Work History
 
Staked as Boy cl 1-150 (Y51099) in Mar/70 by A. Arsenault & G. Wing and optioned in July by Dawson Range Joint Venture (Straus Exploration Inc, Great Plains Development Corporation, Marietta Resources International Ltd, Molybdenum Corporation of America and Trojan Consolidated Mines Ltd).
 
The main showing of the Carmacks Copper property (No. 1 zone) was discovered by prospecting by the Dawson Range Joint Venture (DRJV) in Aug/70. The No. 3 zone was discovered by a soil sampling program conducted later that year.
 
In 1971, the DRJV constructed a road to the site and completed line cutting, VLF-EM and ground magnetic surveys over much of the property and drilled 4 shallow holes at the No. 3 zone.

 In 1981, United Keno Hill Mines Ltd conducted a large soil sampling program on the Noon property that partially covered the No. 3 zone.

In 2006, the property was restaked as the Copper claims by prospector Shawn Ryan and a soil sampling survey was performed with the samples being analysed by conventional ICP and MMI analyses.

In 2007 and 2008, BC Gold Corp performed soil sampling and MMI analyses on the area and in 2009 they performed line cutting and IP geophysical surveying.

 
 Capsule Geology
 
The Carmacks-Minto belt hosts of a series of mineralized zones that are metamorphosed copper deposits which occur along the boundary between the Yukon Tanana and Northern Stikine terranes. The mineralized zones/deposits include the Carmacks Copper deposit (Minfile occurrence 115I 008), the Stu (Minfile Occurrence #115I 011), Def (Minfile Occurrence #115I 021) and Minto (Minfile Occurrence #115I 022). A study by N. Kovacs, et. al. (2016) on the Carmacks Copper deposit provides new insight into the paragenesis of these occurrences. According to Kovacs, et. al., Carmacks Copper and the associated occurrences are hosted in compositionally heterogeneous, foliated and folded, and variably migmatitic metamorphic rocks, which occur as elongate, NNW-trending inliers in Early Jurassic granitoids of the Granite Mountain batholith. Hypogene copper mineralization is restricted to metamorphic host rocks, and occurs both as foliation-parallel chalcopyrite-dominant stringers in schistose rocks, and as net-textured bornite-chalcopyrite-dominant sulphides in the migmatitic rocks prevalent along the eastern margin of the metamorphic inlier. The latter style of mineralization is interpreted to form from a sulphide melt phase generated during partial melting of a previously mineralized protolith, during emplacement of the Granite Mountain batholith.

At the No. 3 zone outcrop is scarce (< 5%) and normally confined to rounded ridge tops and stream cuts. From what is known from the limited geological mapping and 4 drill holes, the occurrence is underlain primarily by foliated to non-foliated hornblende-biotite granodiorite with aplite dykes. Traces of malachite, magnetite and 1-2% epidote were noted in a number of locations.