Narrow quartz veins occur in pre-Permian (Stikine Assemblage) argillite, argillaceous sandstone and quartzite close to the contact with a stock of Late-Early Jurassic hornblende granodiorite of the Cone Mountain Plutonic Suite.

Specks of galena in quartz fragments are found in a northwest striking fracture zone. This zone is approximately a metre wide and has a 30 degree dip. A small fault-fracture contains isolated quartz fragments up to 34 centimetres long with sparse amounts of sphalerite, galena, pyrrhotite and rare specks of native gold. A sample across five centimetres contained 61.7 grams per tonne gold and 13.7 grams per tonne silver.

At a higher elevation a quartz vein 61 centimetres wide contains sphalerite, pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite and pyrite. This vein has been traced for about 61 metres showing good definition at all points of exposure. Assays contained a trace of gold and silver.

Work History

The Lucky Strike occurrence was staked in 1931. Some prospecting, stripping, and open cutting was done on the occurrence by the S. Barrington interests of Wrangell, Alaska, in 1931 and 1932.

Assessment Report 18134, 21883 (Map 1) shows that the area of the Mist showing was prospected by International Phoenix Energy Corp and Prolific Resources Ltd in 1989 and by Skeena Resources Ltd (formerly Prolific Resources) in 1991 as the MJ claims.

Re-sampling of the Lucky Strike and Drapich showings in 1988 confirmed the presence of geochemically significant gold values but did not yield ore-grade results. At that time it was reported that the Lucky Strike occurrence consisted of numerous parallel quartz veins ranging from 5 to 75 centimetres in width with minor sulphides hosted by argillite. And that analysis of rock geochemical samples from these veins yielded values comparable to those reported previously by the Geological Survey of Canada.

See Drapich (104B 011) for further details.