This Snowflake 10 occurrence is located on a small hill, approximately 1.1 kilometres southwest of the junction of Logans and Quilchena creeks and 6.3 kilometres northeast of Aspen Grove.
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 and pyrite are hosted in massive grey to green andesite of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group (Central belt, Bulletin 69).
In 1984, a rock sample (669) assayed 0.005 gram per tonne gold and 0.2 gram per tonne silver, whereas a chip sample (670) taken 160 metres east yielded 0.225 gram per tonne gold and 1.5 grams per tonne silver over 50 metres (Assessment Report 13714, Drawing No. 2).
In 2013, a grab sample (H215921) of volcanics from the occurrence area yielded 0.122 gram per tonne gold, 4.5 grams per tonne silver, 0.006 per cent molybdenum and 0.254 per cent copper (Assessment Report 34661).
Work History
In 1966, Chataway Exploration Co. Ltd. completed a soil sampling program on the area as the Adit, Creek, CU and Ski group of claims. In 1979, Cominco Ltd. completed a 26.0 line-kilometre ground magnetic and induced polarization survey on the area as the Snowflake and Tule claim groups of the Grove property.
Snowflake Mining Company Ltd. examined the occurrence area in 1981. In 1983, Laramide Resources Ltd. completed an induced polarization survey on the area. The following year, a program of geological mapping, rock sampling and ground magnetic and induced polarization surveys were completed. In 1986, Lornex Mining Corp. Ltd. completed an induced polarization survey and six diamond drillholes, totalling 576.7 metres, on the Snowflake property.
In 2001, the Douglas Lake Cattle Co. staked the area as the Blue Jay 1-7 claims and the following year completed a limited program of geological mapping and rock sampling. In 2007, Etna Resources Inc. completed a 366 line-kilometre airborne geophysical survey on the area as the Aspen Grove property. In 2008, Christopher James Gold Corp. completed a 1113.5 line-kilometre airborne magnetic-radiometric survey on the Big Kidd property. In 2009, a further program of geological mapping, soil sampling and 48.8 line-kilometres of ground magnetic and induced polarization surveys were completed on the Aspen Grove property.
In 2012 and 2013, Richard Billingsley completed photo geological structural (lineament) analysis programs on the area. Also in 2013, New Chris Minerals Ltd., completed a program of rock and soil sampling on the area as the Aspen Grove property on behalf of Richard Billingsley. The following year, a photogeological structural (lineament) analysis was completed on the area. In 2017, Cazador Explorations Ltd. completed a 145.0 line-kilometre airborne magnetic survey on the property.
