Work History

Staked as Gun cl (Y9429) in Jun/66, following airborne mag and EM surveys by Conwest EL, which explored with prospecting, limited geochemical and geophysical surveys and 3 holes (340.2 m) later in the year.
Restaked as part of a block of 1070 Sue cl (Y80651) in Sep/74 by a syndicate of Conwest companies (Chimo Gold ML, Cons Can Faraday and Int Mogul ML) and Teck Corp. Seaforth ML tied on Mac and Oz cl (Y91435) to the southeast in Oct/74. Essex Mls L (U.S. Steel) acquired the Teck interest in Jan/75 and formed the Macmillan JV which performed lake bottom sediment sampling and extensive linecutting (bulldozer), mag, EM and gravity surveys in 1975, 1976 and 1977. Macmillan JV drilled one hole (194.2 m) 0.8 km to the west on claim 453 and one hole (135.9 m) 1.6 km to the east on claim 201 in 1978.
The Conwest syndicate interest was acquired early in 1980 by Getty ML, which added more claims and performed geochem, geophysical and linecutting in 1981, and soil sampling, linecutting and diamond drilling in 1984.
The Sue claims were abandoned and restaked as Clear cl (YB25815) in Jun/89 by Total Energold Corp, a wholly owned subsidiary of Total Erickson Resources Ltd. In 1991, the property was optioned to Mitsui Kinzoku Resources of Canada Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co. Ltd, as part of a large claim block associated with the Clear Lake deposit (Minfile 105L 045). Work on the Clear Lake property in 1991 consisted of 4588.2 m of diamond drilling in 19 holes, gravity and IP surveys, mapping, trenching and soil sampling, and further geological, geochemical and geophysical surveys were carried out in 1992.
The Clear and Sue claims were transferred to Energold Minerals Inc. in Nov/92. Several of these claims were transferred to Mitsui Kinzoku Resources of Canada in April/93. In 1993, Mitsui Kinzuko Resources and Energold Minerals Inc. explored the Clear Lake property with gravity and magnetometer surveys, auger assisted soil sampling, rock chip sampling, geological mapping and six diamond drill holes totalling 1364 m.

Capsule Geology

The claims are situated in a wide, flat, largely overburden-covered valley along the Tintina Fault. The 1966 holes cut Cambro-Ordovician phyllitic limestone and intercalated graphitic phyllite, covered by 8 to 20 m of overburden. Traces of pyrite and pyrrhotite were noted in graphitic sections. The area of interest is 1000 by 1500 m and is marked by lead and zinc soil anomalies that coincide with an EM conductor.

References

ENERGOLD MINERALS INC., Dec/93. Assessment Report #093145 by H.W. Sellmer et al.

MACMILLAN JOINT VENTURE, Aug/81. Assessment Report #090851 by C.W. Payne.

MINERAL INDUSTRY REPORT, 1975, p. 129; 1976, p. 164; 1977, p. 69; 1978, p. 45-46.