The North occurrence is located east of Moyie Lake and north of Glencairn Creek, at an elevation of approximately 1060 metres.
The area is underlain by quartzites and argillites of the Helikian Middle Aldridge Formation (Purcell Supergroup) and is contained within an east-west fracture zone, dipping 70 degrees south, which strikes across the axial plane of a large regional northeast-plunging anticline. The area is transected by several important base metal-bearing structures (St. Eugene (082GSW025), North Break, Old Yeller (082GSW111), etc.) but much of the area is masked by overburden.
Locally, as identified by drilling, siltstone, argillites and impure quartzites of the Middle Aldridge Formation host a narrow, west- northwest striking, mineralized vein system within a shear or fault structure. Sulphides include galena, sphalerite and pyrite. The narrow sulphide-bearing deformation zone occurs within a wider zone of bleached (sericitic?) alteration up to approximately 20 metres wide.
In 2007, significant drilling intercepts included (Assessment Report 29810):
___________________________________________________________Hole No. From To Length Lead Zinc Silver (m) (m) (m) (%) (%) (g/t) NS-07-01 297.90 298.60 0.70 0.28 0.44 2.3 NS-07-01 298.60 298.80 0.20 5.01 3.48 45.5 NS-07-01 298.80 299.75 0.95 0.07 0.07 1.3 NS-07-03 369.45 370.00 0.55 1.33 3.02 14.3 NS-07-03 370.00 370.30 0.35 0.11 0.24 1.4 NS-07-03 370.35 371.20 0.85 0.09 0.06 0.9 __________________________________________________________ |
In 2007, St. Eugene Mining completed three diamond drill holes, totalling 1007.6 metres, on the area as the Glencairn claim. The area has been historically explored in conjunction with the nearby St. Eugene (082GSW025) mine (Assessment Report 29810).
Work History
In 2006, Saint Eugene Mining completed 697 line-kilometres of airborne combined magnetic and electromagnetic surveys over 2 grids that covered the St. Eugene (082GSW025), North Zone (082GSW086), Guindon (082GSW027), Aurora (082GSW023), Fors (082GSW035), and Smoker (082GSW041) (Assessment Report 28450). Several weak conductors possibly associated with mineralization were reported.
In 2011 and 2013, Kootenay Silver completed programs of geological mapping, rock sampling, a 500-line-kilometre airborne magnetic survey and a 500-line-kilometre seismic survey on the area as the Silver Fox property.
In 2014, Kootenay Silver conducted more detailed geological mapping on its Silver Fox claim block (Assessment Report 35034). Work was focused on three principal areas, two of these being to the south around Ward and Gilnockie creeks, with the third being at the St. Eugene mine.
In 2018, a program consisting of geological mapping/prospecting and pXRF soil sampling was completed along the basal member of the Middle Creston Formation for approximately 17 kilometres from Barkshanty Creek south to the headwaters of Tepee Creek (Assessment Report 38925). The Silver Fox claim group of Kootenay Silver Inc. covered the area from Moyie Lake southeast to the U.S. border, some 30 kilometres. The Barkshanty geological work area covered Society Girl (082GSW030) and Golden Burp (082GSW085) with St. Eugene (082GSW025) and North Zone (082GSW086) being a little further west though part of the Silver Fox property. New copper mineralization was documented in various localities of the “Barkshanty” map area, and two holes were drilled on the property just over 3 kilometres east-southeast of the village of Moyie. The first hole was abandoned at 135 meters due to a rig breakdown. A second shallower hole was drilled from the same location and ended at 500 meters depth. The purpose of the program was to test the basal member of the Middle Creston Formation for stratabound copper-silver mineralization.
Refer to Tepee Copper (082GSW088) for related geological and work history information on the Silver Fox property, which (more recently) included the nearby St. Eugene past producing mine (082GSW025).
