The Hungry Creek North occurrence is located at approximately 2050 metres elevation on a south-southwest–facing ridge, north of Hungry Creek and approximately 3.7 kilometres west-southwest of the creeks’ junction with the St. Mary River.
Regionally, the area is underlain by sedimentary units belonging to the Mesoproterozoic Purcell Basin (Purcell Supergroup). They include clastic and lesser carbonate rocks with minor mafic sills. The basal unit in the area is the deep water, quartzitic Aldridge Formation, overlain by shallow water clastic rocks of the Creston Formation that in turn are overlain by platformal Kitchener Formation clastic and carbonate rocks. The area is along the west limb of the Purcell anticline, a broad north-plunging fold structure that cores the Purcell Basin. Beds generally strike north-northeast and dip moderately to steeply west. The area is bracketed to the west by the north-northeast–trending Redding Creek fault and to the east by the north-northeast–trending Hall Lake fault. The area has been intruded by numerous Middle to Late Cretaceous granitic bodies that seal the major north-northeast faults.
Locally, the area is primarily underlain by medium-bedded phyllitic siltite and lesser slaty/schistose quartzites of the Mesoproterozoic Creston Formation. Iron carbonate minerals and calcite are locally present to abundant within some of these units as well as disseminated magnetite and ubiquitous sericite±chlorite. To the southwest, a fault slice of the Mesoproterozoic Kitchener Formation is exposed and comprises calcareous siltite and silty quartzite with some stromatolites. Immediately west of these units is a thick sequence of black phyllitic argillite with some interbeds of thick tabular siltite. Foliated, generally magnetic greenstone bodies are abundant on the claim block intruding all the stratigraphic units. They tend to be sill like but also occur as boudinaged strands within bedding-subparallel structural zones. They range in thickness from 30 centimetres to upwards of 10 metres thick. The area has been intruded by unfoliated gabbroic breccia to intermediate feldspar porphyry dikes, occurring in close spatial relationship to unfoliated quartz-eye porphyry to aphanitic felsic dikes. Contacts of both dikes are not well exposed; however, they generally trend north-northeast subparallel to bedding.
Mineralization is generally restricted to numerous north-northeast–trending bedding subparallel shear zones, which commonly host foliated greenstone dikes. Mineralization consists predominantly of rusty weathering quartz veins with sericite and boxworks after pyrite as well as poddy/patchy chalcopyrite. The margins of this vein locally contain ‘seams’ of crystalline (dodecahedron) limonite up to 10 cm thick. This particular zone is locally boudinaged and contains quartz vein blowouts in excess of 8 metres thick with strike lengths locally exceeding 100 metres. This shear zone can be traced from the ridge between Hungry Creek and the Westfork River south-southwest for more than 400 metres.
In 2019, a float sample (HSK28) of mineralized quartz vein from the main shear zone assayed 2.23 per cent copper, and a nearby float sample of similar material (HKS27) yielded 0.46 per cent copper with anomalous values of 0.026 per cent cerium and 0.013 per cent lanthanum (Assessment Report 39212). A subcrop sample (HSK-30) of limonite- and carbonate-altered quartz with galena hosted by quartzites with iron carbonate veins, located several hundred metres east of the shear zone, assayed 45.7 grams per tonne silver, greater than 1.00 per cent lead and 0.10 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 39212).
Also at this time, samples (HSK-02, 03, 07, 13, 14, 15, and HMK-05, 06) from semi-massive to massive sulphide (pyrite±chalcopyrite)-bearing boulders along the central part of Hungry Creek, south and southeast of the occurrence, yielded values of up to 5.00 per cent copper, 0.36 per cent cobalt, 25 grams per tonne silver and 0.35 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 39212).
In 2021, samples from mineralized float boulders (SK02 to SK07, SK13 and SK15) along Hungry Creek yielded values from trace 5.0 per cent copper, trace to 0.18 per cent cobalt, 0.16 to 50.7 grams per tonne silver and trace to 1.49 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 40363). Drilling at this time on the area of the float boulders failed to intercept any significant copper mineralization.
Work History
In 2011, Bethpage Capital Corp. conducted a 479.1 line-kilometre airborne geophysical survey on the area as part of the Hall Lake property. In 2013, Eagle Plains Resources Ltd. conducted a program of geological mapping and geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling on the Hall Lake property.
In 2019 and 2020, DLC Resources Inc. completed programs of prospecting, geological mapping, geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling and 15.4 line-kilometres of ground magnetic and electromagnetic surveys on the area as the Hungry Creek property. In 2021, DLP Resources Inc. completed a 233.7 line-kilometre airborne magnetic and electromagnetic survey and two diamond drill holes, totalling 826.6 metres, on the Hungry Creek property. In 2022, DLP Resources Inc. conducted a further program of prospecting and rock sampling on the property. In 2024 DLP Resources Inc. conducted a regional reconnaissance prospecting program on the property.
