The Kit Kat 5 occurrence is located west of Mount Hooper, 27 kilometres southeast of Port Alberni.
The area is underlain mainly by basalt, pillowed basalt, basaltic tuff and agglomerate of the Devonian Duck Lake Formation (Sicker Group) which have been intruded by Early to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite.
Locally, disseminated and rare podiform pyrite with epidote, chlorite and massive magnetite occur in a sheared medium- grained basaltic tuff or flow. Fracture surfaces are gossanally stained with lesser amounts of malachite and azurite staining.
A sample from a pod of pyrite in hornblendite assayed 0.14 per cent copper, 0.1 per cent nickel, 1.2 grams per tonne palladium and 0.027 grams per tonne platinum. Another grab sample assayed 1.65 grams per tonne platinum, 4.85 grams per tonne palladium, 2.2 grams per tonne silver, 0.655 per cent copper and 0.2 per cent nickel. A third grab sample assayed 1.65 grams per tonne platinum, 4.85 grams per tonne palladium, 2.2 grams per tonne silver, 0.655 per cent copper and 0.2 per cent nickel (Assessment Report 13945).
A sample from gouge material contianing malachite and azurite, 250 metres to the north, assayed 0.67 per cent copper (Assessment Report 13945). The showing is likely at the northern extension of the Main showing of the Columbia occurrence (092F 339).
In 2017, three samples (1735, 1737 and 1738) assayed 2.95, 2.93 and 2.06 per cent copper, respectively, with values up to 8.8 grams per tonne silver, 0.595 per cent nickel, 0.097 per cent cobalt, 0.041 per cent chromium, 4.51 grams per tonne platinum and 13.75 grams per tonne palladium (MacIntyre, D. (2017-10-12): Amended Technical Report - Columbia Shear Mineral Property).
Work History
The Kitkat showings were first explored by Gunnex Ltd. between 1963 and 1966. This work involved regional silt sampling and prospecting. In 1985 and 1986, JBL Resources completed programs of geological mapping, geochemical sampling, prospecting and VLF-EM and magnetometer surveys. This work identified the five Kit Kat occurrences: Kitkat (MINFILE 092F 282), Kitkat 2 (MINFILE 092F 284), Kitkat 3 (MINFILE 092F 149), Kitkat 4 (MINFILE 092F 218), Kit Kat 5 (MINFILE 092F 461).
In 2000, the Kitkat 5 claim was prospected by E. Specogna. This work extended the main zone of mineralization and identified a new area, exposed for 2 metres by 2 metres, of copper, nickel, cobalt and platinum group elements mineralization, approximately 400 metres to the south west of the main showing. Grab samples from the new showing assayed up to 0.659 per cent copper, 6.7 grams per tonne silver, 0.048 per cent nickel and 0.100 per cent cobalt with anomalous platinum and palladium values (Assessment Report 26280).
In 2011, Gold Ridge Explorations Inc. completed a regional program of litho-geochemical sampling, helicopter-borne versatile time domain electromagnetic (VTEM) and aeromagnetic geophysical surveys, totalling 34 square kilometres, on the area as the Columbia Shear property. In 2012 and 2013, Golden Peak Minerals Inc. completed programs of geological mapping, geochemical (soil, rock and silt) sampling and a 24.35 line-kilometre ground magnetometer survey on the area. In 2017, New Point Exploration Corp. completed a program of rock, soil, silt and moss mat sampling on the area as the Columbia Shear property.
