The Norgate Creek East occurrence, a part of the Dragon property, is located on Norgate Creek, approximately 4 kilometres south east of the main Dragon (MINFILE 092E 072) occurrence.
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/chert.
In 1996, grab samples from the zone assayed up to 1.25 per cent copper, 0.16 per cent zinc and 860 parts per billion gold (Assessment Report 29189). In 2001, diamond drilling of the gabbroic dike assayed values of up to 308 parts per billion gold, 330 parts per billion platinum, 3240 parts per billion palladium and 2230 parts per million copper (Assessment Report 26647).
In 1985, E. Specogna discovered massive sulphide float on the north side 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 B.C. 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 BC 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. In 2011, Tower Resources, on the behalf of Sidewinder Exploration, completed a program of geochemical sampling and prospecting. This work identified a new zone of wide spread and thick jasper-magnetite exhalite mineralization hosted in horizons and lenses 2 kilometres to the north west.
