The Bloo occurrence is located approximately 1.8 kilometres north-northwest of the north end of Bluey Lake and 1.4 kilometres west-southwest of the south end of Kentucky Lake.
Regionally, the area is underlain by the Upper Triassic Nicola Group, which regionally consists of alkalic and calc-alkalic volcanics and intrusions of island arc origin, and which is the principal component of the Quesnel terrane in southern British Columbia (Geological Survey of Canada Maps 41-1989, 1713A). The area lies in the Central Belt or facies of the Nicola Group (after Preto, Bulletin 69). This belt of rocks mainly consists of subaerial and submarine, red or purple to green augite plagioclase porphyritic andesitic and basaltic flows, volcanic breccia and tuff, and minor argillites and limestone. The volcanics are intruded by bodies of comagmatic Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic diorite to monzonite. The area is characterized by long-lived, primarily north-striking faults and related fracturing, which originally controlled intrusion emplacement. East-striking faults are subordinate, and commonly offset intrusive contacts.
Locally, chalcopyrite, malachite and hematite occur in fine-grained diorite or dioritized volcanics of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group (Central Belt, Bulletin 69). Other zones of mineralization are reported to be exposed in a trench several hundred metres to the south and 60 metres northwest of the historical shaft and are composed of a malachite-stained, chlorite-altered diorite.
In 1985, a rock sample (2574) assayed 0.483 per cent copper and 1.7 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 14141, Drawing 5b).
In 1990, three rock samples (KN90007 through KN90009) of fine-grained diorite or tuff(?) with minor malachite staining, taken in the vicinity of an old shaft, yielded from 0.428 to 0.795 per cent copper and 2.7 to 6.5 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 20551, Figure 3).
In 1996, a selective composite sample (28516) of silicified andesite hosting quartz veinlets with traces of pyrite, chalcopyrite, bornite and malachite assayed 1.35 per cent copper and 9.0 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 24522).
Work History
A historical shaft and trench, likely dating to the early 1900s, is reported to have been developed on the occurrence.
In 1978, Belmont Resources Inc. completed a program of soil sampling and a 13.0 line-kilometre ground electromagnetic survey on the area as the AR claim.
Also, during 1975 through 1981, Fred Gingell completed programs of geological mapping, geochemical (soil and rock) sampling and geophysical surveys on the area immediately south of the occurrence as the Bluey claims. In 1983, Belmont Resources Inc. completed a ground magnetic survey on the AR claim. In 1985, Vanco Explorations Ltd. completed a program of geological mapping and geochemical (rock and soil) sampling on the area as the Bloo, Climax and Thor claims. In 1987, a further program of rock and soil sampling was completed on the claims.
In 1990, MineQuest Exploration Associates Ltd. completed a minor program of prospecting, geological mapping and rock sampling on the area as the Ley 1-3, Al 1-3 and Ken claims. In 1992, Pacific Copper Fields Inc. and MineQuest Exploration Associates Ltd. completed a program of geological mapping and rock sampling on the claims. In 1996 and 1997, Len Harris and later Matrix Energy Inc. completed programs of prospecting and rock sampling on the area as the Tom Cat and Climax claims.
In 2006, Bold Ventures Inc. completed a program of geochemical (rock and soil) sampling and a 28.0 line-kilometre induced polarization survey on the area as the Casper claims of the Kentucky Lake property.
In 2012, Enduro Metals Corp. completed a photogeological structural (lineament) analysis on the area as the Tom Cat property. The following year, Victory Resources Corp. completed a further photogeological structural (lineament) analysis on the property. In 2018, Enduro Metals Corp. completed a minor program of prospecting, geological mapping and sampling on the area as the Tom Cat property.
