The Timothy Creek (YEP) occurrence is located 3 kilometres east of Highway 97 and 12 kilometres northeast of Lac La Hache. It is easily accessible on old logging roads.
The area is underlain by flat-lying calc-alkaline volcanic rocks of the Eocene Skull Hill Formation (Kamloops Group) which consists of basalt, dacite and rhyolite, related breccias and agglomerates and intercalated non-marine clastic sedimentary rocks (Memoir 363).
Locally, a system of parallel mineralized fracture zones strikes 015 degrees, dipping steeply west. The main mineralized vein is less than 1 metre in thickness and contains galena, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, quartz and calcite and has been traced for a length of 725 metres (Assessment Report 7256). Other, less well-developed veins are present on the property.
The highest assay from 8 surface chip samples was 0.3 per cent copper, 6.05 per cent zinc, 3.51 per cent lead, 159.4 grams per tonne silver and 1.3 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 5067).
In 1979, diamond drilling yielded intercepts of 0.08 per cent zinc and 21.7 grams per tonne silver over 3 metres in hole 1 and two 1-metre intervals grading 3.42 and 0.08 per cent zinc with 38.6 and 55.8 grams per tonne silver, respectively, in hole 2 (Peters, L.J. (2011-08-14): National Instrument 43-101 Technical Report on the Tak - Milligan Copper - Gold Project).
Work History
Previous work in the area includes soil and stream sediment geochemical surveys, an induced polarization survey (4.5 kilometres), bulldozer trenching and geological mapping by Anaconda American Brass Limited in 1966 and 1967 (Annual Report 1966 and 1967).
Prospecting and hand pitting was undertaken by W.W. Deans in 1972 (Assessment Report 5067). Mr. C Gunn staked the Westim and Rainbow claims over the property in 1976 and 1978 and completed some prospecting, hand pitting and back-hoe trenching. Noranda Exploration company optioned the property in 1979 and drilled two angle holes totalling 318.4 metres. Several mineralized carbonate veins were intersected approximately where expected below the surface showings. The assay results indicated that the surface grades did not continue to depth.
In 1982, BP Exploration Canada Ltd. completed 20 percussion drill holes on and near the property to test soil and induced polarization anomalies. In 1984, a further two diamond drill holes, totalling 282 metres, were completed. No significant intercepts were reported.
In 2010 and 2011, Fjordland Exploration Inc. completed programs, including prospecting, geological mapping, soil sampling and induced polarization surveys on the as the La Hache property.
During 2018 through 2021, EnGold Mines Ltd. completed programs of prospecting, soil sampling, diamond drilling and a geophysical survey on the area as part of the Lac La Hache property.
