The DAY TRIP prospect is located approximately 9.5 kilometres east of Cloud-Drifter Peak, 7 kilometres west of the south end Tatlayoko Lake, 49 kilometres south of the community of Tatla Lake on Highway 20, and 181 kilometres southwest of Williams Lake, B.C.
The Day Trip zone is a gossan formed from hornfels alteration of sedimentary rocks belonging to the Lower Cretaceous Cloud Drifter Formation intruded by a biotite monzonite intrusion of the Late Cretaceous to Paleocene Bendor Suite. The area is situated on flat to low angled slopes covered in gossanous scree and talus approximately 5 kilometres to the southeast of the Cloud Drifter zone (see MINFILE 092N 095) in an area with no documented historical exploration. Prospecting examined a 70- by 90-metre zone of extensive gold bearing sulphide-cement breccias in float with grades up to 20.1 grams per tonne gold (Press Release Kingfisher Metals Corp., May 13, 2021).
The Day Trip target is situated between two interpreted fault splays of the regional Ottarasko Fault. High-density intrusive-hosted veins up to 2 metres in width occur over an area of about 100 metres by 400 metres. Quartz veins from this area returned grades from below detection limit to 6.7 grams per tonne gold (Press Release Kingfisher Metals Corp., January 12, 2022). Adjacent to the intrusion is a 70- by 90-metre area of arsenopyrite-cement breccia in subcrop. Approximately 20 per cent of the subcrop material in this area consists of arsenopyrite-cement breccia with grades from 3.4 to 20.1 grams per tonne gold. Talus fine sampling in 2020 outlined a broad area of gold anomalism coincident with areas of gold in outcrop and subcrop that graded up to 8.4 grams per tonne gold over the subcrop breccia area (Press Release Kingfisher Metals Corp., January 12, 2022, and Assessment Report 39459). Rock and talus fine geochemistry both yield a strong multi-element signature of arsenic, silver, copper, bismuth, tellurium, and lead.
Geochemical sampling in 2021 on the Day Trip zone covered an area of about 400 metres by 450 metres. The 2021 talus fine sampling increased the footprint of anomalous (greater than 100 parts per billion) gold-in-talus fines to an area measuring about 50 by 100 metres in 2020 to about 100 metres by 450 metres in 2021. Talus fines in 2021 graded up to 1.0 gram per tonne gold (Press Release Kingfisher Metals Corp., January 12, 2022). The highest grade rock sample (S4047752) from a quartz monzonite float collected in 2021 contained 0.82 gram per tonne gold, 16.8 grams per tonne silver and 0.34 per cent copper.
The Rotary Air Blast (RAB) drill program in 2022 exposed broad zones of anomalous mineralization with highlights such as a 4.57 metre intersection in hole GRR-22-026 returning values of 2.06 grams per tonne gold from a strongly oxidized sheeted vein target in quartz-rich monzonite.
WORK HISTORY
The Day Trip zone was discovered in 2020 by prospecting. In 2021 and 2022, work by Kingfisher Metals Corp. at the Day Trip zone included 8.9 line-kilometres of IP-resistivity surveying over the Day Trip zone. Results show that IP-resistivity anomalies lie deeper than previous drilling efforts. Regional efforts in 2022 also included prospecting, hand trenching and rock sampling in the Day Trip area. This led to the discovery of the DT West showing where quartz-arsenopyrite veining was exposed by hand trenches along a 30 metre strike length approximately 2 kilometres west of Day Trip. RAB (Rotary Air Blast) drilling over the Day Trip zone in 2022 totaled 1575 metres in 32 holes. In addition, structural interpretations were made from airborne data collected in 2020 over the large Goldrange project area.