The Chris 1 Fr. (Bay 7 [C zone]) occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 1280 metres on an east-facing slope overlooking Adams Lake, approximately 3.3 kilometres southeast of the mouth of Samatosum Creek.
Regionally, the area is underlain by limestone, marble, calcareous sedimentary rock,s and greenschist metamorphic rocks of the Lower Cambrian Eagle Bay Assemblage. Bedding strikes approximately 130 degrees and dips 20 to 30 degrees northeast.
Locally, quartz stringers up to 10-centimetres wide host sporadic blebs of pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena, and possible tetrahedrite. The veins crosscut the foliation of a quartz-sericite-chlorite-mariposite schist near its contact with a crystal tuff.
In 1988, samples (5F-18 and -19) yielded values of up to 1.67 grams per tonne gold, 4.1 grams per tonne silver and 0.192 per cent copper (Assessment Report 18230).
Work History
During 1983 through 1988, Omni Resources Inc. completed programs of rock and soil sampling, geological mapping, ground and airborne electromagnetic surveys on the area as the Chris 1-2 and Chris 1 Fr. claims.
In 1987, Kidd Creek Mines Ltd. completed a program of soil sampling, geological mapping and a 70.0 line-kilometre combined ground electromagnetic and magnetic survey on the immediate area as the Bay claims. The following year, 15 trenches, totalling 3480 metres, were completed on the Bay claims.
In 1989, Falconbridge Ltd. completed nine diamond drill holes, totalling 1333.4 metres, on the Bay 7 claim.
In 1999, Eagle Plains Resources staked the Acacia property on the area. The following year, a program of rock, silt, and soil sampling was completed. In 2005, Amarc Resources Ltd. completed a program of geological mapping and lithogeochemical sampling on the area as the Sin 1-12 claims of the Max property.
During 2007 through 2012, Eagle Plains Resources Ltd. completed programs of, prospecting, geological mapping, geochemical (rock, silt, and soil) sampling and 738 line-kilometres of magnetic and radiometric surveys on the area as part of the Acacia property. In 2017, a further program of rock and soil sampling was completed on the property.
