The Mes (Link) copper occurrence is located on the mountain between Kliyul Creek and Mesilinka River, approximately 11 kilometres west of Aiken Lake and 105 kilometres northwest of the community of Germansen Landing.

The main rock unit on the property belongs to the Upper Triassic Takla Group (Plughat Mountain Formation) and is comprised of gently northwest dipping porphyritic andesite, fine-grained andesite, banded tuff and minor limestone (Assessment Report 10924). Granodiorite of the Lower Cretaceous to Lower Jurassic Hogem Plutonic Suite outcrops on the southwest portion of the claims. A prominent northwest-trending gossan, 2000 metres in length and up to 600 metres wide, is associated with a swarm of northwest trending, steeply dipping quartz porphyry, felsite and dioritic feldspar porphyry dikes (Assessment Report 10924).

Phyllic and argillic alteration are common in the Takla rocks with local silicification and development of quartz vein stockworks, particularly in the felsite dikes. Pyrite is common in some of the quartz vein stockworks, and reaches 20 per cent of the volume of the rock next to some of the felsic dikes; however, within the gossan zone it averages 1 to 3 per cent (Assessment Report 10924). Away from the gossan zone it averages 1 per cent, although there is one 60-centimetre-thick bed of massive pyrite in the tuffs of the Takla Group. Numerous occurrences of patchy malachite are present in the quartz porphyry and felsite dikes, in fracture zones and in scattered quartz-pyrite veinlets that crosscut the volcanic rocks. A single occurrence of molybdenite was identified in a felsite dike (Assessment Report 10924). Azurite and tenorite were other minerals identified on the property (Assessment Report 10924).

Work History

The area of the Mes (Link) showing was staked by Teck Explorations Limited in late 1978 along with the Kliyul (MINFILE 094C 007) and Bear (MINFILE 094D 113) claims approximately 4 kilometres to the north.

In 1982 and 1983, Getty Canadian Metals Ltd. completed programs of geological mapping and geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling on the area as the Mes and Bear claim groups. Two samples (21K0011R and 21K0010R) from the occurrence area yielded 0.29 and 0.77 per cent copper with 1.74 and 0.58 grams per tonne gold, respectively (Assessment Report 11728).

The Link claim was staked by Rio Algom Exploration Inc. in early 1990 to acquire an area defined as anomalous for copper during a regional reconnaissance program in the mid-1960s. This area appears to cover the Anorak showing (094C 153) and Mes (Link) showing. Prospecting and contour soil sampling was carried out on the central area of the claim. The purpose of this work was to determine if the anomalous copper-in-silt was derived from porphyry-type copper and gold mineralization.

In 2002, Northgate Minerals Corp. completed a 25.0-line-kilometre airborne magnetic and electromagnetic survey on the area as the Croy 5 claim.