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File Created: 16-Apr-1992 by David M. Melville (DMM)
Last Edit:  24-May-2023 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name FOX Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 094D079
Status Showing NTS Map 094D09W
Latitude 056º 42' 36'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 126º 15' 04'' Northing 6288480
Easting 668260
Commodities Copper Deposit Types L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Fox occurrence is located approximately 100 metres west of Wrede Creek and 6 kilometres south of Fleet Peak (Assessment Report 6369).

The regional geology is similar to that of the Shred occurrence (MINFILE 094D 111).

The Fox area is underlain by Upper Triassic Takla Group volcanic rocks represented by a volcaniclastic unit, a feldspar hornblende crystal tuff and a feldspar porphyry dike. The volcaniclastic unit consists of sandy limestone, fine-grained andesitic tuff, crystal tuff and agglomerate. The limestone bed strikes 140 degrees and dips 76 degrees to the east (Assessment Report 8213). The dike is a grey rhyodacite and the contacts with the crystal tuff unit are sheared and brecciated. The breccia fragments are deformed, chlorite altered and rimmed with pyrite (Assessment Report 8213). Ultramafic (pyroxenite-peridotite) to mafic (gabbro) intrusions are also present. Mineralization is described as three small, massive veins or lenses consisting of magnetite, pyrite, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite. The lenses or veins cut a serpentinized peridotite body (Assessment Report 6369).

In 2018-2019, the Little Phoenix Property of Serengeti conducted an aeromagnetic survey which outlined two northwesterly trending magnetic highs in the northern portion of their Fleet claim block. These anomalies can be correlated with intruding ultramafic dykes which are known to outcrop in the area. Mineralization in the vicinity consists of massive pyrite and chalcopyrite lenses within sheared peridotite (Shred showing), small lenses and veins consisting of massive magnetite, pyrite, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite which cut into serpentinized peridotite (Fox showing), and fine grained dacitic lapilli tuff with associated pyrite and pyrrhotite (Hound showing). A northwesterly trending low appears between these highs and is found in an area of known structural break and could indicate the presence of a fault structure.

WORK HISTORY

In 2007, Serengeti Resources Ltd. carried out a geophysical survey over the Fleet claims which included: airborne EM, magnetic, and radiometric surveys over 434 km. The radiometric survey highlighted an area of high potassic/low thorium count in the extreme north of the claim block which could be indicative of potassic alteration. A number of magnetic highs were also outlined which are generally indicative of intrusive bodies. The survey covered the following MINFILE showings: Wrede Creek (094D 009), QUYZVHX (094D 010), Wrede Creek Chromite (094D 026), Red (094D 034) (NIK (094D 109), Shred (094D 111), Fox (094D 156), Hound (094D 157), Hat (094D 158), Midas (094D 159), Fisher (094D 160), Inge (094D 161), Redgold (094D 162), Grapes (094D 163), 04PSC-94 (094D 186). All of these occurrences except Red, Hat, Midas, Grapes and O4PSC-94 were not included with the Serengeti reporting but are covered by the geophysical survey.

In 2008/2009, a limited induced polarization (IP) and magnetic survey was conducted on the Nik and the Fleet claims on behalf of Serengeti Resources Inc. Although the results on the Nik were complicated by the strike direction three zones of higher chargeability were observed generally trending northwesterly across the lines, while a wide zone trending in the same direction was detected on the Fleet (Airborne Magnetic Survey Maps (Fleet Project), Assessment Report 31136). The Midas occurrence and some of the headwaters of the creek were covered by the geophysics survey completed on the Fleet property.

In 2018 to 2019, Intact Gold Corp. held the Little Phoenix Property which covered the following mineral occurrences: Hound (094D 157), Fox (094D 156), Shred (094D 111), QUYZVHX (094D 010), Fisher (094D 160), and Inge (094D 161). Precision Geo Surveys Inc. completed a 349-kilometre magnetic airborne survey on behalf of Intact.

In 2021, Wedgemount Resources Corp. completed a program of geochemical (rock and soil) sampling and spectral analysis on the area surrounding area as the regionally extensive Cookie property.

See Shred (094D 111) for geological details of earlier work history.

Bibliography
EMPR EXPL 1977-E215; 1978-E243; 1979-264
GSC MAP 962A
GSC MEM 251, p. 62
GSC OF 342
GSC P 76-29
EMPR PFD 673272

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