The Moose 2 occurrence is located on the lower southeast-facing slope of a ridge separating McClair and Moosehorn creeks, approximately 8 kilometres north of Kadah Lake.

The area lies within the Omineca-Cassiar Mountains at the southern end of the Toodoggone Gold Camp. The showing 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.

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. Takla volcanics have been intruded by the granodiorite to quartz monzonite Early Jurassic 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, as identified by diamond drilling, a silicified and brecciated rhyolite hosts narrow, 0.2- to 0.4-centimetre wide, quartz-chlorite veins and/or fractures with disseminated pyrite, magnetite, and trace chalcopyrite.

In 1979, resampling of 1974 drillcore from hole MM-1 yielded 0.165 per cent copper, 2.0 grams per tonne silver and 5.10 grams per tonne gold over 0.13 metre at 77.4 metres downhole (Assessment Report 8058).

In 1982, re-sampling of core from hole MM-1 yielded intercepts of 0.200 gram per tonne gold over 3.6 metres (50.5 to 54.1 metres down hole) and 0.305 gram per tonne gold over 4.0 metres (76.4 to 80.4 metres down hole) and 1.413 grams per tonne gold over 9.4 metres (110.6 to 120.4 metres down hole), including 4.08 grams per tonne gold over 1.8 metres (Assessment Report 10291).

Work History

The area has been explored in conjunction with the nearby Porphyry Pearl (MINFILE 094E 084) occurrence and a completed regional exploration history can be found there.