The Saddle Mtn showing occurs near the boundary of the Intermontane and Coast tectonic belts. The showing area occurs near the contact of Upper Triassic Stuhini Group rocks consisting of andesitic volcanics, microdiorite and sediments and an Early Jurassic monzodioritic to gabbroic pluton of the Texas Creek Plutonic Suite. Granodiorite bodies were exposed within a few hundred metres of the occurrence.
Two samples were taken on and near old trench workings just over 1 kilometre north of the summit of Saddle Mountain. Grab sample #245568 taken from tuffaceous rock with chalcopyrite and hematite assayed 0.7 per cent copper, 19.4 grams per tonne silver and 0.035 grams per tonne gold; grab sample #245973 taken from rusty and silica altered agglomeratic(?) rock with chalcopyrite, hematite and pyrite yielded greater than 1 per cent copper, 29.6 grams per tonne silver and 0.07 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 18114).
Work History.
The JW property consists of 14 recorded claims named J.W. 1 to 14 extending north-south along the north fork of Jack Wilson Creek, which is a westerly flowing tributary of the Stikine River.
Kennco Explorations (Western) Limited apparently staked the J.W. claims 1-14 in about 1963. The property was subsequently surrounded by claims staked by Conwest Exploration Company Limited early in 1964. Magnetometer and geochemical work was carried out by Kennco in the summer of 1963. During 1965 a program of line cutting, magnetometer and induced polarization surveys and geochemical soil-sampling was carried out.
In 1988, Bellex Mining collected 180 rock and 13 silt samples (Assessment Report 18114). In 1989, Bellex collected 315 rock and 326 soil samples. They found or investigated the Boundary zone, North Fork Creek (Central) zone and Devils Club zone. Six old trenches at the Devil's Club Showing were located and sampled.
Bellex identified a strong coincident Cu-Au soil anomaly measuring 500 by 1400 metres. A 1990 diamond drill program by Bellex consisted of 5 NQ drill holes totalling 1392 metres. Maps 5 (Assessment Report 20843) shows these holes are situated on or around the Central zone.
In 2007, Romios Gold drilled 3 holes (481.50 metres) within the core of the Bellex soil geochemical anomaly. The 2007 drilling established that the anomalous copper and gold soil geochemical signature in the valley of Jack Wilson Creek, which appears to be covered in a thick mantle of alluvial material exceeding 80 metres in depth, is unlikely to represent bedrock metal values.
See JW Central (104G 021) for related details.
