-4 (YB92381) in Aug/99 by H. Caesar who staked Nick cl 5-6 (YB92562) in Oct/99. Caesar partially restaked the Bou claims as Trek cl 1-4 and Loon cl 1-2 (YB93273) in Jun/2001.
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. Volcanic-hosted massive sulphide 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 claims are located in a predominantly till-covered area underlain by Eocene basaltic tuffs and flows. These volcanic rocks are best exposed along the banks of the Hoole River. No other rocks are known to be exposed in the area.
Cominco observed no outcrop on the Bou claims. Soil sampling and prospecting failed to return any anomalous results and the airborne EM anomaly was judged too small to warrant any additional follow-up work.
References
BOND, J.D., MURPHY, D.C., COLPRON, M., GORDEY, S.P., PLOUFFE, A., ROOTS, C.F., LIPOVSKY, P.S., STRONGHILL, G., AND ABBOTT, J.G., 2002. Digital compilation of bedrock geology and till geochemistry, northern Finlayson Lake map area, Southeastern Yukon (105G), Exploration and Geological Services Division, Yukon Region, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Open File Report, 2002-7(D) and Geological Survey of Canada Open File 4243.
COMINCO LTD, Feb/95. Assessment Report #093340 by P.A. MacRobbie.
COMINCO LTD, Apr/98. Assessment Report #093714 by D.A. Senft.
GORDEY, S.P. AND MAKEPEACE, A.J., 2003. Yukon Digital Geology, version 2.0, S.P. Gordey and A.J. Makepeace (comp); Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 1749 and Yukon Geological Survey, Open File 2003-9 (D).
HUNT, J.A., 2001. Volcanic-associated massive (VMS) mineralization in the Yukon-Tanana Terrane and coeval strata of the North American miogeocline, in the Yukon and adjacent areas. Exploration and Geological Services Division, Yukon Region, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Bulletin 12, 107 p.
MORTENSEN, J.K., AND JILSON, G.A., 1985. Evolution of the Yukon-Tanana terrane: evidence from southeastern Yukon Territory. Geology, vol. 13, p. 806-810.
MURPHY, D.C., 1998. Stratigraphic framework for syngenetic occurrences, Yukon-Tanana Terrane south of Finlayson Lake: A Progress Report. In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 1997, Exploration and Geological Services Division, Yukon Region, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, p. 51-58.
MURPHY, D.C., AND PIERCEY, S.J., 1999a. Finlayson project: Geological evolution of Yukon-Tanana Terrane and its relationship to Campbell Range belt, northern Wolverine Lake map area, southeastern Yukon. In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 1998, C.F. Roots and D.S. Emond (eds.), Exploration and Geological Services Division, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, p.47-62.
MURPHY, D.C. AND PIERCEY, S.J., 1999b. Geological map of parts of Finlayson Lake (105G/7, 8 and parts of 1, 2, and 9) and Frances Lake (parts of 105H/5 and 12) map areas, southeastern Yukon (1:100 000-scale). Exploration and Geological Services Division, Yukon Region, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Open File 1999-4.
MURPHY, D.C. AND PIERCEY, S.J., 2000. Syn-mineralization faults and their re-activation, Finlayson Lake massive sulphide district, Yukon-Tanana Terrane, southeastern Yukon. In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 1999, D.S. Emond and L.H. Weston (eds.), Exploration and Geological Services Division, Yukon Region, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, p. 55-66.
MURPHY, D.C., COLPRON, M., GORDEY, S.P., ROOTS, C.F., ABBOTT, G., AND LIPOVSKY, P.S., 2001. Preliminary bedrock geological map of northern Finlayson Lake area (NTS 105 G) Yukon Territory (1:100 000 scale). Exploration and Geological Services Division, Yukon Region, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Open File 2001-33.
MURPHY, D.C., COLPRON, M., ROOTS, C.F., GORDEY, S.P. AND ABBOTT, J.G., 2002. Finlayson Lake Targeted Geoscience Initiative (southeastern Yukon) , Part 1: Bedrock geology. In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 2001, D.S. Emond, L.H. Weston and L.L. Lewis (eds.), Exploration and Geological Services Division, Yukon Region, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, p. 189-207.
PACIFIC BAY MINERALS LTD, May/98. Assessment Report #093851 by F. Moyle and G.L. Wesa.
PIERCEY, S.J., HUNT, J.A. and MURPHY, D.C., 1999. Lithogeochemistry of meta-volcanic rocks from Yukon-Tanana Terrane, Finlayson Lake region, Yukon: Preliminary results. In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 1998, C.F. Roots and D.S. Emond (eds.), Exploration and Geological Services Division, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, p.125-138.
