The Painted Bluff occurrence is located about 600 metres east of the eastern shore of Bluff Lake.

The occurrence area is underlain by Middle to Upper Triassic volcanics and sediments of the Cadwallader Group, intruded by quartz diorite of the Late Triassic Cadwallader plutonic suite. The area lies between two major northwest-striking faults, the Yalakom and Tchaikazan faults, along the northeastern margin of the Coast Plutonic Complex. A splay of the latter, the Niut fault, occurs just south of the area of interest (Geological Survey of Canada Open File 1163).

A mineralized sample was taken from a grey, hematite-stained rock outcrop, located about 600 metres east of the Roadcut showing (092N 070). The sample contained material from a 12-millimetre-wide quartz vein, within a 15-millimetre-wide shear cutting the outcrop, that hosted 2 to 3 per cent fine-grained pyrite and 1 to 2 per cent fine-grained chalcopyrite. Outcrop has a strongly siliceous groundmass and was reported to contain traces of bornite. The sample graded 0.76 per cent copper and 9.52 grams per tonne silver (Sample POI7, Assessment Report 38580). Rocks closer to Bluff Lake are reported to be andesites and agglomerates.

WORK HISTORY

In 2015, the Tchaikazan Resources Inc work program included prospecting in the West Butler Creek area (Assessment Report 35754). Fifteen samples, six grabs and nine chips, were collected for assay from gossanous outcrops exposed along the deeply incised cliff faces bounding West Butler Creek. In addition, a review of mineralized structures in the “Pretty Pile” area (Hayfield Bluffs (092N 071)), the Painted Bluffs (092N 081), and the Slide (092N 069) area was undertaken to more accurately locate and orient the local copper/gold and molybdenum mineralization.

The 2016 geochemical program Tchaikazan Resources Inc. consisted of the collection of 33 soil samples and produced a coincident copper/arsenic/antimony geochemical anomaly over the geophysical anomaly defined in the 2015 program (Assessment Report 36772). Mapping along the Hayfield Bluffs (BL7-3 (092N 071)) indicated a possible mineralized system in the vicinity of the Painted Bluff copper showing and diamond drill hole BL07-08 (Slide zone) (092N 069).

In 2019, rock geochemical and geological mapping was completed on the BLUFF, SOUTH BUTLER, BUTTS2, BLAKE S and BLAKE EXT claims by Tchaikazan Resources Inc. A total of 25 rocks were sampled of which 21 were sent for assay. Geologic mapping was carried out on 18 locations as the samples were collected. The program was successful in extending a copper-rich tourmaline breccia from its discovery outcrop to 500 metres to the north-west along a 330-to-340-degree trend along the Hayfield Bluffs. Sampling in the area of the Painted Bluff extended that mineralized zone some 150 metres to the south-east along a 135-degree trend. Also, 550 metres to the east of the Painted Bluff, the Slide zone (092N 069) sampling returned a 0.136 per cent copper, 22.9 grams per tonne lead, and 1.15 grams per tonne silver assay from outcrop that previously gave anomalous molybdenum values (Assessment Report 38580).

Refer to Roadcut (092N 070), Hayfield Bluffs (092N 071), Slide (092N 069), Newmac 1 (092N 055), Mac (092N 054), and Bu (092N 030) for related geological and work history information of the Bluff claims/property.