The Wing's Canyon occurrence is located along Quartzrock Creek, in Wing Canyon, approximately 93 kilometres north of the community of Dease Lake.
Regionally, the area is underlain by basaltic volcanic rocks of the Mississippian to Permian Slide Mountain Complex.
Locally, strongly sheared and carbonate-altered basalt is cut by numerous quartz veins, lenses and stringers in a zone almost 200 metres wide. The zone strikes approximately 073 degrees and dips 60 degrees south and is cut by a major northwest-trending fault. The veins are locally ribbon-structured and may have slickensided walls and quartz-carbonate alteration. Sulphides, mainly pyrite, tetrahedrite, chalcopyrite and sphalerite, are scarce. One shear zone contains quartz stringers with arsenopyrite. Fine gold has been panned from accumulations of oxidized material.
Another zone of mineralization, comprising a 2.1-metre-wide quartz vein with minor sphalerite, chalcopyrite and malachite staining is reported on the east side of Troutline Creek, approximately 400 metres south of the plotted location of the occurrence.
A selected sample (taken in 1935) of honeycomb quartz and limonite assayed 13.6 grams per tonne gold and 3.7 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 8552; Minister of Mines Annual Report 1935).
In 1984, three chip samples (P3167 to P3169) of vein material and the foot and hangingwalls of a vein, located approximately 300 metres south of the plotted location of the occurrence, yielded an average of 0.9 gram per tonne gold over 1.3 metres (Assessment Report 12627).
In the mid-1990s, chip samples from the plotted location of the occurrence are reported to have yielded 0.27 and 0.48 gram per tonne gold over 30 and 8.4(?) metres, respectively (Assessment Report 27226).
In 2002, a rock sample taken from mineralized quartz veins assayed 5.88 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 27183).
In 2009, drilling is reported to have intercepted wide zones of generally low-grade mineralization (generally 0.1 to 1.0 gram per tonne gold over 10s of metres) except for drillhole TA09-040, which yielded 21.80 grams per tonne gold over an unspecified length in a zone of generally low-grade mineralization (Assessment Report 31397).
In 2020, drillhole 20TA-105 is reported to have intercepted numerous wider low-grade zones of up to 0.83 gram per tonne gold over 5.15 metres and narrow high-grade zones of up to 19.5 grams per tonne gold over 0.5 metre, whereas drillhole 20TA-106 yielded 1.45 grams per tonne gold over 8.70 metres (Assessment Report 39350).
Work History
The area has been explored in conjunction with the nearby Taurus (MINFILE 104P 012) occurrence and a completed regional and property exploration history can be found there. A historical, northeast-trending adit is reported approximately 200 metres south of the plotted location of the occurrence.
In 1979, the Panda and Camp claims were staked and in the same year geological mapping was carried out on behalf of Plaza Resources Corp. In 1983, the Panda and Camp claims were acquired by Erickson Gold Mining Corp. In 1984, the Diane Fr. was staked, and work conducted comprised prospecting, geochemical sampling, geological mapping and trenching. In 2002, the Wing Gold claims were staked by D. Javorsky and optioned to Lucky Strike Resources Ltd. The claims were prospected and sampled by Javorsky.
During 2008 through 2010, Hawthorne Gold Corp., later China Minerals Mining Corp., completed regional programs of geological mapping, geochemical (rock and soil) sampling and 11,657 line-kilometres of airborne magnetic, radiometric and electromagnetic surveys on the area as the Cassiar Gold property. Also in 2009, six diamond drill holes (TA09-035 through TA09-040), totalling 969.6 metres, were also completed on the Wings Canyon occurrence.
In 2019, Margaux Resources completed a program of prospecting, geological mapping and rock sampling on the area as the Cassiar Gold property.
In 2020, Cassiar Gold Corp. completed a program of regional photogeological interpretation, prospecting and rock sampling on the Cassiar Gold property. Also at this time, two diamond drill holes (20TA-105 and 20TA-106) were completed on the Wings Canyon occurrence to test its western extension.
