The MAL001 showing is a part of the Honeymoon Creek property, located on the western shore of Adams Lake, approximately 44 kilometres north east of Barrier.
Regionally, the area is at the contact between granites and granodiorites of the Cretaceous Baldy Batholith, low grade metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks of the Mississippian Eagle Bay Assemblage and Late Devonian orthogneiss. To the south, there are intrusive rocks of the Jurassic Nelson Suite, including the Honeymoon Bay Stock.
At the MAL001 showing, a hand trench has exposed an area, 6 to 8 metres wide, of malachite staining in a Devonian paragneiss. The malachite staining is associated with iron carbonate alteration. Chalcopyrite and large quartz veins are also noted to occur with the malachite, while chalcopyrite also occurs as blebs and stringers in the paragneiss/orthogneiss host.
Sampling, in 2007, yielded values of up to 0.04 gram per tonne gold, 35.3 grams per tonne silver, 0.86 per cent copper and 0.009 per cent molybdenum (Assessment Report 29407).
In 2009, two chip samples (322631 and 322632) yielded 17.0 and 22.0 grams per tonne silver with 0.222 and 0.349 per cent copper over 0.40 and 0.30 metre, respectively (Assessment Report 30869).
The TK anomaly, 850 metres north west of MAL001, is an area of anomalous copper values in soil and float rocks. Soil samples, from the area, returned up to 454 parts per million copper and 285 parts per million zinc. Float rocks returned values up to 1431 parts per million copper (Assessment Report 29407).
Work History
During 2007 through 2009, D.J. Piggin and Acrex Ventures Ltd. completed programs of geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling, geological mapping and minor trenching on the area as the Honeymoon Creek 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.
In 2014, SolidusGold Inc. completed a program of prospecting and geochemical (rock, soil and heavy mineral) sampling on the Honeymoon property.
