The KANGAROO 2 occurrence is located 1.8 kilometres southwest of the south end of Spanish Lake and 4 kilometres north of Hobson Arm, Quesnel Lake, approximately 70 kilometres northeast of the city of Williams Lake and 14.5 kilometres southeast of Likely. Access is provided by paved road to the community of Likely from Williams Lake, with the remaining distance accessed by the Spanish Lake forestry roads.
Regionally, the area is underlain by Middle to Upper Triassic Nicola Group banded slates and tuffs of the Quesnel terrane, with basaltic Upper Triassic Nicola volcanics to the west and Upper Proterozoic to Paleozoic Snowshoe Group metasediments to the northwest. To the east, the Eureka thrust fault marks a major tectonic boundary between the Intermontane and Omineca belts.
The area of principal interest is underlain by argillite, mudstone, siltstone, greywacke and conglomerate. These rocks have been weakly metamorphosed and complexly folded and faulted. Disseminated and vein-controlled gold mineralization occurs in all rock types, but is primarily concentrated in argillite units where they are cross-cut by a broad north trending structural corridor.
Locally, black phyllites host minor gold values. In 1985, a 20-metre chip sample (WL219 to WL228) from trench 3 assayed 0.24 gram per tonne gold; including 0.34 gram per tonne over 2 metres (Assessment Report 13869).
The 2011 diamond drilling program by Dajin Resources reported low-grade gold intercepts in all six holes in the Kangaroo 2 target area tens of metres in length and grading of more than 0.1 gram per tonne gold, with two of the wider sections returning 93.2 metres averaging 0.151 gram per tonne gold (DDH AD1-2011-011) and 96.0 metres averaging 0.105 gram per tonne gold (DDH AD1-2011-009). Four of the holes drilled in the northern geochemical target (Addie 1 showing), about 1 km to the north, exhibited scattered intervals throughout, ranging from two metres to thirty metres in length, averaging from 0.10 to 0.14 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 36573).
WORK HISTORY
Gold exploration has been ongoing in the surrounding area since the Barkerville gold rush in the 1850s. In 1933, A. Bayley and F. Dickson discovered gold veins on the flank of Spanish Mountain; exploration interest has been consistent since that time. During 1981 through 1985, E & B Explorations completed programs of rock, silt and soil sampling, prospecting, geological mapping, minor trenching and an airborne geophysical survey the area as the Wank and Kangaroo claims. Also in 1984, Mascot Gold Mines completed a geochemical sampling and geological mapping program on the area.
In 2005, Dajin Resources Corp. conducted a 51-sample stream sediment program that identified elevated gold and arsenic values (Assessment Report 28279). Between April 1, 2006, and January 7, 2007, Dajin conducted an 83-sample stream sediment program that further identified elevated arsenic and gold values on the property. Transition metal enrichments and the occurrence of graphitic phyllite have suggested a possible platinum group metal occurrence (Assessment Report 28867). In 2007, a helicopter-borne magnetic and electromagnetic survey was flown on the property. Results suggest the southeastward extension of stratigraphy and structures associated with the adjacent Spanish Mountain gold occurrence (MINFILE 093A 043; Assessment Report 29424).
In 2009, Dajin conducted a 660-sample B-horizon soil program showing coincident gold, arsenic and molybdenum anomalies. Zinc, copper and chromium anomalies were found to have a broader and contrasting geographic distribution compared to gold. Slightly elevated platinum values were associated with gold, whereas palladium values were associated with zinc (Assessment Report 31186).
In August 2010, Dajin conducted a 920-sample B-horizon soil program, reinforcing and expanding the anomalous gold and arsenic zones (Assessment Report 31803). In 2011, Dajin conducted a soil sampling survey. Results of this survey reproduced known gold anomalies and showed that values increased with sample depth, suggesting stronger and more representative values could be present in areas where previous sampling was too shallow (Assessment Report 32576).
Also in 2011, Dajin Resources Corp. completed 12 NQ diamond drill holes, totalling 2484 metres, on the Spanish Lake property. Six holes were drilled on the south target area (Kangaroo 2 showing) and six holes drilled approximately 1 kilometre north, in the Addie 1 (Minfile 093A 306) occurrence area. In 2012, Dajin released results from their drill program targeting two geochemical and geophysical targets. The company planned to conduct further trenching, ground geophysics and structural mapping before their next drill program (Press Release, Dajin Resources Corp., April 27, 2012).
C.J. Greig re-evaluated the 2011 drill results and more soil sampling was conducted in the southwest part of the property in 2016 with little encouragement (Assessment Report 36573). In 2018, C.J Greig and Evergold Corp. reviewed previous geophysical surveys. The production of 3D inversion models of the magnetics yielded several targets throughout the property, three of which are proximal to known mineralization discovered during historic work. The focus of the study was to identify areas of favourable carbonaceous sedimentary rocks where they are cut by north to northwest trending structures that may represent faults (Assessment Report 38121).
In 2019, Evergold Corp. conducted a soil program in the northeastern part of the property. Three discreet west-northwest trending gold ± arsenic ± molybdenum anomalies ranging from 1500 to 500 m in length were outlined southeast of the north 2011 geochemical drill target area. In 2024, the claims had reverted back to L. Addie who conducted programs of prospecting and rock sampling across the property south and west of Spanish Lake. The highest gold value in rocks sampled (130 parts per billion) was in the vicinity of the Kangaroo 2 showing, drillhole AD1-2011-011 (Assessment Report 42597).
