The KGE2 showing is situated on an upper ridge area south of King Creek, approximately 5 kilometres west of Unuk River. The location is approximately 59 kilometres southwest of Bell 2 Lodge on Highway 37, and 72 kilometres northwest of Stewart, B.C.
The KGE2 showing area is underlain by the contact of the Jurassic to Tertiary Hawilson Monzonite complex and the Upper Triassic, Stuhini Group, comprising marine sedimentary and volcanic rock and is at the northern end of a 4 kilometre long by 300 to 400 metre wide north-south trending corridor of Jurassic age (191 Ma) monzodiorite porphyry intrusions and subsequent breccias, referred to as the Cliff-Nina porphyry corridor. The KGE2 showing is often referred to as being within the Nina prospect.
A "chip sample" was taken of altered monzonitic rock containing veins of pyrite; sample KG-E-02 yielded 0.042 per cent copper and 0.67 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 37121). Medium-grained, monzodiorite porphyry with 2 to 8 millimetre phenocrysts of plagioclase and amphiboles (hornblende) is set in a microcrystalline groundmass. Two to five 5 centimetre thick quartz-massive sulfide (pyrite) veins, partially oxidized to hematite-jarusite, occur in an area of intense quartz-sericite-pyrite alteration within the monzodiorite.
In 2017, Metallis Resources carried out a comprehensive exploration and drilling program focused on porphyry copper-gold mineralization on its Kirkham property. Main targets included Cliff (Priam 1) (104B 620), shear vein gold in King (104B 522) and magmatic nickel-copper sulphide mineralization in Thunder North area (new MINFILE showings in 2019 (TNS12 and TNS24).
In 2018, Metallis conducted a technical review of the historical data, geological and alteration mapping and geochemical sampling along the Hawilson Monzonite in Cliff, Nina, Cole, Etta and King East areas of their Kirkham property. Following this program, Metallis drilled 12 diamond drillholes totaling 5094 metres including six drill holes in the Cliff target, one at KGE2, three in Cole and two drill holes in the Thunder North prospect. Diamond drillhole KH18-17 was drilled at the KGE2 showing (Assessment Report 38231).
Metallis's 2020 relogging of greater than 10,000 metres of drill core revealed a calcareous siltstone unit forming an approximate 1 to 2 kilometre long halo of high-grade gold mineralization. Gold grades as high as 14.2 grams per tonne over 3 metres (KH18-14) are associated with stockwork quartz-carbonate-sulphide veins, hydrothermal breccias and carbonate replacement textures. The 2020 drill program consisted of 3,820 metres in 5 holes spread out from the Cliff to the Nina areas. All five drill holes intersected broad intercepts of sulphide mineralization and pervasive silicification, attributed to higher gold grades within the Porphyry and surrounding calcareous siltstone units. Significantly, the altered and mineralized zone has now been traced over a vertical extent of one kilometre (Metallis Press Release, August 27 and November 16, 2020).
See Cliff (104B 620), Mount Dunn (104B 079) and King (104B 522) for details of related historical work done and geological information concerning the Kirkham/Mount Dunn property.