The Stik 1 occurrence, a quartz vein with up to 1 per cent disseminated pyrite and a quartz-barite zone in subcrop, is located 10.75 kilometres northeast of the confluence of Adoogacho Creek with the Stikine River and 16.25 kilometres northwest of the Alberts Hump prospect (094E 085). Smithers is 310 kilometres to the south.

The showing is situated within a Mesozoic volcanic arc assemblage which lies along the eastern margin of the Intermontane Belt, a northwest-trending belt of Paleozoic to Tertiary sediments, volcanics and intrusions bounded to the east by the Omineca Belt and to the west and southwest by the Sustut and Bowser basins.

Devonian-Permian Asitka Group crystalline limestones are the oldest rocks exposed in the region. They are commonly in thrust contact with Upper Triassic Takla Group andesite flows and pyroclastic rocks. These Takla rocks have been intruded by plutons and other bodies of the mainly granodiorite to quartz monzonite Early Jurassic Black Lake Suite and are in turn unconformably overlain by or faulted against Lower Jurassic calcalkaline volcanics of the Toodoggone Formation (Hazelton Group).

The dominant structures in the area are steeply dipping faults which define a prominent regional northwest structural fabric trending 140 to 170 degrees. In turn, high angle, northeast-striking faults (approximately 060 degrees) appear to truncate and displace northwest-striking faults. Collectively these faults form a boundary for variably rotated and tilted blocks underlain by monoclinal strata.

Mapping has indicated that the Stik 1 showing is underlain by the Adoogacho Member of the Toodoggone Formation, the Tango Creek Formation of the Cretaceous Sustut Group and a biotite-hornblende diorite to gabbro intrusion. Volcanics of the McClair Member of the Toodoggone Formation are found west the Stik 1 showing. Where evident at the Stik 1 showing, the Adoogacho Member is comprised of a series of interbedded purple to grey crystal tuffs and rare purple agglomerate underlying the tuffs (Assessment Report 17237). The Tango Creek Formation is comprised of polymictic conglomerate, sandstone, shale and carbonaceous mudstone.

The Stik 1 showing consists of a quartz vein with up to 1 per cent disseminated pyrite, and a zone of quartz-barite in subcrop. The quartz vein is 1.5 to 2.3 metres wide, strikes northwest and dips 43 degrees southwest. It has been traced along strike for 5 metres in broken subcrop and appears to be hosted by a secondary zone of shearing.

In 1985, a sample GW-ST-14 analyzed 6.21 grams per tonne silver, while a nearby sample (110915), taken 150 metres south of sample GW-ST-14, analyzed 5.2 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 17237). A float sample (GW-ST-12) of clay-altered and silicified andesite with disseminated pyrite assayed 8.81 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 14465).

A zone of quartz-barite sub-crop was found approximately 500 metres north of the quartz vein. A narrow zone is exposed on a cliff face and consists of two subparallel, southwest striking, quartz-barite veins with an overall exposed strike length of 20 metres. A crosscutting fault has displaced the veins near their southern ends. The system is traceable in quartz float and subcrop northward where it crops out in a second cliff. At this point the zone is 8 metres wide and consists of strongly silica and clay altered plagioclase porphyry hosting at least four subparallel quartz-barite veinlets cutting moderate to intense siliceous alteration. Fresh rock from this zone contained pyrite, up to 1 per cent galena and minor sphalerite. Along several silicified fractures, blebs of chalcopyrite were noted. From this point the zone is traceable for another 20 metres in float to the northwest. To date the best assay value reported from this zone is 1.03 grams per tonne silver and 0.014 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 17237).

Work History

In 1985, Delaware Resources Corp., on the behalf of Golden Rule Resources Ltd., completed a program prospecting, geological mapping and geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling on the Stik 1-5 claims. The following year a 110 line-kilometre airborne magnetic survey was completed on the Stik claims.

In 1987, on behalf of Delaware Resources Corp., a reconnaissance geological mapping and prospecting program was completed on the Stik 1-4 claims. A total of 10 rock samples were collected and analyzed for gold and silver.

In 1988, on behalf of Prolific Resources Ltd., a field exploration program was completed on their 'Toodoggone' properties comprising the Stik, Fred, Adoog, Doog, Jim and Mike claims. The objective of the program was to locate and evaluate the gold potential of epithermal quartz breccia systems on the claims. Exploration consisted of extensive prospecting, geological mapping, lithogeochemical sampling (355 rock), hand trenching (1 trench, 19 metres), and soil sampling (722).

In 2006, A. Birkeland collected five stream sediment samples (moss mat where possible) and ten rock chip samples from three areas on the Gaucho claims.