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File Created: 03-Jun-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  06-Mar-2025 by Del Ferguson (DF)

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NMI
Name GOLDEN SKY, HEDGE HOG Mining Division Cariboo
BCGS Map 093H032
Status Showing NTS Map 093H05E
Latitude 053º 18' 47'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 121º 38' 58'' Northing 5907947
Easting 589977
Commodities Gold, Lead, Antimony, Zinc, Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Slide Mountain
Capsule Geology

The GOLDEN SKY occurrence is located in the western headwaters of Towkuh Creek, approximately 4 kilometres north of Ketcham Lake and 24 kilometres north-northwest of the community of Wells, B.C.

Regionally, the area is underlain by ophiolitic and basaltic volcanic rocks, chert and argillite of the Mississippian to Permian Antler Formation (Slide Mountain Terrane).

Locally, a mineralized shear zone, trending 070 degrees for over 25 metres, is hosted by altered layered sediments and volcanics (sheared rhyolite) which are cross-cut by narrow quartz veins. A gabbro dike cutting basalts is also reported in the area.

In 2013, a grab sample taken from a boxwork quartz vein in oxidized rhyolite with trace disseminated pyrite and pyrrhotite, assayed 1.51 grams per tonne gold, 1.37 per cent zinc, 0.48 per cent lead and 0.13 per cent antimony, while samples taken over 3 metres averaged 0.67 gram per tonne gold and 0.24 per cent lead (Laird, B.L. (2017-11-15): NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Hedge Hog Property).

The area has been explored by Eastfield Resources Ltd. at the north end of their Hedge Hog property, in conjunction with the Lottie (MINFILE 093H 156) placer and mineralized boulder occurrence area, approximately 8 kilometres south of Golden Sky. Eastfield conducted exploration programs on the Golden Sky occurrence area from 2013 to 2023, including prospecting, mapping, rock sampling and extensive soil grids. Soils showed scattered gold anomalies west of the showing and a single copper anomaly north of the showing.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *34781, 34782, 35281, 37760, 38643, 39710, 41220, 41585
EMPR BULL 38; 108 pp. 63-72
EMPR GEOFILE 2011-11
EMPR P 1983-1, pp. 305-313; 1998-1, pp. 13-1 - 13-12; 2003-1, pp. 77-96
GSC MEM 181, 421
GSC MAP 1424A
GSC SP P 45, pp. 415-432
CJES Vol 23, pp. 1047-1061
GEOL Vol 13, pp. 794-798
*Laird, B.L. (2017-11-15): NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Hedge Hog Property
Johnston, R.J. (2021-01-12): NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Hedge Hog Project, Cariboo Mining Division, B.C.
Johnston, R.J. (2021-06-14): NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Hedge Hog Project, Cariboo Mining Division, B.C.

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