The Creek occurrence is located at approximately 2000 metres elevation on an east-facing slope west of Tatlayoko Lake.
The area of the Creek showing is underlain by a strongly faulted region just west of the Niut fault near the contact of basaltic rock of the Middle to Upper Triassic Cadwallader Group with a tonalite pluton that extends about 35 kilometres to the northwest. The Tchaikazan fault bounds the Cadwallader Group volcanics and the Cadwallader Plutonic Suite intrusion about 3 kilometres to the west of the Harvey Gold showing.
The rocks include felsic, intermediate and mafic volcanic flows, agglomerate, breccia and tuff, with minor sedimentary rocks (Geological Survey of Canada Open File 1163; Assessment Reports 10303, 17200). These rocks strike northwest. All rocks are intruded by numerous dikes and sills, many of which are probably related to a relatively large quartz diorite intrusion to the northwest. The dikes are composed of porphyritic quartz diorite and feldspar-quartz porphyry, or mafic rock; they trend mainly west-northwest or east-northeast, and dip steeply north.
Locally, a silicified, brecciated and argillic-altered andesite in contact with an altered feldspar porphyry dike hosts disseminated pyrite and minor chalcopyrite. Sericite is also reported. The zone trends to the northeast.
In 1991, the Creek showing was identified 1500 metres to the southeast of the Fly Showing. The average gold value from 10 rock-chip and grab samples taken from the Creek Zone contact area was 0.258 gram per tonne. Four samples taken from the altered feldspar porphyry side of the contact had an average gold content of 0.024 gram per tonne gold whereas the average of six samples taken from the silicified, propylitized and brecciated volcanic unit had and average gold content of 0.414 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 22358). Three samples taken from the volcanic unit within 40 metres of each other produced the next best set of copper values at an average of 0.1144 per cent copper (Assessment Report 22358). Sample 910724-10 graded 0.213 per cent copper, 10.0 grams per tonne silver and 1.78 grams per tonne gold (Property File - 808 Exploration Services Ltd. [1992-06-01]: Report - Porphyry intrusive system with copper-gold mineral potential - Harvey property).
WORK HISTORY
In 1968, the area was staked and examined by Newconex and New Jersey Zinc. In 1972, Noranda conducted a regional silt sampling program on the area. Later than year, Vanco Explorations staked the area as the Fly 1-14 claims and conducted a program of geological mapping, rock sampling and a ground magnetometer survey. In 1973, five diamond drill holes, totalling 669 metres, were completed. In 1982, Vanco Explorations examined the area as the Fly claim. In 1987, a program of geochemical sampling and prospecting was completed on the area as the Gossan 1-2 claims. In 1991 and 1992, 808 Exploration Services examined and sampled the area as the Harvey property.
In early 2011, Geotech Ltd. of Aurora, Ontario conducted helicopter-borne magnetic and Z Axis Tipper Electromagnetic (ZTEM) geophysical surveys over the Buzz property of behalf of Strategic Metals (Assessment Report 32233). A total of 772-line kilometres of EM and magnetic data were recorded. In spring of that year, the data from those surveys were evaluated by Condor Consulting (as follows in 2012). In 2012, Strategic Metals compiled data from Condor Consulting’s geophysical interpretation together with previously obtained geochemical and geological data collected by other operators (Assessment Report 33014). MINFILE occurrences within the area of the geophysical survey include: Nuit Mountain (092N 020), Rusty (092N 044), Anthony (092N 064), Clipboard (092N 065), Fly (092N 044), Creek (092N 074) and Harvey Gold (092N 073). The northernmost resistivity high (R2) coincides with a large magnetic high. The Gold and Creek showings lie immediately west of the eastern conductivity high, near the surface trace of Niut Fault.
In 2015, Strategic Metals collected a total of 28 rock samples were from the Fly, Downs and Niut Mountain showings. The other showings were not revisited in 2015 (Assessment Report 35815).
In 2021, Goldplay Mining Inc. conducted prospecting and geochemical sampling on the Goldstorm South project.
