The Anorak occurrence is located approximately 10 kilometres west of Aiken Lake and approximately 105 kilometres northwest of the community of Germansen Landing.

At the Anorak showing, malachite occurs on fractures at the contact between volcanic rock of the Upper Triassic Plughat Mountain Formation (Takla Group) and diorite of the Lower Cretaceous to Lower Jurassic Hogem Plutonic Suite. At the contact, Takla rocks are foliated and the diorite is sheared. The diorite contains from 1 to 5 per cent pyrite and can be very siliceous.

Work History

In 1982 and 1983, Getty Canadian Metals Ltd. completed programs of geological mapping and geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling on the area as the Mes and Bear claim groups. A rock sample (21B0030R) from the occurrence area assayed 0.60 per cent copper and 0.24 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 11728).

The Link claim was staked by Rio Algom Exploration Inc. in early 1990 to acquire an area defined as anomalous for copper during a regional reconnaissance program in the mid-1960s. This area appears to cover the Anorak showing and Mes (Link) showing (MINFILE 094C 040). Prospecting and contour soil sampling was carried out on the central area of the claim. The purpose of this work was to determine if the anomalous copper-in-silt was derived from porphyry-type copper and gold mineralization.

In 2002, Northgate Minerals Corp. completed a 25.0 line-kilometre airborne magnetic and electromagnetic survey on the area as the Croy 5 claim.