The Aki occurrence is located 2.3 kilometres north of Pesika Creek approximately 158 kilometres north of Germansen Landing.
The area is underlain by Cambrian to Ordovician Kechika Group talcose phyllites and calcareous mudstones, unconformably overlain by a succession of Ordovician to Devonian Road River Group siltstones, shales, limestone, and dolomites, and Ordovician Ospika Formation volcanics. This succession is overlain by Lower Devonian to Mississippian Earn Group sediments, the most voluminous being the Lower Devonian Gunsteel Formation grey-black pyritic shales.
Several limonite gossans are associated with Gunsteel Formation shale and the shale locally contains bands of disseminated and nodular pyrite. The largest exposed gossan is 300 metres long and 50 metres wide, although its thickness is unknown. A composite of 13 samples of limonite from the gossans assayed 0.98 per cent zinc and 2.08 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 10002).
Rare traces of barite were present in gossanous material, although a barite horizon was not located. Grid soil sampling yielded anomalous values in zinc (from 0.1 to 2 per cent) mainly in association with the gossan zones (Assessment Report 33505).
Work History
In 1980-81, Aquitaine Company of Canada (ACC) staked the Aki and Guy claims and conducted exploration activities.
In 2006, St. Eugene Mining Corp. acquired 100 per cent interest in 12 contiguous mineral claims that contain four mineral occurrences: the Aki (this description), Gnome (094F 016), Gin (094F 017) and Pesika (094F 025).
In 2007, Rio Grande Mining Corp. conducted a program of geochemical sampling, gravity geophysical surveys, prospecting and geological mapping on the area as part of the Kechika property. The following year, Rio Grande completed an airborne magnetic survey on the area.
In 2010, AsiaBaseMetals, Inc. conducted a Fugro airborne DIGHEM geophysical survey consisting of 233.8 line-kilometres over the entire Gnome Property to better define the extent of mineralization. The Gnome property held the Gin, Gnome and Aki occurrences. The Gin and Aki were on that part of the Gnome property called the Southern area.
In 2012, follow-up soil geochemical sampling and geologic mapping was completed on the Gnome property on behalf of AsiaBaseMetals Inc. and supplemented previous soil sampling results. Areas of interest were visited, and infill sampling, mapping and minimal prospecting were conducted. Additionally, the mapped gossans were visited in order to characterize their source, type, mineralogy and geochemistry. The targeted areas of interest were previously defined by the historical work on the property as Areas A, B and C. Within these areas, soil sampling, rock sampling and geologic mapping were conducted, and structural settings were identified. The Southern area in the vicinity of the Gin and Aki showings were also sampled.
Refer to Gnome (094F 016) for related details of Gnome property of which the Aki was part of from 2008 to 2014.
In 2018, AsiaBaseMetals Inc. completed a program of soil and rock sampling on the area as the Gnome property. The following year, a program of prospecting, geological mapping, geochemical (rock and soil) sampling and a single diamond drill hole, totalling 140 metres, was completed.
