The Lucky Bear (Little Creek) occurrence is located north of the East Barriere River, approximately 5 kilometres east-northeast of the east end of East Barriere Lake.
Regionally, the area is underlain by paragneiss and orthogneiss metamorphic rocks of the Devonian Eagle Bay Assemblage and quartz monzonitic intrusive rocks of the Cretaceous Baldy batholith.
The "Little Creek" tungsten-gold occurrence is hosted by sericite- and biotite-altered granodiorite. Steeply dipping, north-trending, sheeted quartz veinlets range up to 10 centimetres in width in a 10 metre-wide blasted roadcut exposure. The veinlets contain minor sericite and pyrrhotite. Ultraviolet lamping has identified scheelite grains up to 1.5 centimetres long which occur in scattered patches in the veins, and selected samples collected by the owners have returned up to 6.15 per cent tungsten (D. and L. Piggin, written communication, 1999). One chip sample contained 0.37 gram per tonne gold over 2 metres; otherwise the results were not significant for gold, bismuth or tungsten, confirming that tungsten, at least, is very irregularly distributed (Fieldwork 1999, page 210, 211).
Approximately 500 metres to the east of the previous zone, the "Flat Rock" tungsten occurrence comprises an irregular, half-metre-wide quartz vein with 1-3 per cent pyrrhotite and traces of chalcopyrite and scheelite. The vein is hosted by quartz-feldspar-biotite gneiss, part of the Devonian Orthogneiss (Schiarizza and Preto, 1987). A grab sample of the vein ran 0.1480 per cent tungsten (Fieldwork 1999, page 210, 211) and selected samples taken by the owners ran up to 0.39 per cent tungsten, 0.080 gram per tonne gold, and 0.0135 per cent bismuth (L. and D. Piggin, written communication, 1999).
Scheelite-bearing pegmatite and garnet-tremolite-biotite-quartz skarn boulders ranging from 30 centimetres to 1 metre in diameter are found 2 kilometres to the northeast of the Little Creek showing in the "Water Tank" area (UTM 11 0314806E 5690793N). A grab sample of one of the skarn float boulders returned 0.437 per cent tungsten, 0.0205 per cent bismuth and 0.1515 per cent zinc (Fieldwork 1999, page 210, 211). Although this mineralization has not yet been found in outcrop, the boulders suggest that skarn and pegmatite-hosted tungsten mineralization is associated with the margin of the Baldy batholith.
In 2013, a rock sample (99402) from the Lucky Bear occurrence area yielded greater than 0.02 per cent tungsten, whereas two other samples (99410), taken approximately 2 kilometres to the southwest, assayed up to 0.14 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 35230). Another sample (99408), taken up hill to the northeast of the Lucky Bear occurrence, yielded 10.7 grams per tonne silver and 0.007 per cent molybdenum (Assessment Report 35230).
Work History
Prospecting, in 1999, by Camille Berube and Dave and Len Piggin has located several new small tungsten-bismuth-zinc, tungsten and tungsten-gold showings on the Lucky Bear claim group near East and North Barriere Lakes.
During 2007 through 2009, D.J. Piggin and Acrex Ventures Ltd. completed programs of prospecting, geological mapping and geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling on the area as the Honeymoon property.
During 2010 through 2013, Astral Mining Corp. completed programs of prospecting, geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling, minor trenching and 2425.4 line-kilometres of airborne magnetic and electromagnetic surveys on the area as the Honeymoon property.
During 2014 through 2019, SolidusGold Inc. completed programs of prospecting, geochemical (rock, soil and heavy mineral) sampling and 67.2 line-kilometres of ground magnetic surveys on the Honeymoon property.
