The Wigwam showing occurs on Sheep Mountain, the area of which represents a unique geological setting with large complex structural zones, huge alteration, and abundant sulphide mineralization. It is host to a number of mineralized quartz/calcite/carbonate veins that contain chalcopyrite, malachite, azurite, galena, sphalerite, hematite, limonite, pyrite and scorodite. Some of these veins have been explored by adits and trenching. The veins typically are quartz with anchorite and calcite along the margins. The largest vein was over 2 meters wide. Sulphide mineralization is hosted by the quartz with only minor pyrite and limonite mineralization in the calcite/anchorite gangue. The majority of the veins occur along NE trending structures and are hosted by a thick unit of diabase, thought to be sills. The diabase may be a fine-grained phase of the syenite porphyry. Other syenites in the region have been dated as Cretaceous so this may be a probable age. The dikes were quite carbonate, hematite, manganese, epidote, potassic(?), quartz and limonite altered.

A 1-metre-wide quartz vein trending 60 degrees in diorite/diabase hosts chalcopyrite, galena and pyrite. A well-developed adit had been driven on the vein. Samples 46 and 47 (collected in 2007) graded a minimum of 1 per cent copper (Assessment Report 29552). Values in gold were nil.

Strata in the Sheep Mountain area changes attitude across the Elk River from gentle east dips on the east side to near vertical dips along the west side, indicating a major fault system. A major alteration zone, white clay (argillic/sericitic alteration), occurs along some of the structural breaks. The altered zone is at least one kilometer long and 500 metres wide, following a portion of the Elk River canyon.

The Wigwam 1 claim (2000 to 2007) contained 3 MINFILE-documented mineral occurrences, Ramshorn (082GSW010), Jennie (082GSW011), and Leah (082GSW029). The Elko 1-8 claim (1999) to the northeast contained the Silver King showing (082GSW028). The Sweet May showing (082GSW012) was located about 1 kilometre south of the southeast corner of the Wigwam 1.

WORK HISTORY

In 2007, a prospecting and rock geochemistry program was conducted on mineral tenures 372755, 555975, 555976, 555977, 556361, and 557771, near the confluence of the Wigwam and Elk rivers on behalf of owners Robert Morris and Craig Kennedy (Assessment Report 29552). All of the MINFILE occurrences mentioned above, including Ramshorn, Jennie, Sweet May, Leah, and Silver King were covered by these tenures, also known as the Wigwam and Maxiwam (082GSW097) claims. Eight man-days were spent prospecting and collecting rock samples at Sheep Mountain. Over the course of the program 59 rock samples were collected in total.

Refer to Silver King (082GSW028) for further work history information.