The Norgate Creek Zone, a part of the Dragon property, is located on Norgate Creek, approximately 2.5 kilometres south of the main Dragon (MINFILE 092E 072) occurrence. It is situated approximately 21 kilometres west-northwest of the town of Gold River.

The area is underlain by north trending Pennsylvanian-Devonian Sicker Group stratigraphy consisting of altered felsic fragments interbedded with volcaniclastic sediments. Silicified and pyritized quartz-eye porphyry intrudes the sequence at lower elevations. The Sicker Group is unconformably overlain by Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation basalts. Jurassic Island Intrusions intrude the assemblage.

Locally, gold-bearing disseminated and massive lenses of galena sphalerite are exposed over widths of 3 to 20 metres in silicified and pyritic felsic tuff or chert. A few metres away, a gabbroic dike hosts PGE mineralization.

In 1996, grab samples from the zone assayed up to 1.92 per cent copper and 2.8 grams per tonne gold. The same year, diamond drilling assayed up to 0.19 per cent zinc, 370 parts per million lead and 120 parts per billion gold over 1.25 metres in DRT96-05 and 0.5 per cent zinc, 120 parts per million lead and 30 parts per billion gold over 1.0 metres in DR96-06 (Assessment Report 29189).

In 2014, a rock sample (E5396771) of volcanic hosting gossanous clots, quartz, garnet and pyrite, located at an elevation of approximately 500 metres on a north-facing slope and south of Norgate Creek, assayed 0.325 per cent copper (Assessment Report 34870).

Work History

In 1985 E. Specogna discovered massive sulphide float on the north side of Leighton Peak and staked the original Dragon claims. From 1992 to 1993, Noranda optioned the property and completed a multi-parameter airborne survey, in addition to, geological mapping and geochemical surveys. This work resulted in the discovery of the Falls and North showings, located approximately 30 metres apart.

In 1995, with support from the Explore BC Program, Westmin Resources Ltd. completed geological and rock, silt and soil geochemical surveys, and 722 metres of diamond drilling in three holes. This work helped define a mineralized horizon in Sicker Group stratigraphy, two massive sulphide lenses and numerous showings along the contacts between mafic tuffs and flows, and felsic tuffs and flows. Associated alteration includes pyrite and sericite, and sodium and calcium depletion or local enrichment (Explore B.C. Program 95/96). In 1996, Westmin continued exploration on the Dragon, including geochemical and geophysical surveys and diamond drilling on the Norgate Creek Zone.

In 2001, three diamond drill holes were completed on the Norgate Creek zone to test a gabbroic dike for platinum group elements. From 2005 to 2007, T.W. Ruks completed programs of geological mapping, prospecting and geochemical surveys on the property. In 2008, Paget Resources completed a program of airborne geophysics on the property. This work identified a new zone of widespread and thick jasper-magnetite exhalite mineralization hosted in horizons and lenses 4 kilometres to the east the Northgate Creek Zone.

In 2014 and 2015, Red Hut Metals Inc. completed programs of prospecting, geological mapping, geochemical (rock, soil and silt) sampling, and an airborne magnetic survey on the area as the Conuma property.