The Champ showing is located north of Champion Creek, approximately 6.9 kilometres southeast of Castlegar. The showing is a part of the Champion Creek Group of claims and has been explored by T. Kennedy since the mid-2000’s and was later joined by Kootenay Gold Inc. in 2008. From 2007 through 2010, a programme of rock and soil geochemical surveys was performed on the property.
The area is underlain by a several phases of probable Middle Jurassic plutonism, including the Bonnington batholith and younger stocks that appear related to the Nelson plutonic suite. These younger stocks are intermediate to granitic in composition, subcircular in shape, and are locally brecciated in their more brittle carapaces. These intrude mainly metavolcanics of the Early Jurassic Rossland Group. North- to northwest-trending faulting, possibly related to the north-trending Champion Lake fault, cuts these units. These faults and structures are commonly marked by Tertiary dikes and locally associated with quartz-sulphide gold veining.
At the Champ showing mineralization includes quartz veining and stockwork zones with gold values, and commonly occurr in granitic or more mafic intrusive rocks. These are often associated with north- to northwest-trending, steeply dipping structures, and locally have evidence of relatively high-level emplacement, such as breccia textures, cavities and druse quartz. Veins consist of quartz with variable but generally minor arsenopyrite, galena, sphalerite and/or chalcopyrite. Hand samples of vein material have returned values up to 3353 parts per billion gold (Assessment Report 31027).
In 2017, 66 Resources Corp. undertook an exploration program on the property containing the occurrence. The program included soil and rock sampling. The North Grid was centered on the Champ occurrence. Highlighted results included low but anomalous gold values with a maximum of 0.711 grams per tonne gold and 14.3 grams per tonne silver from the rock chip sample 257630 (Strickland, D. (2018-03-19): NI43-101 Technical Report on the Champ Property).
