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File Created: 03-Mar-2022 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  31-Jul-2023 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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NMI
Name YOKO, BUZZ Mining Division Clinton
BCGS Map 092N068
Status Showing NTS Map 092N10E
Latitude 051º 36' 46'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 30' 19'' Northing 5719055
Easting 395773
Commodities Gold, Silver, Copper Deposit Types L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
I01 : Au-quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Cadwallader
Capsule Geology

The Yoko occurrence is located about 3 kilometres south-southeast of Niut Mountain and about 43 kilometre southeast of the community of Kleena Kleene.

The area of the Yoko showing is underlain by a pluton of the Upper Triassic Cadwallader Plutonic Suite consisting of tonalite, quartz diorite and diorite.

The Yoko showing was located in 2015. A grab sample (K289036) taken from propylitically altered granodiorite contained weak, finely disseminated and minor fracture-hosted chalcopyrite. The sample was angular and initially described as near source, from a 3 by 3 metres exposure within or near an unnamed creek. This sample yielded 0.04 gram per tonne gold, 0.056 per cent copper, 0.79 gram per tonne silver, and 0.0072 per cent molybdenum (Assessment Report 35815). This sample was of interest because a float sample (B678051) consisting of milky white quartz vein had been found in the same creek in 2006 which assayed 4.96 grams per tonne gold and 3.9 grams per tonne silver; insignificant values of lead (144 ppm), zinc (187 ppm), and copper (53 ppm) from the same sample were also obtained (Assessment Report 29245). The source of the vein has not been determined, and so was not assigned a MINFILE number.

WORK HISTORY

In 2006, ATAC Resources Ltd. staked the Buzz property (12 mineral tenures) to cover the historically anomalous areas, with 4 previously documented MINFILE occurrences: Fly (092N 056), Niut Mountain (092N 020), Clipboard (092N 065), and Rusty (092N 044). ATAC performed a brief exploration program comprising prospecting and stream sediment and contour soil geochemical sampling; 117 soil, 16 stream sediment, and 25 rock samples were collected during the two-day field program (Assessment Report 29245).

In 2015, Strategic Metals Ltd collected a total of 28 rock samples on the Buzz property from the Fly, Downs, and Niut Mountain showings (Assessment Report 35815). The other showings were not visited in 2015.

Refer to Fly (092N 056) for related geological and work history details of the Buzz property, parts of which were previously held as the Fly and Harvey property.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 10303, 17200, 22358, *29245, 32233, 33014, *35815, 40017
EMPR EXPL 1981-257; 1988-C129
EMPR FIELDWORK 1994, pp.297-420
EMPR GEM 1972-309
EM GEOMAP 2002-03
EMPR OF 1995-7
GSC MAP 5-1968; 1713A
GSC OF 1163
GSC P 68-33

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