The Goldylot occurrence is located just south of Lewis Creek, approximately 25 kilometres northeast of Kimberley. The area is underlain by rocks of the Helikian Fort Steele Formation, Purcell Supergroup, consisting primarily of quartzite and siltstone. Mesoproterozoic gabbro dikes and sills intrude the stratigraphy.
The Goldylot occurrence consists of several old workings that include small trenches, shallow shafts, and one adit, all located immediately south of Lewis Creek. No recorded information on these workings is available.
The Goldylot prospect covers a portion of the Lewis Creek fault and the area immediately adjacent to the south. The zone appeared to be partially controlled by a northeast trending fault (“Goldylot fault”) that is thought to be a parallel splay of the Lewis Creek Fault. To the south of the Lewis Creek fault, there is a swarm of apparently flat-lying massive quartz veins exposed over a small area not exceeding a few tens of metres across. The veins locally contain significant (up to 20 per cent) amounts of fine to medium-grained pyrite, often oxidized and gouged. Rock grab sampling collected in 2002-2003 returned values to a maximum of 9.76 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 27366).
A vertical hole (JG-3-03) drilled to 120.5 metres on the Goldylot showing intersected Fort Steele quartzites and argillites intruded by two gabbro dikes. One sample (M304037) section, consisting of quartz vein with bands of pyrite parallel to vein contacts, graded 0.39 gram per tonne gold over 70 centimetres (Assessment Report 27366).
Soil sampling in 2003 revealed several relatively small (up to several tens of meters across) gold-copper-lead soil anomalies which are discontinuous and, probably, correspond to small individual quartz veins outcropped to surface. Some of the anomalies are very strong such as the anomaly covering the Goldylot showing which were as high as 38 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 27366).
WORK HISTORY
In 1970 Texas Gulf Sulfur staked a 32-unit claim block in the area and conducted geological mapping and took 75 soil samples (Assessment Report 3092).
In 1992, Inco Exploration staked a larger claim block called the ‘Lewis Creek Property’, including the area of the Goldylot occurrence. In 1993, Inco collected a total of 100 rock samples and 1216 soil samples from a soil grid that extended 3 kilometres west from Lazy Lake and roughly 4 kilometres south from Lazy Lake (Assessment Report 23115). At this time three "copper-bearing showings", the CR, Main, and Malachite were discovered, all close to the Lazy 19 occurrence (082GNW059), not far to the northeast of the Goldylot occurrence (Map 1, Assessment Report 23115).
In 1998, four 2 post mineral claims, Goldylot 1 to 4, were held by M.C. Kennedy who had staked them based on old workings developed on a north-northwest trending siliceous alteration zone hosting gold-bearing quartz vein (Assessment Report 25497). Mapping and rock sampling was carried out.
In 2003, owners Supergroup Holdings and Chapleau Resources Ltd collected a total of 113 grab and chip rock samples and 1604 soil samples on their Jackleg property, mainly on the Jacleg/Copper King and Goldylot prospects (Assessment Report 27366). A drill program included 3 diamond drill holes of NQ size, totaling 418.9 metres. One hole was completed on the Goldylot prospect and 2 on the Jacleg/Copper King prospect (082GNW135).
In 2004 the property was optioned to Ruby Red Resources of Calgary who completed additional soil surveys in the area and in 2007 drilled 4 holes in the Jackleg map area. JL-07-2 was drilled was drilled just over a kilometre to the northeast of the Goldylot occurrence (Assessment Report 29808).
In 2007, Ruby Red Resources also completed two small soil geochemistry grids; one covered a portion of the Lewis Creek canyon to evaluate copper mineralization over Lazy 32 showing (082GNW061) (Assessment Report 29808).
The showing and Jack Leg (Jacleg) property was explored as a part of the Dewdney Trail Gold project of PJX Resources Inc. Exploration on the property prior to its acquisition by the SG Spirit Gold Inc., and subsequent option to PJX in 2010 consisted of prospecting, follow-up soil geochemistry, rock geochemistry, trenching, data compilation into GIS format, and geological mapping.
In 2010 the property was optioned from Spirit Gold Inc (formerly Ruby Red Resources) by PJX Resources who proceeded to fly an airborne mag-em survey over the south-western portion of the Jacleg property. The survey produced a series of magnetic anomalies which appear to be aligned in a northerly trend. Some of these magnetic anomalies were spatially associated with known gold mineralization in outcrop.
In 2011, PJX Resources Inc. conducted geological mapping, prospecting, and rock sampling, resulting in the collection of 660 rock samples. These samples were collected from seven map areas on their Dewdney Trail property called Jacleg, Lewis Creek, Trail Creek, Upper Tackle Creek, Tackle Creek, Upper Spirit Creek, and M1 (Figure 1, Assessment Report 32868). Rock samples were collected 250 metres to the southeast just across Lewis Creek from the Lazy 32 showing.
In early 2012 field season PJX Resources conducted a program consisting of geological mapping, prospecting, and rock sampling (55 samples) on the Jacleg block (Assessment Report 33700). Work was completed primarily in the Wolf Creek area located in the north central portion of the property.
In 2016 to 2019, PJX Resources Inc. conducted geological mapping and rock geochemistry sampling on the Dewdney Trail Property, including the Jackleg area (Assessment Reports 36649, 38859).
Refer to the Jacleg (082GNW135), Lazy 19 (082GNW059), and Lazy 32 (082GNW061) showings for related geological and work history detail.
