The Hagas showing is underlain by Lower Jurassic Telkwa Formation of the Hazelton Group. This unit is comprised of undivided andesite, dacite, rhyolite, basalt, flows and pyroclastics. Locally, the host Telkwa rocks are maroon to red lapilli tuffs which have been pervasively propylitically and argillically altered. Quartz stringers, along fracture surfaces (striking approximately 090 degrees and dipping approximately 75 degrees) contain disseminated chalcopyrite, sphalerite and native copper. A sample yielded 2.03 per cent copper, 4.11 grams per tonne silver, and 0.069 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 8447).
Nearby Eocene Quartz phyric felsitic intrusion in the Hagas area are likely related to the Nanika Plutonic Suite. Late Cretaceous Bulkley Plutonic Suite intrude the stratigraphy a few kilometres to the north of the Hagas showing.
An isolated gabbroic body has been silicified and propylitically altered with associated malachite mineralization.
Follow-up trenching has exposed an extensive gossanous zone with limited/no mineralization.
WORK HISTORY
Exploration in the area started in 1965 when Julian Mining Co. Ltd. located a silt geochemical anomaly on Code Creek to the northeast. From 1966 to 1971, induced polarization and magnetometer surveys and soil and silt geochemical surveys were performed over the Hagas areas by Anaconda. This work identified the Turam anomaly, located in the northeast corner of the claims. By 1973, four diamond-drill holes, totalling 493.2 metres, had been performed on the Turam anomaly. One of these holes (77-1) intersected 13 metres of massive pyrite and stringer sulphides with high trace values in copper, zinc, silver and gold (Property File Rimfire Vulimiri, 1985). In 1977, Aquataine Company Limited conducted further geophysical surveys of the anomaly area.
In 1989, two drillholes intersected significant mineralization in altered volcanic rocks. The mineralized zone extends from 100.65 to 102.65 metres in DDH 89-3 and comprises pyrite, tetrahedrite, chalcopyrite and argentite; native copper is also evident. Analyses yielded 0.33 per cent cadmium, 0.85 per cent lead, 0.98 per cent zinc, 42.8 grams per tonne silver and 1.23 per cent copper (Assessment Report 19743, page 1.
In 1996, Electrum Resource conducted a brief ground electromagnetic test survey consisting of 2050 metres of coverage on two survey lines on the Pimpernel Claims. The data detected two conductors correlated with the 13X and 9A airborne survey anomalies. A third response of low quality was found to correlate with the approximate location of airborne anomaly 10.
In 1997, Electrum Resources conducted a reconnaissance-scale drainage, rock and soils sampling coverage of the northern portion of the Pimpernel claim area. They collected 15 rock and 84 soil and 3 silt samples (Assessment Report 25485). The two chain-and-compass soil sampling lines were oriented at right angle to the two airborne geophysical conductors present along the west branch of Pimpernel Creek valley. No anomalous gold or silver values have been identified in the fifteen rock samples collected, however, the usual pathfinder suite for precious metals mineralization, consisting of arsenic, mercury and antimony were very strongly anomalous,
In 2004, sampling and prospecting by Electrum Resource occurred on the Pimpernel claim which covered the Hagis showing. A total of 16 rocks and 17 silt samples were collected. Rock samples were weakly anomalous in precious and base metals.
The Hagas area was contained in the Pimpernel property worked under option by Copper Mountain Mining in 2012 and 2013. Refer to Code (093L 004) for related references and work.
