Highlights include:
Rock sampling returned 2.15 g/t gold from Anomaly C.
The newly delineated Anomaly D defined by a 1,200 x 1,300 m circular magnetic feature with coincident anomalous gold- and copper-in-soil values.
Hand trench graded 0.453 g/t gold over 6 m, including 1.505 g/t gold over 1.0 m from Anomaly A.
The Treble property is located midway between
During summer 2022
Within Anomaly A, a 6 m trench dug up-slope of a 2011 grab sample of hydrothermal breccia that returned 14.15 g/t gold exposed sub-outcrop of brecciated, silicified and altered schist. A continuous chip sample averaged 0.453 g/t gold over 6 m, including 1.505 g/t gold over 1.0 m (Photo 1). The subcrop exposed in the trench comprised oxidized to limonitic quartzite to psammitic schist hosting cavities infilled with euhedral quartz, minor quartzite crackle breccia, as well as hydrothermal breccia with clasts of quartz supported in a fine-grained, dark grey, siliceous matrix. This area broadly coincides with a magnetic low geophysical anomaly.
Photo 1: TR-22-02 composite sample of brecciated schist with crosscutting quartz veining and abundant limonitic vugs and cavities. This sample returned 1.505 g/t gold over 1.0 m.
Infill soil sampling at Anomaly C returned values up to 880 ppb gold. A prospecting pit dug near this peak soil value discovered strongly oxidized material grading 2.15 g/t gold, 20.3 g/silver, and above detection limit (>10,000 ppm) arsenic (Photo 2).
Photo 2: Strongly oxidized to quartz-sericite-clay altered, medium-grained, granitoid with abundant vugs and cavities infilled with scorodite, limonite, and brown oxide that returned 2.15 g/t gold and 20.3 g/t silver within Anomaly C.
Six new claims were staked to cover a circular magnetic feature (Anomaly D) near the western side of the property. Soil sampling returned strongly anomalous copper and gold values (up to 301 ppm Cu and 156 ppb Au) over a 1,200 by 1,300 m area (Figures 2 and 3). The geophysical response in this area is similar to hydrothermally altered and mineralized Late Cretaceous granitic intrusions elsewhere in the Dawson Range Gold Belt.
Anomaly E lies subparallel to Anomaly A and is a 2000 by 500 m elongated band of weakly to strongly anomalous soil response for gold (up to 648 ppb) and arsenic (up to 810 ppm) that broadly overlaps a juxtaposed magnetic low and high that is associated with a
Figure 2. Gold-in-rock geochemical results from all programs over FVD magnetic dataFigure 3. Gold-in-soil geochemical results from all programs over FVD magnetic data
The geophysical and geochemical anomalies, coupled with mapped outcrops and mineralized rock samples at surface suggest evidence for a large hydrothermal system related to Late Cretaceous granitic intrusions.
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