The Snowflake 7 occurrence is located approximately 400 metres southwest of Quilchena Creek and 5.5 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, pyrite and magnetite, with associated malachite, occur in massive green laharic breccia of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group (Central belt, Bulletin 69).
In 1984, a rock sample assayed 0.020 gram per tonne gold and 0.3 gram per tonne silver (Assessment Report 13714, Drawing No. 2, sample 922).
In 1986, two drillholes, located several hundred metres west and southwest of the occurrence, yielded anomalous intercepts of up to 0.235 gram per tonne gold over 8 metres in hole 86-3 and 0.188 gram per tonne gold over 4 metres in hole 86-4, respectively (Assessment Report 14983).
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 1975, Newconex Canadian Exploration Ltd. completed a program of prospecting and an 8.0 line-kilometre ground magnetic survey on the area as the Quil claims. Extensive trenching is reported to have been completed on the area by this time. 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 in 1981. In 1984, Laramide Resources Ltd. completed a program of geological mapping, rock sampling and ground magnetic and induced polarization surveys on the area. 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 and completed a limited program of geological mapping and geochemical sampling in 2002. The claims were re-staked in 2005 and 2006 by R. Billingsley, G. Richards and G. Diakow. 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 2013, New Chris Minerals Ltd., on the behalf of Richard Billingsley, completed a program of rock and soil sampling on the area as the Aspen Grove property. The following year, a photo-geological 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. Also at this time, Enduro Metals Corp. completed a program of photogeological structural (lineament) analysis and a 2.5 line-kilometre ground magnetic survey on the area immediately south of the occurrence.
