The Glacier 2 South occurrence is located on the south side of a small peak, in the head waters of Mariposite Creek, a tributary of Goldway Creek.
The area is underlain by Upper Triassicc Takla Group volcanics. These volcanics are bounded to the east by the north-trending Dortatelle fault and to the west by the Ingenika fault. Locally, the area is underlain by andesitic volcaniclastics, predominantly crystal and lapilli tuffs, interlayered with minor andesite flows. Minor feldspar porphyry dikes intrude the volcaniclastics. The general stratigraphic trend is north-south but this is complicated by intense polyphase deformation. The regional metamorphic grade is greenschist facies, locally overprinted by biotite grade thermal metamorphism.
Locally, a sheared dacite tuff hosts minor galena, chalcopyrite and trace pyrite. In 1995, a chip sample (RC0038) assayed 215.0 grams per tonne gold, 1060 grams per tonne silver and 0.059 per cent galena over 0.3 metre (Assessment Report 24138). Copper assays were negligible.
In 1985, BP Resources completed a program of geological mapping and rock, silt and soil sampling on the area as the Goldway claims.
In 1994, Hemlo Gold worked on the KPO, GV, Creek and TF zones and Maraposite Creek and Hemlo Drilling collected a total of 717 soils and 195 rocks samples and constructed 32.4 line kilometers of grid. 29.05-line kilometers of magnetometer surveying was later completed on the property. This work resulted in the definition of a 3 kilometre long and 500-1000 metre wide zone of quartz veined and fractured ankerite and sericite-altered, pyritized andesite tuffs semi-coincident with a greater than 100 parts per billion gold-in-soil anomaly (Assessment Report 23682). In 1995, Hemlo Gold Mines Inc. continued work on several of the properties described in 1994. Drilling was completed on the Soup and Granite Basin projects while further geological and geochemical surveys were conducted on the Darb and Mariposite projects. In 1995, Hemlo Gold reported that on the Mariposite property a total of 111 soils and 508 rocks were collected of which 142 rocks were applied for assessment (Assessment Report 24138, 24238).
Assay results reported to have been yielded “...from the 743 rock samples collected during the 1994/95 programs revealed that 70 samples returned results of greater than or equal to 0.5 gram per tonne gold...”, roughly 9 per cent of the total sample population (Assessment Report 24138, 24778).
In 1996 Battle Mountain Canada (formerly Hemlo Gold Mines lnc.) drilled 461 metres in 2 diamond drill holes on the Mariposite Property (Assessment Report 24778). The program was conducted in order to test amomalous gold in talus line anomalies associated with quark-quartz/calcite stockworking hosted by sericite-ankerite plus/minus biotite -altered andesite volcanics and epiclastics. The drill program incorporated geological and geochemical data collected during the 1994-1995 field seasons. Drill results are discussed in MINFILE Mariposite (094D 202).
The 2012 field work of Bernard Kreft focused on the area immediately surrounding the Johan MINFILE occurrence (Mariposite) , though the Dort property claims covered most of the historical showings west and south of Johanson Lake. A one-day helicopter supported field geochemistry and prospecting program was conducted. Five out of the eight silt samples collected returned gold values of less than 100 parts per billion gold. One rock sample obtained from a quartz vein returned 0.142 gram per tonne gold over 0.70 meters (Assessment 33552) The positive geochemical results continue to delineate the presence of gold mineralization in the area encompassing the Johan MINFILE occurrence. Further work on the DORT claims is warranted to constrain bedrock anomalies, and to provide direction for advancing exploration targets.
In 2013, Bernie Kreft conducted a program of soil and rock sampling in an effort to verify historical results. Work consisted of soil and rock sampling traverses conducted in the area of the Mariposite Creek (Johan (094D 137) and TF zones. A total of 67 soil samples and 14 rock samples.
