The ME-18 occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 1700 metres on a generally south-facing slope in the northern headwaters of Wimpson Creek.

The area is underlain by the Lower Jurassic Limpoke pluton of the Texas Creek Plutonic Suite, which consists of monzodioritic to gabroic intrusive rock. The Limpoke pluton is a two-phase stock with a biotite hornblende quartz monzonite outer phase and medium-grained hornblende monozodiorite inner phase. Leucocratic potassium feldspar megacrystic syenite dikes and plugs intrude the eastern and western borders of the pluton and the surrounding Upper Triassic Stuhini Group sedimentary and volcanic rocks.

Locally, a medium-grained, equigranular, non-magnetic biotite-hornblende-plagioclase diorite hosts narrow (centimetre-scale) quartz veins with gold values.

In 2019, 10 rock chip samples yielded values from 0.22 to 1.58 grams per tonne gold over lengths of 5 to 15 metres (Equity Exploration Consultants Ltd. [2021-08-27]: Technical report on the Big Red Property, British Columbia, Canada).

In 2020, drilling yielded intercepts including 1.05 to 2.57 grams per tonne gold over 1.52 metres, respectively, in holes BR-20-017, -019 and -021 (Equity Exploration Consultants Ltd. [2021-08-27]: Technical report on the Big Red Property, British Columbia, Canada).

Work History

The area has been explored on conjunction with the Ridge (MINFILE 104G 208) and a complete regional exploration history can be found there.

In 2019 and 2020, Libero Copper and Gold Corp. completed programs of geological mapping; geochemical (rock, soil and talus fines) sampling; a 549 line-kilometre airborne electromagnetic (ZTEM) survey; three diamond drill holes, totalling 610.0 metres and 24 reverse-circulation drill holes, totalling 3527.5 metres, on the area as the Big Red property.