The Bee Lake S6 showing is located approximately 3.7 kilometres north-northeast of Engineer, to the east of Tagish Lake.
The area of the Bee Lake S6 showing is underlain by Lower Jurassic sedimentary rock of the Inklin Formation, Laberge Group. In 1981, rock grab sample 6 was taken west of 'Bee Lake' by prospector Roy Carlson and is briefly described in his report that is contained within Assessment Report 10511. Carlson describes low and/or erratic greywacke outcrop west of Bee Lake where three greywacke samples (samples 2, 5 and 6) were found to contain significant gold. A silicified, pyritic sample of greywacke assayed 5.21 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 10511).
Work History
The following history covers that of the Llewellyn property (in the 2000s) that spanned almost 40 kilometres northwest to southeast, but less than 3 kilometres across. Only work done in 1981, the airborne survey done in 2007, the MMI work in 2011 and the prospecting in 2012 are pertinent to the Bee Lake showings.
In 1981, claims on the east side of Tagish Lake were under option to Nomad Resources Ltd and Tagish Resources Ltd. Limited prospecting was done at the time and several samples were collected. The 1981 claims covered some of the same ground that is presently held as part of the Llewellyn Property.
In 2006, satellite imagery work was carried out and this revealed iron oxide targets located toward the northwestern part of the property. These were later followed up in August and September of that year, with visits by geologists George Owsiacki and Garry Payie who took rock and soil samples on behalf of XO Gold. The part of Llewellyn property is about 23 kilometres northwest of Tagish Lake and about 30 kilometres northwest of 'Bee Lake' where the most recent (2011) property work occurred.
In 2007, on behalf of XO Gold Resources Inc, line cutting, Mobile Metal Ion (MMI) soil sampling and a small amount of magnetic surveying were carried out on the Llewellyn Property just west of False Lake (itself which is just west of Tagish Lake). No documented mineral showings occur in the grid area. The MMI sampling consisted of 262 samples taken along nine lines for a total survey length of 6350 metres. The magnetic survey was carried out with two proton precession magnetometers, one of which was a base station, by taking readings every 25 metres along three lines for a total survey length of 1850 metres. The MMI soil sampling revealed four anomalies labeled by the upper-case letters of A to D, inclusive. Two of these, labeled A and B, are significant copper-molybdenum-zinc anomalies located at the southern end of the main survey area that is to the west of Tagish Lake. These two anomalies are very likely reflecting base metal sulphide mineralization. Anomaly C is a gold-zinc-arsenic-cobalt-silver anomaly and anomaly D is a gold-silver anomaly. The magnetic survey revealed magnetic highs that are associated with the copper-molybdenum-zinc A and B anomalies, also suggesting the correlation with basic rock-types.
In 2007, a detailed high-resolution helicopter-airborne magnetic and gamma ray spectrometric (radiometric) survey was flown over the Llewellyn property while under option to XO Gold Resources Inc. After the report by Shirvani and Gebauer (Assessment Report 30379), a report on the airborne survey results was prepared by TerraNotes Ltd of Edmonton, Alberta, for XO Gold. The report is included as Appendix IV in Assessment Report 30365B. Terranotes reported five regions of interest based on radiometric and aeromagnetic anomalies. These are indicated on report figures as R3-1, R3-2, R3-3, R3-4, and R3-5. R3-1 and R3-2 are located at the eastern shore of Tagish Lake; the other regions are located at the western shore. The airborne magnetic survey was reported to be 1545 kilometres in length and the airborne radiometric survey was 793 kilometres. A remote sensing survey covered 14,000 hectares.
In 2011, on behalf of Momentum Minerals Inc, grid emplacement and Mobile Metal Ion (MMI) soil sampling were carried out on the Llewellyn Property on the east side of Tagish Lake, west of 'Bee Lake'. The 2011 MMI sampling consisted of 819 samples taken along thirteen lines for a total survey length of 21,550 metres. The total sampling was 1081 samples along twenty-two lines over 27,900 metres. The MMI soil sampling revealed three anomalies. Two of these are significant copper-molybdenum-zinc anomalies located at the southern end of the main survey area that is to the west of Tagish Lake. These two anomalies are thought to reflect base metal sulphide mineralization.
The specific purpose of emplacing the Bee Lake Grid along with the MMI sampling was to determine the extent of mineralization on and around the location of three grab samples taken in 1981 from three outcrops each containing significant amounts of gold, ranging from 0.9 to 5.21 grams per tonne gold (Bee Lake S2, S5 and S6 showings; 104M 102, 101 and 112 respectively) (Assessment Report 10511).
In 2012, Momentum Minerals conducted a prospecting program on the southeast portion of their Llewellyn property, focussing on the Bee Lake S2, S5 and S6 areas and the Glean showing (104M 078). The program conducted for the assessment reporting in 2012 consisted of prospecting the southwestern Bee Lake area, Hope Creek headwaters and the eastern talus slopes of Gleaner Mountain. Most of the samples collected were stream silt samples and the most common rock sampling method was a grab type from bedrock, followed by a talus type rock sample from the base of steep cliff faces. All three areas provided anomalous assay results in multi-elements and two of these areas, Bee Lake at Shear B and the Hope Creek head waters, appear to not have been previously documented as anomalous areas.
