The Fred 3 occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 1920 metres on a north-south–trending ridge, approximately 6.9 kilometres southeast of the junction of the Stikine and Chukachida rivers.

The area is situated within a Mesozoic volcanic arc assemblage that lies along the eastern margin of the Intermontane Belt, a northwest-trending belt of Paleozoic to Neogene 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 (Stuhini) Group andesite flows and pyroclastic rocks. Takla volcanics have been intruded by the Lower Jurassic granodiorite to quartz monzonite of the Black Lake Suite and are in turn unconformably overlain by or faulted against Lower Jurassic calc-alkaline volcanics of the Toodoggone Formation (Hazelton Group).

The dominant structures in the area are steeply dipping faults that 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.

Locally, numerous quartz-barite veins with minor galena and malachite staining occur over an area of approximately 25 metres in a mafic volcanic.

In 1988, four samples (DM-111 to -114) from the zone yielded from 0.126 to 0.436 gram per tonne gold with 4.9 to 90.0 grams per tonne silver, whereas two nearby float samples (DM-110 and -120) yielded 8.20 and 1.02 grams per tonne gold with 240.0 and 2.4 grams per tonne silver, respectively (Assessment Report 18465).

Work History

In 1986, Prolific Resources Ltd. completed a reconnaissance stream silt sampling program on the Stik 5 and Fred 1 claim. A brief reconnaissance geological mapping and prospecting program was carried out on these claims in 1987.

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).