The Auddie occurrence is located south of the Omineca River, approximately 4 kilometres southeast of the junction of Silver Creek and the Omineca River.
Locally, malachite staining occurs in cracks and open faces; a 10-metre section was marked by strong malachite staining in joints. Chalcopyrite was found in crack filling and stringers as well as small quartz veins. The host is a pale pink-grey equiangular quartz monzonite probably related to an Early Jurassic phase of the Hogem Plutonic Suite. Dikes are present but uncommon, they are dark/aplite/rhyolite up to 10 centimetres wide.
Work History
The occurrence was first identified in 2005, with grab samples yielding up to 0.89 per cent copper, 5.4 grams per tonne silver and 0.12 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 28889)
In 2006, the length of exposed subcrop and outcrop at the Auddie showing was chip sampled in two series by Elmer DeBock. Rock chip samples of 15 metres assayed 0.31 per cent copper and 0.02 gram per tonne gold and 28 metres assayed 0.16 per cent copper and 0.02 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 28889). It was reported by DeBock that intrusive outcrop was common along the Adams Creek forestry road for nearly 5 kilometres with evidence of copper mineralization for 1.25 kilometres.
In 2007, Rimfire Minerals Corporation conducted reconnaissance mapping, prospecting, surface geochemistry (143 soils), airborne magnetic and electromagnetics surveys (68.5 kilometres) and an induced polarization survey (6 kilometres) on the Auddie. Anomalous gold and lesser copper geochemistry was outlined by the soil sampling survey. An area of higher chargeability and lower resistivity associated with a strong, north-northwest trending magnetic high was identified in the central part of the property.
During 2005 through 2010, Redton Resources and Geoinformatics Exploration Canada Inc. undertook work on the regionally extensive Redton property, which covered the Falcon (MINFILE 093N 068) occurrence to the south (just north of Nation Lake) and north to the Tak (MINFILE 093N 067) occurrence, approximately 6 kilometres south of the Omineca River. In 2005, a 5764.0 line-kilometre airborne magnetic and electromagnetic survey was completed on the area as the Takla-Redton property. In 2006, a program of geological mapping and geochemical (rock, silt, and soil) sampling was completed on the property along with 12 diamond drill holes, totalling 4032.5 metres, on the Takla-Rainbow (MINFILE 093N 082) and Tak occurrences. In 2007 and 2008, programs of geochemical sampling (rock, silt, and soil) sampling, ground geophysical surveys and 10 diamond drill holes, totalling 3784.0 metres, were completed on the property. This work centred primarily on the Takla-Rainbow occurrence to the north and Falcon occurrence to the south. In 2010, a subsequent AeroTEM survey by Redton Resources identified 65 electromagnetic anomalies on the property.
In 2011 and 2012, Kiska Metals Corp. (previously Rimfire Minerals Corporation) completed programs of prospecting, geological mapping, and geochemical (rock, silt, and soil) sampling on the Redton property.
