The Stik 4 occurrence, consisting of a silicified fracture zone cutting altered crystal tuff, is located 8 kilometres northeast of the confluence of Adoogacho Creek with the Stikine River and 15.0 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 4 showing is underlain by the Adoogacho Member of the Toodoggone Formation. Volcanics of the McClair Member of the Toodoggone Formation, the Tango Creek Formation of the Sustut Group and a biotite-hornblende diorite to gabbro intrusion are found surrounding the Stik 4 showing. On a regional scale, the Adoogacho Member is described as consisting of trachydacite ash flow tuffs, lapilli and finer tuffs, volcanic sandstone and conglomerate, and subvolcanic plugs (Bulletin 86). Where evident at the Stik 4 showing, the Adoogacho Member is comprised of a series of interbedded purple to grey crystal tuffs with rare purple agglomerate underlying the tuffs (Assessment Report 17237).

The Stik 4 showing consists of a north trending silicified fracture zone cutting crystal tuffs. No sulphides were observed within this zone but pyrite, chalcopyrite and galena-bearing quartz float was discovered further downslope to the north.

In 1987, several samples taken from this zone yielded anomalous silver. Sample GW-ST-9 analyzed 32.91 grams per tonne silver and 0.045 gram per tonne gold; and sample GW-ST-10 analyzed 4.62 grams per tonne silver and 0.014 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 17237, Map 2).

In 1988, an outcrop sample (DM-46) from a calcite veinlet in tuff with malachite and azurite assayed 2.48 grams per tonne gold and 29.0 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 18465). Also at this time, a sample (DM-65) of lithic tuff with trace limonite and malachite, located approximately 1 kilometre to the north east, assayed 22.0 grams per tonne silver, while two float samples (WM-50 and -48) from the same area yielded 0.204 and 0.032 gram per tonne gold with 37.0 and 97.0 grams per tonne silver, respectively (Assessment Report 18465). Three samples (CS-43 to CS-45) from a 1.75 metres wide zone of quartz breccia with trace pyrite, located approximately 1.3 kilometres to the south, yielded 0.394, 0.238 and 0.352 gram per tonne gold, respectively (Assessment Report 18465).

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).