The King George occurrence is located just to the west of McConnell Creek, approximately 1 kilometre downstream from the lowermost of the McConnell lakes, about 164 kilometres north-northwest of the community of Germansen Landing.
The regional geology is similar to that of the Gerle Gold occurrence (MINFILE 094D 006) located 3 kilometres west-northwest.
Locally, the area is underlain by homogeneous quartz monzonite to monzodiorite and diorite phases of the Early Jurassic Fleet Peak pluton. In the area of interest, the outcropping intrusive rock is a medium to coarse grained pink biotite granodiorite. The granodiorite is cut by two sub-parallel, well exposed zones of shearing and fracturing. Within these northwest-trending zones, the granodiorite is strongly silicified, epidotized and pyritized. Kaolinized and sericitized zones with associated fractures occur within the granodiorite.
The principal showing consists of granodiorite cut by silicified fracturing and a network of irregular trending white quartz veinlets. The mineralization is irregularly distributed over a triangular shaped area roughly 100 by 170 metres. The mineralization consists of malachite, pyrite and chalcopyrite with minor galena and molybdenite. The mineralization is disseminated in the hostrock, concentrated in veinlets and in zones of intense silicification.
In 1984, a semi-continuous 5-metre sample section from a hand dug trench assayed 0.15 per cent copper and 1.371 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 13065).
Work History
In 2002, Northgate Exploration Limited staked the KG property for potential for copper-gold porphyry mineralization and covers the King George occurrence. The work program comprised a helicopter-borne high resolution, magnetic and electromagnetic airborne geophysical survey. This work was aimed at outlining conductive areas associated with porphyry-style alteration, and definition of magnetic anomalies related to intrusive activity. A total of 125-line kilometres at 200 metre spacing were flown.
In 2005 and 2006, GGL Diamond Corp. completed programs of soil sampling on the area.
In 2018, GGL Resources Corp. conducted an exploration program consisting of the collection of 72 soil samples, 32 rock samples and 11character samples of historic drill core. General geological and geomorphological observations were also made during the field visit. This work was conducted to better understand, evaluate and put in context the historic results collected on the property since 1981. In addition, and concurrently, a modern structural investigation and interpretation using Sentinel-2 and Landsat 7 imagery was commissioned.
In 2020, GGL Resources Corp. completed a 12.8 line-kilometre ground magnetic survey and a 11.7 line-kilometre induced polarization survey on the McConnell Creek property.
