Work History

Staked as Aro cl 1-32 (Y83128) in Aug/74 by AEX Minerals Corporation Ltd and Anvil Range Syndicate (Teck Corporation Ltd & Du Pont of Canada Exploration Ltd), which carried out reconnaissance magnetic and soil sampling surveys and prospecting. The adjoining Coj and Nwc groups (Y83435) and the nearby Geox cl (Y80637) to the north were recorded in September by R. Blusson and Associates.
Restaked as T cl 1-357 (YA11590) in Oct/76 by Tenas Joint Venture (Du Pont and Western Mines Ltd), which added more T and Tenas claims as part of a 728 claim belt 45 km long and explored with geological mapping, grid soil sampling, gravity surveying and drilled two holes (455 m) in 1977; gravity and airborne magnetic and EM surveys in 1978; and wide spaced drilling on the T group in 1979. The Tenas Joint Venture claims were optioned in 1980 by Cyprus Anvil Mining Corporation. Du Pont¿s interest was transferred to CSA Minerals Inc in 1984 and to Goldsearch Inc in 1985.
Restaked as Skate cl 1-44 (YB68969) by Expatriate Resources Ltd in Oct/95, who carried out geological mapping, prospecting, stream sediment sampling and soil sampling along the claim lines in 1996 and drilled 3 holes (556 m) in 1997.

Capsule Geology

The area is located northwest of the upper limits of recent mapping completed on adjoining topographical map sheet 105G by Murphy (2001) and others employed by the Yukon Geology Program. The occurrence is located near the bank of the Ross River and bedrock is generally obscured by glacial overburden. Based on observations reported by Expatriate Resources and extrapolations from Murphy¿s 2001 geology map, it appears the occurrence is underlain by Carboniferous (?) age metavolcanic and metasedimentary phyllites, siliceous phyllites and cherts (probably Murphy¿s unit C?cs) and basaltic volcanic rocks belonging to the Early Permian Campbell Range Succession making the rocks part of the Yukon Tanana Terrane. Alternatively the metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks could belong to ancestral North America which would make them older, i.e. Devonian ¿ Mississippian Earn Group.
The occurrence was originally staked on a weak gossan and aeromagnetic anomaly underlain by phyllite and altered volcanic rocks. Prospecting of a gravity anomaly in the area located several massive sulfide float boulders. The boulders were described as medium-grained aggregates of pyrite ( Two surface showings of limited extent have been discovered on the property that contain foliaform sulfide mineralization. One showing, called the West showing consists of 2 to 20 cm wide foliaform massive pyrrhotite bands containing disseminated chalcopyrite. The mineralization could not be traced along strike because of till and vegetation cover. On specimen returned 0.28% Cu and 0.20% Zn but low values for Pb, Ag and Au. All thee 1977 drill holes were drilled on a gravity anomaly located near the West showing. One hole (DDH 77-1) intersected 0.4 m of massive sulfide which assayed 5.95% Zn, 6.15% Pb, and 102 g/t Ag.
Expatriate¿s drilled approximately 100m east, south and west of previous drill hole 77-01. No significant sulphides were intersected and mineralization was restricted to crosscutting quartz veins containing weak chalcopyrite, galena, sphalerite and pyrrhotite. The main rock types intersected were siliceous phyllite with siltstone interbeds and a locally porphyritic metabasalt.

References

DU PONT OF CANADA EXPLORATION LTD, Oct/77. Assessment Report *#091202 by K.A. MacLean.

DU PONT OF CANADA EXPLORATION LTD, Oct/77. Assessment Report #092905 by K.A. MacLean.

DU PONT OF CANADA EXPLORATION LTD, Aug/78. Assessment Report #090335 by C.A. Ager.

EXPATRIATE RESOURCES LTD, Feb/97. Assessment Report #093639 by W.A. Wengzynowski.

EXPATRIATE RESOURCES LTD, Apr/98. Assessment Report #093784 by W.A. Wengzynowski.

GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA Map 13-1961.

MINERAL INDUSTRY REPORT 1974, p. 137; 1977, p. 62-63; 1978, p. 40.

MURPHY, D.C et al., 2001. Prelimnary Bedrock Geology Map of Northern Finlayson Lake Area (NTS 105G), Yukon Territory (1:100 000 scale), Open File 2001-33.

MURPHY et al., 2001. Finlayson Lake Targeted Geoscience Initiative (southeastern Yukon), Part 1: Bedrock Geology. In Yukon Exploration and Geology, 2001, Exploration and Geological Services Division, Yukon, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, p. 189-207.

PIGAGE, L.C., 2001. Geological map of Anvil District (NTS 105K/2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 11) central Yukon (1:100 000 scale). Exploration and Geological Services Division, Yukon Region, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Open File 2001-31.

TENAS JOINT VENTURE, 1977. Assessment Report *#061652 by F.M. Smith.

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YUKON EXPLORATION AND GEOLOGY 1997, p. 16, 38.