The Hat property is adjacent to Hatchau Lake located 95 kilometres west of Dease Lake and 50 kilometres northwest of Telegraph Creek.
The showing area is underlain by a thick sequence of Upper Triassic Stuhini Group porphyritic andesites and bedded tuffs which have been intruded by a dioritic-monzonitic stock of probable Cretaceous age. This stock was outlined during an aeromagnetic survey by Newmont in 1964.
At the Gossan Creek showing, a conspicuous bright orange-yellow gossan, cut by numerous shears, is located along a creek that drains into Hatchau Lake. The gossan zone is brecciated and veined by chalcedony, quartz, calcite and dolomite and mineralized with minor amounts of pyrite, chalcopyrite and lesser galena and sphalerite. Well banded and comb textures are present but not common. Breccias and adjacent rocks show evidence of multiple brecciation and deposition. Rock sampling yielded up to 0.7 per cent copper and 0.65 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 14802).
In 1995-96, E.A. Ostensoe and T.E. Lisle carried out a prospecting and geochemical sampling program and a total of 57 rock samples and 153 soil samples were collected. In 2001, Ostensoe and Lisle completed a program of geological mapping, geochemical sampling and prospecting work on the Hat/Bob claims which cover the Gossan Creek zone and the Hoey showing (104J 015). In 2005, a partial geochemical survey was carried out on the western part of the Gossan Creek zone near Hatchau Lake by Lisle and Ostensoe and in 2006 the geochemical survey in this area was continued on extensions to the 2005 grid mainly to the north and east. In 2008-09, claim owners T.E. Lisle and E.A. Ostensoe conducted a geochemical survey in four areas of the Hat Project claims; a total of 85 samples were taken for analysis. In summer 2011, Doubleview Capital Corp. negotiated an option to acquire a 100% interest in the Hat property and in September completed a 479 sample MMI geochemical soil survey.
Starting in 2011, Doubleview Capital Corp. conducted geophysical and geochemical surveys to confirm and expand prior work. Diamond drilling commenced in 2013 and has continued at intervals to the present. Most of the drilling has been directed to the new “Lisle Zone” where, in 2014, a significant gold-copper alkalic porphyry-type deposit was discovered.
In 2013 and 2014, over 7,000 metres of drilling in 22 holes was completed by Doubleview on the Hat project. Drilling was reported to have been done in 2015. In 2016, Doubleview completed another 1960.84 metres of diamond drilling in five holes.
In September of 2017, Doubleview stated that it had 'now compiled all available data from the Hoey and West Gossan mineral zones. Each zone is located more than one kilometer from the Lisle Zone that has been the focus of much of the Company’s work. Neither zone has been investigated by geophysical surveys or drilling but both have strong surface mineralization with copper, gold, silver and cobalt values. Results defined anomalies that extend over an area of 550 by 850 metres at the Hoey gold area (104J 015) and 1400 by 700 metres at the West Gossan/Gossan Creek area (Doubleview Capital Corp, News Release, October 19, 2017).
Results defined anomalies that extend over an area of 550 by 850 metres at the Hoey gold area (104J 015) and 1400 by 700 metres at the West Gossan/Gossan Creek area.
On June 19, 2018, Doubleview Capital Corp. announced that it had entered into an option agreement with Hudbay Minerals Inc. on the Hat Copper-Gold Project. Under the terms of the Option Agreement, Hudbay would be the operator. By July 24, 2018, Hudbay had initiated a deep-penetrating Induced Polarization (“IP”) geophysical survey program on the Hat project, with intention of covering the entire exploration area.
By May 2019, Hudbay had completed a 40 line-kilometre, deep-penetrating induced polarization survey intended to delineate drilling targets. The 3D IP survey data identifies the near surface part of the Lisle deposit as previously determined by historic IP, geochemical data and by Doubleview’s drill holes. It revealed the chargeability anomaly extends to at least 1250 metres vertically.
See Lisle (104J 068) and Hoey (104J 015).
