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File Created: 19-May-2015 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  28-Jun-2019 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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Name STARS, ROAD, COPPER STAR, CHISHOLM LAKE, LUND & THOMPSON, TANA Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 093L024
Status Prospect NTS Map 093L03W
Latitude 054º 13' 57'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 127º 15' 06'' Northing 6010800
Easting 613950
Commodities Copper, Molybdenum, Gold, Silver Deposit Types L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Stars project area is located about 42 kilometres southwest of the community of Houston. The project area is low elevation, gentle topography, and is accessible by all-season main line resource roads.

The Road showing is underlain mainly by volcanic rocks of the Lower Jurassic Telkwa Formation (Hazelton Group). Stocks consisting of feldspar porphyry of the Late Cretaceous Bulkley Plutonic Suite intrude the stratigraphy.

The showing area consists of intensely silicified and hornfelsed volcaniclastic rocks that are cut by several narrow grey to pink, variably altered porphyritic dikes. The silicified volcaniclastic rocks typically carry 1 to 3 per cent pyrite as disseminations with traces of chalcopyrite, while the hornfelsed volcaniclastic rocks can contain 3-5 per cent pyrite as disseminations and wispy bands, with traces of chalcopyrite.

The Road showing is exposed in a borrow pit that has been partially cleared of debris to further expose the mineralization. Immediately west is an exposure of propylitically altered and mineralized granodiorite. Three main styles of sulphide mineralization have been reported: finely disseminated chalcopyrite and bornite within and proximal to mafic minerals (biotite and hornblende) and primarily associated with the granodiorite intrusion; chalcopyrite and/or molybdenite-healed fractures and narrow veinlets proximal to porphyritic dike-volcanic contacts; and, locally disseminated and massive chalcopyrite/bornite/chalcocite veinlets within silicified and hornfelsed volcanics (Assessment Reports 26893 and 27625). Results from drilling a chargeability anomaly near the Road showing included a 122.88 metre interval in hole CS-07 that averaged 0.26 per cent copper (Assessment Report 26893).

In 2008, Lowprofile Ventures conducted property-scale bedrock mapping and rock sampling plus detailed mapping and channel sampling of the Road showing. Channel sampling of the Road showing produced a continuous 20-metre sample that averaged 0.23 per cent copper and 0.032 gram per tonne gold and spotty molybdenum (Assessment Report 30239).

ML Gold Corp. released results from the final three holes of their 2018 diamond drilling program on the Stars project. Porphyry copper mineralization has now been intersected in holes 014, 015 and 016 (DD18SS014 to DD18SS016). Well developed copper mineralization discovered at the Stars project has a mineralized strike length of greater than 400 metres, width of greater than 200 metres and depth of greater than 350 metres and remains open in all directions. Drillhole DD18SS014 intersected a 64.0 metre interval (57.0-121.0 metres) grading 0.34 per cent copper, 1.71 grams per tonne silver, 0.006 per cent molybdenum and 0.03 gram per tonne gold (Press Release - ML Gold Corp., January 9, 2019).

Refer to Copper Star (Discovery showing) (093L 326) for related geological and work history information.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *25922, *26626, *26893, *27625, 30239, 32419, 32809, 33445, 34545
EMPR EXPL *1998-26; *2000-6; 2001-1-9
EMPR OF 1991-1; 1994-14
PR REL Misty Mountain Gold Aug.*22, 2001; ML Gold Corp. Jan.*9, 2019

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