The Hicks occurrence lies 2 kilometres west of the Scottie Gold deposit (104B 034). It is hosted by volcaniclastic rocks of the middle member of the Lower Jurassic Unuk River Formation of the Hazelton Group. These rocks consist of green andesitic breccia and conglomerate, with thin intercalated volcanic sandstones and tuffaceous bands. The Lower Jurassic Summit Lake Stock, comprised of hornblende quartz monzonite and/or hornblende granodiorite, lies to the north.
A series of sub-parallel narrow veins cut massive andesitic ash tuffs and lapilli tuffs. The veins are vertical, strike 100 degrees, range up to a maximum of 8 centimetres thick, and are composed of massive chocolate-brown coarse-grained sphalerite, with minor associated galena, pyrite, and pyrrhotite. Abundant float boulders of massive pyrrhotite are scattered around in the outcrop area, which is adjacent to a rapidly retreating thin icesheet. No assays were reported.
Later work, in 2019 and 2020, identified the Domino zone (Astral, Avalon, Gloria, Moondance and Mystic subzones) in approximately the same area of the Hicks occurrence. The Domino zone consists of shear veins hosted within mostly felsic volcaniclastic rocks lying immediately beneath and west of the unconformable contact between Stuhini and Hazelton groups. Individual veins are generally less than 1 metre wide, occur within one of three steeply dipping and northeast- to southwest-striking shear structures, and locally include small, 0.1- to 1.0-metre-wide, pods of auriferous massive sulphide that extend for 1 to 10 metres in length. A zone of alteration, deformation, and weak sulphide mineralization provides a much broader footprint that has been traced at surface over a strike length of 600 metres, a width of 400 metres, and a vertical extent of greater than 100 metres. Pyrrhotite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, molybdenite, sphalerite and galena are spatially associated with elevated gold and silver values, as well as chlorite, sericite and silica alteration.
Work History
In 2012, Eilat Resources Inc completed an airborne magnetic survey on their Summit Lake property. The survey, carried out, covered a total of 332.5-line kilometres. It was flown at 150 metre line spacing in a north-south flight direction. This survey covered the area of the Hicks showing.
In 2016, Triangle Exploration Limited (optionee from Eilat Explorations) completed a 566-kilometre airborne magnetic and radiometric survey which extends east, north and south from the eastern shore of Summit Lake to the eastern boundary of Eilat Exploration's 2012 airborne survey. The 2016 survey is a continuation of the airborne survey flown for Eilat Exploration in 2012 (Assessment Report 33511). Data collected from the 2016 Summit Lake survey block were merged with data collected in 2012 (Assessment Report 36318). The combined data covers 10 mineral occurrences documented in MINFILE: Scottie Gold (104B 034), St. Eugene (104B 036), Scottie North (104B 074), Blueberry (104B 133), Hicks (104B 139), Summit 5 (104B 436), Summit Gossan (104B 648), Summit Nunatak (104B 649), Glacier Edge (104B 650).
During 2018 through 2020, Scottie Resources Corp. completed programs of rock and auger (tailings) sampling, airborne and ground geophysical surveys and diamond drilling on the Scottie Gold property. During this time, 390 samples were collected from the Domino zone; 59 samples yielded from 1 to 10 grams per tonne gold, 15 samples yielded greater than 10 grams per tonne gold with a maximum of 536 grams per tonne gold and drilling on the zone yielded intercepts of up to 4.2 grams per tonne gold over 7.97 metres in hole SR20-37 (Equity Exploration Consultants Ltd. [2021-06-07]: Technical Report on the Scottie Gold Mine Property, British Columbia, Canada).