Staked as Pike cl 5, 6 (YB15733) in Jun/89 by P. Stone who, along with R. Dick and H. Caesar, added Pike cl 1-4 (YB15746), plus Tia, cl 1-2 (YB15829) Rabbit cl 1-2 (YB16161), Azzus cl 1-7 (YB16059) and Dene cl 1-2 (YB15831)to the east and west in July and Aug/89. The Tia, Azzus, Rabbit and Dene claims lapsed in Sep/90.
T. Dickson tied on Lynx cl 1-2 (YB33932) and Fox cl 1-2 (YB33934) west of the surviving Pike claims in Apr/91. By Aug/92 all of the Lynx, Fox and Pike claims had lapsed and there is no record of assessment work ever being filed for any of these claims.
In June/94 Cominco Ltd staked the Bou cl 1-9 (YB49820) 2 km to the northwest. The claims were staked to cover airborne geophysical targets identified by a survey flown by Cominco earlier in the year. The company carried out reconnaissance soil sampling and prospecting later in the summer. In 1996 the company cut a small grid ( 2 km) on the claim block before optioning the claims to Pacific Bay Minerals Ltd which carried out limited geological mapping, prospecting and geochemcial sampling in 1997.
The occurrence was restaked as Nick cl 1-4 (YB92381) in Aug/99 by H. Caesar who staked Nick cl 5-6 (YB92562) in Oct/99. Caesar partially restaked the Bou claims as Trek cl 1-4 and Loon cl 1-2 (YB93273) in Jun/2001.
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. Volcanic-hosted massive sulphide 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 claims are located in a predominantly till-covered area underlain by Eocene basaltic tuffs and flows. These volcanic rocks are best exposed along the banks of the Hoole River. No other rocks are known to be exposed in the area.
Cominco observed no outcrop on the Bou claims. Soil sampling and prospecting failed to return any anomalous results and the airborne EM anomaly was judged too small to warrant any additional follow-up work.
References
BOND, J.D., MURPHY, D.C., COLPRON, M., GORDEY, S.P., PLOUFFE, A., ROOTS, C.F., LIPOVSKY, P.S., STRONGHILL, G., AND ABBOTT, J.G., 2002. Digital compilation of bedrock geology and till geochemistry, northern Finlayson Lake map area, Southeastern Yukon (105G), Exploration and Geological Services Division, Yukon Region, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Open File Report, 2002-7(D) and Geological Survey of Canada Open File 4243.
COMINCO LTD, Feb/95. Assessment Report #093340 by P.A. MacRobbie.
COMINCO LTD, Apr/98. Assessment Report #093714 by D.A. Senft.
GORDEY, S.P. AND MAKEPEACE, A.J., 2003. Yukon Digital Geology, version 2.0, S.P. Gordey and A.J. Makepeace (comp); Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 1749 and Yukon Geological Survey, Open File 2003-9 (D).
HUNT, J.A., 2001. Volcanic-associated massive (VMS) mineralization in the Yukon-Tanana Terrane and coeval strata of the North American miogeocline, in the Yukon and adjacent areas. Exploration and Geological Services Division, Yukon Region, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Bulletin 12, 107 p.
MORTENSEN, J.K., AND JILSON, G.A., 1985. Evolution of the Yukon-Tanana terrane: evidence from southeastern Yukon Territory. Geology, vol. 13, p. 806-810.
MURPHY, D.C., 1998. Stratigraphic framework for syngenetic occurrences, Yukon-Tanana Terrane south of Finlayson Lake: A Progress Report. In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 1997, Exploration and Geological Services Division, Yukon Region, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, p. 51-58.
MURPHY, D.C., AND PIERCEY, S.J., 1999a. Finlayson project: Geological evolution of Yukon-Tanana Terrane and its relationship to Campbell Range belt, northern Wolverine Lake map area, southeastern Yukon. In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 1998, C.F. Roots and D.S. Emond (eds.), Exploration and Geological Services Division, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, p.47-62.
MURPHY, D.C. AND PIERCEY, S.J., 1999b. Geological map of parts of Finlayson Lake (105G/7, 8 and parts of 1, 2, and 9) and Frances Lake (parts of 105H/5 and 12) map areas, southeastern Yukon (1:100 000-scale). Exploration and Geological Services Division, Yukon Region, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Open File 1999-4.
MURPHY, D.C. AND PIERCEY, S.J., 2000. Syn-mineralization faults and their re-activation, Finlayson Lake massive sulphide district, Yukon-Tanana Terrane, southeastern Yukon. In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 1999, D.S. Emond and L.H. Weston (eds.), Exploration and Geological Services Division, Yukon Region, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, p. 55-66.
