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File Created: 23-Feb-2001 by Ron McMillan (RHM)
Last Edit:  23-Feb-2001 by Ron McMillan (RHM)

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Name CENTRAL GOLDEN LOON VI AREA, TH-4, GOLDEN LOON MONTIGNY WEST, GOLDEN LOON 6 Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 092P049
Status Showing NTS Map 092P08W
Latitude 051º 25' 55'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 20' 00'' Northing 5701234
Easting 685361
Commodities Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper Deposit Types L02 : Porphyry-related Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel, Harper Ranch
Capsule Geology

The Central Golden Loon VI Area is located in the central part of the Golden Loon 6 claim, 9 kilometres west of Little Fort. Fieldwork 2000 (pages 21 and 25) refers to the occurrence as Location Th-4. Good quality logging and bush roads provide access to the property.

A zone of silicified and quartz-veined granodiorite to monzonite subcrop and float, covering an area of approximately 500 metres north-south by 400 metres east-west, yielded numerous gold values in the 100 to 600 ppb range (Assessment Report 22818). Sample 3808, a granodiorite cut by quartz veins with 30 centimetre alteration envelopes, yielded values of 2.0 grams per tonne gold, 27.4 grams per tonne silver, 0.56 per cent lead and 1106 ppm copper (Assessment Report 22818). The vein quartz contained significant pyrite, chalcopyrite and 1-2 per cent galena. Assessment Report 22818 recognizes similarities in the style of mineralization to the Golden Loon High Grade and Low Grade zones (092P 141 and 119) in the Dum Lake area - both areas are associated with a major northeast trending fracture zone which crosses the Golden Loon property.

Hostrocks are granodioritic to monzonitic rocks of the Triassic to Jurassic Thuya batholith, which consists of granodiorite, diorite and monzodiorite. The occurrence is close to the contact with dioritic rocks of the Triassic to Jurassic Dum Lake Intrusive Complex which consists of a mafic portion composed of diorite, gabbro, microdiorite and intrusion breccia, and an ultramafic portion composed of dunite, wehrlite, pyroxenite and serpentine. The Dum Lake Intrusive Complex is believed to be an Alaskan-type intrusive complex (Fieldwork 2000).

The earliest record of prospecting in the area dates from the 1920s when placer gold was recovered from the Eakin Creek Placer (092P 055). In 1967, Noranda Exploration Company (Assessment Report 1051) completed a soil sampling survey over the Kira claims after obtaining anomalous results in a reconnaissance stream sediment sampling program. The program outlined zones of anomalous copper and nickel. In 1973, Rio Tinto Canadian Exploration Limited completed another soil geochemical sampling program on the Dum Claim Group (Assessment Report 4689), outlining copper, zinc and lead anomalies west of Dum Lake. Teck Corporation reportedly (Assessment Reports 14237, 15870) staked the Minerva Group in 1980-81 on the west side of the Golden Loon Property and undertook a magnetometer survey and a soil geochemical survey, obtaining several silver anomalies. In 1984, The Golden Loon Claims were staked by Barnes Creek Minerals and a prospecting program undertaken (Assessment Report 14237). In 1985, additional prospecting was undertaken and magnetometer, VLF-EM and soil geochemical surveys completed (Assessment Reports 14920 and 15937). In 1987, Mineta Resources completed a program (Assessment Report 17342) which included soil geochemical surveys (548 samples), linecutting (34.6 kilometres), lithogeochemistry (18 samples), and stream sediment geochemical sampling (70 samples) and located some high grade float boulders as well as outlined some gold-in-soil geochemical anomalies. In 1988, Mineta completed 78.2 kilometres of linecutting, 61.0 kilometres of VLF-EM and magnetometer surveying and collected 1571 soil geochemical samples (Assessment Reports 18802 and 21109). In 1989, Mineta completed 25.0 kilometres of VLF-EM and magnetometer surveying, as well as soil geochemical (556 samples) and lithogeochemical (20 samples) surveys (Assessment Report 20029). In 1990, the property was optioned to Corona Corporation and an extensive program (Assessment Report 21014) of prospecting, geological mapping, soil geochemical sampling (637 samples) and geophysical surveys (25 kilometres of magnetometer and VLF-EM), trenching and diamond drilling (691 metres in 7 holes) was carried out. In 1992, Placer Dome Limited optioned the property, focusing on the porphyry copper-gold potential of the western portion of the property (Assessment Report 22818) and completed 20.0 kilometres of grid preparation, geological mapping and soil geochemical surveying (1083 samples). In 1996, Meteor Minerals Incorporated completed a program of geochemical soil sampling to test the potential of the enzyme leach technique in tracing mineralized zones in areas of extensive overburden (Assessment Report 24883). In 1997, Meteor completed a three-hole (393 metres) diamond drill program on the Golden Loon High Grade Zone (092P 141). In 1999, Tilava Mining Corporation completed a program of lithogeochemical sampling (150 samples) on ultramafic rocks on the property and detected significant platinum values (Assessment Report 26100). In 2000, the property was optioned by Case Gold Mines Limited (George Cross News Letters #191,#216, 2000) and VLF-EM, magnetometer, induced polarization and soil geochemical (119 samples) surveys completed.

Bibliography
EMPR FIELDWORK *2000, pp. 20-22
GSC MAP 1278A
GSC MEM 363
GCNL #234(Dec.7), 1999; #154(Aug.11), #191(Oct.5), #216(Nov.10), 2000

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