The West Wolf showing was first discovered in 1990 on the Axe property, held by Ascot Resources Ltd. As of 1991, the Axe property consisted of some 59 claims totalling 932 units. Work reported done on the Axe claims in 1990 and 1991 (primarily rock, soil and silt sampling) was spread over several showings on these extensive holdings. Wolf West consists of a 300 metre by 800 metre area defined by soils and prospecting.
The area has been mapped on a regional scale as Upper Triassic Stuhini Group intruded by dikes, sills and plutons of Early Jurassic age (Open File 1997-03). The Early Jurassic Groat stock is a faulted, northeast trending, coarse-grained porphyritic to fine-grained equigranular intrusion with granodiorite to quartz monzonite modal compositions. A Uranium-Lead age date of 205.1 plus/minus 8 Ma was determined by R.M. Friedman of the University of British Columbia (Fieldwork 1996, page 295).
The area of the West Wolf showing is underlain by andesitic volanic rock at the northwest contact of the Groat stock. A large carbonate altered fault zone trends 300 degrees across the plateau north of the main zone. Mineralization is generally confined to narrow shears and fractures weakly mineralized with pyrite, chalcopyrite and sphalerite. A weak gossan has developed in the area, trending to the southeast. High grade samples yielded up to 8.81 grams per tonne gold and 3.4 per cent copper; the best chip sample assayed 1.9 grams per tonne gold over 0.5 metre (Assessment Report 21858, page 19).
In 2016, Skeena Resources personnel spent six man-days evaluating and prospecting the Wolf (104G 045), Blowdown (104G 171) and Wolf West (104B 172) targets with two man-days spent on each. A total of 28 rock samples were collected from the targets. Sample descriptions with locations were recorded in Assessment Report 36505). Investigation of the main showing area by Skeena indicated steeply dipping, narrow, northwest and northeast trending limonitic fracture zones with one limonitic breccia zone trending 360 degrees dipping 45 degrees west. Previous high gold samples were associated with narrow and poddy limonitic zones trending about 110 degrees with steep north dip below (just north) of what appears to be a potassium feldspar-epidote-altered diorite dike. Minor mineralization further east is associated within narrow margins of felsic dikes (sample S792059), which is also observed at Wolf. Overall, zones are narrow and discontinuous.
Refer to GJ (104B 034) and Donnelly (104B 086) for common historical details of GJ/Kinaskan property.