MURPHY, D.C., COLPRON, M., GORDEY, S.P., ROOTS, C.F., ABBOTT, G., AND LIPOVSKY, P.S., 2001. Preliminary bedrock geological map of northern Finlayson Lake area (NTS 105 G) Yukon Territory (1:100 000 scale). Exploration and Geological Services Division, Yukon Region, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Open File 2001-33.
MURPHY, D.C., COLPRON, M., ROOTS, C.F., GORDEY, S.P. AND ABBOTT, J.G., 2002. Finlayson Lake Targeted Geoscience Initiative (southeastern Yukon) , Part 1: Bedrock geology. In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 2001, D.S. Emond, L.H. Weston and L.L. Lewis (eds.), Exploration and Geological Services Division, Yukon Region, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, p. 189-207.
PACIFIC BAY MINERALS LTD, May/98. Assessment Report #093851 by F. Moyle and G.L. Wesa.
PIERCEY, S.J., HUNT, J.A. and MURPHY, D.C., 1999. Lithogeochemistry of meta-volcanic rocks from Yukon-Tanana Terrane, Finlayson Lake region, Yukon: Preliminary results. In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 1998, C.F. Roots and D.S. Emond (eds.), Exploration and Geological Services Division, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, p.125-138.
Work History
| Date | Work Type | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| 12/31/1997 | Geology | |
| 12/31/1997 | Geochemistry | Also rock sampling. |
| 12/31/1997 | Other | |
| 12/31/1996 | Other | Cominco cut grid but never performed any work on it. |
| 12/31/1994 | Geochemistry | |
| 12/31/1994 | Other | |
| 12/31/1994 | Airborne Geophysics | Cominco flew regional airborne geophysical survey. |
Assessment Reports that overlap occurrence
| Report Number | Year | Title | Worktypes | Holes Drilled | Meters Drilled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 093669 | 1996 | Assessment Report on the 1996 Biogeochemistry Survey on the Cyr Property | Biogeochemistry - Geochemistry | ||
| 093582 | 1996 | Geological, Geophysical and Diamond Drilling Report on the Argus Property | Diamond - Drilling, Rock - Geochemistry, Bedrock Mapping - Geology, EM - Ground Geophysics, Magnetics - Ground Geophysics | 8 | 908.50 |
| 093469 | 1995 | Geological, Rock and Soil Geochemical Survey Argus Mineral Claims | Rock - Geochemistry, Soil - Geochemistry, Bedrock Mapping - Geology | ||
| 093194 | 1993 | Assessment Report on the 1993 Geological and Geochemical Investigation of the Argus Property | Orthophoto - Airphotography, Auger - Drilling, Rock - Geochemistry, Silt - Geochemistry, Soil - Geochemistry, Bedrock Mapping - Geology, Line Cutting - Other | ||
| 091161 | 1978 | Assessment Report on Bulldozer Trenching Conducted July 31 to Aug 9, 1978 on Hoho 1-48, 57-68, 67-78, 174, 176, 178, 180, 189-190, 270F-272F Claims | Rock - Geochemistry, Mechanical - Trenching | ||
| 090950 | 1973 | Drill Logs Hoo Joint Venture | All Weather Road - Development, Surface, Diamond - Drilling, Mechanical - Trenching | 8 | 762.10 |
| 060148 | 1972 | Geology and Geochemistry, Hoo Occurrence | Silt - Geochemistry, Soil - Geochemistry, Bedrock Mapping - Geology | ||
| 060250 | 1966 | Geological, Geochemical, Geophysical & Physical Work Report on the Hoo, EL, Gee Leo, P.S., P.G., C.W. and Z Claim Groups | Electromagnetic - Airborne Geophysics, Magnetic - Airborne Geophysics, Diamond - Drilling, Rock - Geochemistry, Silt - Geochemistry, Soil - Geochemistry, Bedrock Mapping - Geology, EM - Ground Geophysics, Backhoe - Trenching | 4 | 486.46 |
| 019114 | 1966 | Report on the Hoo, EL, Gee Leo, P.S., P.G., C.W. and Z Group of Mineral Claim Groups | Electromagnetic - Airborne Geophysics, Magnetic - Airborne Geophysics, Diamond - Drilling, Rock - Geochemistry, Silt - Geochemistry, Soil - Geochemistry, Bedrock Mapping - Geology, EM - Ground Geophysics, Backhoe - Trenching | 4 | 486.46 |
| 019117 | 1966 | Report on Airborne Geophysical Survey | EM - Ground Geophysics, Magnetics - Ground Geophysics |