The WILKINS showing is located 1 kilometre northeast of Roger Lake, 6 kilometres northwest of the village of Eagle Creek on Canim Lake. It is on the Canim West property between the July showing (092P 112) and Beer showing (092P 125). The area is part of the larger, currently explored Iron Lake property, which also includes the Island Lake (092P 132) prospect and the Cate (092P 182) and Lisa (092P 222) showings.

Significant copper and gold values have been obtained from two altered fractured zones 50 metres apart. The showings occur within an area of intrusive breccias up to 50 metres wide. Eight breccias have been mapped over an area about 1.0 kilometre by 0.5 kilometres. The breccias contain a variety of clasts within a leucocratic diorite belonging to the Triassic to Jurassic Takomkane Batholith. Late phase felsic dikes and plugs are also present in the area.

In 2014, rock sampling in the area produced assays of anomalous gold, silver and copper from float and outcrop samples. One sample of angular float collected in 2014, a short distance northwest of the Wilkins showing, assayed 3.66 grams per tonne gold, 4.44 grams per tonne silver and 0.18 per cent copper. The rock consisted of weakly silicified and gossanous, medium-grained, well-fractured diorite with mafic minerals completely altered to epidote and chlorite. Minor potassium feldspar occurs on fractures and malachite and disseminated chalcopyrite visible.

The Wilkins zone was confirmed in outcrop in 2021 following further geological mapping and rock sampling. A composite grab (A001527) from a fracture zone in diorite outcrop assayed 0.2 per cent copper Cu and 0.09 gram per tonne gold, while a nearby boulder displaced by road construction assayed greater than 1 per cent copper and 3.82 grams per tonne gold.

WORK HISTORY

F.R. Gatchalian staked the July claims in July 1972 and conducted geological mapping, soil geochemical sampling and a ground magnetic survey. During this work, claim posts and flagging were found that indicated that the area had been staked and worked as the RL group in 1969 by Royal Canadian Ventures, and as the Nod group by Texas Gulf Sulfur in 1971. The Beer showing, 1300 metres east of the Wilkins showing had been covered by a number of claims and trenched by Aragon Exploration Limited in 1970. Soil and rock sampling and induced polarization/magnetometer surveys in the 1970s through early 1980s determined copper-in-soil and IP/mag anomalies in the area extending from Roger Lake northeast to Judy and Beverly lakes (Assessment Reports 4265, 4266).

In 2014, the Canim West property was acquired by Tech-X Resources Inc. Their initial exploration program involved geological and alteration mapping and rock sampling of altered and/or mineralized showings. A soil geochemistry grid was conducted over the central portion of the claims. This work has outlined copper, silver and gold in soil anomalies (Assessment Report 35201). Subsequently, the soil grid was expanded to the east in 2019 (Assessment Report 38651).

Work completed by Tech-X Resources in 2021 included an airborne EM-Mag survey, a LiDAR survey, hand trenching, rock sampling, geological mapping and petrography across several areas of the Iron Lake property (Assessment Report 39870). In 2022, Tech-X Resources and Eastfield Resources completed 48.3 line kilometres of induced polarization on their Iron Lake property, including the Wilkins area (Assessment Report 40980).