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File Created: 02-Feb-2025 by Del Ferguson (DF)
Last Edit:  04-Feb-2025 by Del Ferguson (DF)

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NMI
Name KRONA Mining Division Cariboo, Omineca
BCGS Map 093F004
Status Showing NTS Map 093F03W
Latitude 053º 02' 11'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 14' 55'' Northing 5878688
Easting 349228
Commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The KRONA showing is located in the Fawnie Creek map area, between Wolf Lake to the southeast and Moose Lake to the northwest, approximately 64 air-kilometres north of the community of Anaheim Lake and 190 kilometres southwest of Prince George, B.C.

The occurrence is in the southern margin of the Nechako Uplift, a northeast trending block of volcaniclastic and sedimentary rocks of the Lower to Middle Jurassic Hazelton Group and the Upper Jurassic Bowser Lake Group. These rocks are intruded by quartz monzonite, granodiorite and granite of the Upper Jurassic Laidman Batholith and granodiorite of the Blackwater Pluton. Eocene volcanic rocks of the Ootsa Lake and Endako groups locally overlie the older rocks. Feldspar porphyry dikes outcrop locally.

Sulphide mineralization occurs as pyrite disseminations throughout the mudstones, volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks and in narrow quartz veins and breccia along steeply dipping fractures. Quartz veins containing minor galena, sphalerite and arsenopyrite occur proximal to rhyolitic dikes and brecciated zones.

2021 Exploration on Gold Crown Resources' Krona property found several new mineral showings in an area approximately 2 kilometres northwest of Wolf Lake. The Krona showing consists of rock samples taken at a roadside quarry at Kilometre 174 on the Kluskus road. Contacts between granodiorite, siltstone and andesite are exposed on quarry faces and a 2 to 3 metre wide rhyolite dike and associated quartz veining and breccia intrude the volcanic rocks. Sample 3822271 of a quartz carbonate vein with narrow veinlets of galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite and pyrite returned values of 0.02 gram per tonne gold, 18.8 grams per tonne silver, 1.78 per cent lead and 1.15 per cent zinc. Approximately 700 metres to the east of the quarry, samples of boulders containing similar mineralization assayed up to 1.47 grams per tonne gold, 313 grams per tonne silver and anomalous arsenic, bismuth, lead, antimony, tellurium and zinc. A further 600 metres east, a dacite porphyry boulder with malachite staining and pyrite on fractures returned 0.45 gram per tonne gold, 68.9 grams per tonne silver and 1.26 per cent copper (Assessment Report 40005).

WORK HISTORY

Following the release of BC EMPR regional lake and till sampling results, Hudson Bay Exploration & Development Co. Ltd. ran programs of prospecting and soil contour and grid sampling on their Naglico property in 1994 and 1995.

In 2011 and 2012, Amarc Resources Ltd. conducted airborne electromagnetic, resistivity and magnetic surveys and regional soil geochemical programs on their Galileo project area.

In 2021, Gold Crown Resources Inc. completed initial prospecting, geological mapping, soil and rock sampling as well as small ground magnetometer and drone magnetometer surveys, resulting in the discovery of several new mineral occurrences northwest of Wolf Lake.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 23672, 24530, 32196, 32968, 33799, *40005
EMPR 1994-1, p.p. 15-26, 1977-2
EMPR OF 1994-2
GEOSCIENCE BC RPT 2006-4, 2016-1, 2018-12
GEOSCIENCE BC MAP 2017-06-01

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