The Trace showing is located approximately 128 kilometres north of the port town of Stewart. The property is located approximately five kilometres northwest of the confluence of the Iskut River and More Creek and is adjacent to the Galore Creek access road.
The area of the Trace showing is underlain by fine-grained basaltic-andesitic rocks of the Upper Triassic Stuhini Group, consisting of dark green aphanitic volcanic rock, volcanic sandstone and lithic or lapilli/crystal tuff. One weakly mineralized gabbro sample was collected. The scope of the gabbro outcrop was not reported.
Seven of the eight samples collected for ICP and lithogeochemical analysis in 2016 are believed to be Stuhini volcanics, with one sample of a gabbro. The gabbro may be younger than the remaining anomalous samples, with a minimum age for this sample of 80 million years, based on K-Ar dating completed for this report. Five of the eight samples returned weakly copper values greater than 100 parts per million copper. The highest copper value of 0.027 per cent copper (sample 2016SA0917) was described as an alkaline gabbro containing trace pyrite and chalcopyrite (Assessment Report 36610). None of the samples returned anomalous gold assay values.
WORK HISTORY
In 1990, Noranda Exploration Ltd. ran an extensive program on land that would make up much of the western portion of More Creek property (but west and/or south of the Trace showing). In 1990, a program of airborne geophysics, geological mapping, and reconnaissance geochemistry was completed. The airborne geophysical program consisted of electro-magnetic and magnetic surveys. The geochemistry program included soil, silt, rock and pan sampling (Assessment Reports 21087 and 21348).
Also in 1990, Stow Resources Ltd. conducted a reconnaissance exploration program, 5 to 7 kilometres southeast of the Trace showing on their Burr Property. The Burr covered the eastern half of claim tenure 508337 which contained the Trace showing in the late 2010s and early 2020s. The program consisted of rock, soil and stream sampling as well as geological mapping and prospecting (Assessment Report 20593).
During 2004 and 2005, NovaGold Canada Inc. acquired mineral claims along the Galore Creek access road route that included mineral claim tenure 508337. NovaGold conducted a seismic refraction survey at several proposed creek and river crossings along the access road route (Assessment Report 28423). In 2006, field work on the More Creek property consisted of digital and lidar mapping and geotechnical drilling programs along the Galore Creek access road route in the Trace showing vicinity ((Assessment Report 28791). In 2007 NovaGold Canada Inc. operated a field program consisting of geotechnical drilling, geochemical sampling and geological mapping on their More Creek claims. Sampling was conducted for exploration purposes, and to identify rock from which future road construction could potentially generate acid drainage. Acid Rock Drainage (ARD) and geochemical sampling resulted in 168 samples collected from drill cuttings and blasted rock produced during road construction (Assessment Reports 29749). In 2014, Galore Creek Mining Corporation (GCMC) completed a small field program consisting of geological mapping and geochemical sampling on newly exposed rock outcrop along the Galore Creek access road route, focusing between kilometre 19 and kilometre 24. Twelve rock outcrop samples were collected in support of the mapping project; seven ICP samples, four petrographic samples, and one lithogeochemistry sample (Assessment Report 35253). The 2015 GCMC program of geological mapping and geochemical sampling resulted in eleven (11) rock samples consisting of 6 lithogeochemistry samples, 4 petrography samples, and one geochronology (age dating) sample (Assessment Report 35966). The focus of the program was the assessment of mineral potential in exposed road cuts within claim blocks 508124 and 508337. The 2016 field work conducted on the More Creek claims consisted of 23 samples collected for lithogeochemical, geochronological, ICP and petrographic analysis within mineral claims 408606, 508124, 508337 and 508338 (Assessment Reports 36610). Work on the northwest area of tenure 508337 resulted in the discovery of the Trace showing.
