The Knoll claims are located 34 kilometres east of Hazelton on the east side of Harold Price Creek.

The claims are underlain by a knob of Upper Cretaceous Brian Boru Formation (Kasalka Group) volcanic rocks ranging from rhyolite to andesite in composition. Rhyolitic rocks consist of fine grained, massive but highly fractured felsite, porphyry and flow banded units. Local flow banding suggests the knob may be a volcanic dome complex. The volcanic rocks occur east of a prominent block fault which underlies Harold Price Creek. The volcanic rocks are altered and pyritized with local disseminated and fracture-controlled sphalerite and galena. One grab(?) sample assayed 80.0 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 13960).

Mineralization at the Knoll claims is mainly disseminations and veinlets of pyrite, sphalerite, and galena set in rhyolite breccia and lapilli tuff. Hand specimens of pyritic rhyolite from Harald Price Creek and not tested by drilling return high levels of lead, zinc and arsenic, and locally in silver and cadmium. Gold and silver values are anomalous, but modest. Seven drillholes tested an induced polarization (IP) anomaly. They passed through fracture-controlled veins filled with pyrite, pyrrhotite, and arsenopyrite with quartz and calcite. Several of the holes drilled in the southeast part of the property went through the rhyolite dome into black argillites (the British Columbia Regional Geologist suggests the rocks are of mid-Cretaceous age and correlative with the Rocky Ridge Formation (of the Skeena Group) and thus have Eskay Creek deposit (104B 008) styles potential).

Mineralization was discovered by D. Ethier in 1983, and in 1988 Goldpac Investments optioned the property and performed geological, magnetic and induced polarization surveys followed by diamond drilling. In 1999, Ethier completed a soil survey supported by a British Columbia Prospectors Assistance Program grant.

In 2011, it was reported that the mineralization seen in the 1988 program drill core at the Knoll area (east of Harold Price Creek) shows some differences from that present further west in the Max area (093M 027), both in style and mineralogy. In addition to spherulitic rhyolites, the Knoll core includes thin bedded, silty sediments that appear to represent distal turbidites. These contain thin beds of pyrite and pyrrhotite with sporadic sphalerite. Also present are cross-cutting veins of pyrite, arsenopyrite, galena and chalcopyrite with anomalous quantities of gold and silver. Much of the sphalerite seen in the Knoll drill core is pale coloured and presumably iron poor, suggesting it is relatively low temperature and was deposited more distally. This contrasts with the dark to black, presumably higher temperature Fe-rich sphalerite present throughout the Max area.

The stratiform sulphide occurrences in the Max-Knoll area are believed to represent syn-sedimentary volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) mineralization that was originally deposited under shallow marine conditions on the sea floor. Some of the cross-cutting veins hosted by the sedimentary and volcanic rocks probably represent feeder conduits for the stratiform sulphides. However, partial remobilization of some sulphide zones probably occurred during the subsequent emplacement of the Max stock, and some intrusion-hosted mineralization may have been derived from the earlier VMS event

WORK HISTORY

Exploration in the Knoll area east of Harold Price Creek began after the discovery, in May 1983, of zinc-lead mineralization (Assessment Report 13960). Goldpac Investments Ltd. optioned the Knoll area and in 1988 built an access trail to complete geological mapping, and magnetic and induced polarization (IP) geophysical surveys. In 1988, seven diamond-drill holes totaling 978 metres were completed in various parts of the Knoll area; these were collared to test IP anomalies (Exploration and Mining in British Columbia 1999). The highest grade intercept was in hole 88-3 which cut a 1.0 metre-thick section assaying 0.51 per cent lead, 1.32 per cent zinc, 9.58 per cent arsenic, 30 grams per tonne silver and 1.61 grams per tonne gold (Exploration and Mining in British Columbia 1999). Ten grab samples collected by D. Ethier had maximum values of 47.4 grams per tonne silver, 0.03 gram per tonne gold, greater than 1 per cent lead, greater than 1 per cent zinc, greater than 1 per cent arsenic, 40 parts per million (ppm) antimony and 72 ppm copper (as reported in Assessment Report 33559). It is believed that no further work was done in the area until prospector Daniel Ethier completed a soil sampling survey in 1999. Subsequently, Wojdak and Ethier (2000) published a geology map (Exploration and Mining in British Columbia 1999) of the Knoll area based on work by Leask et al. (private report).

In September 2007 and March 2008, an agreement was reached between CJL Enterprises Ltd. and Otterburn Ventures Inc. to option 13 claim tenures that cover the bulk of the Max-Knoll property. Otterburn conducted fieldwork between May and August 2008. This initially involved several helicopter visits to examine and sample the existing Max (MINFILE 093M 027) area trenches, as well as the old historic Knoll drill core which was stored in the bush in the Knoll area. Later road improvements included re-decking two bridges and the renovating a 1.1 kilometre stretch of the overgrown "cat" trail that led up to many of the Max occurrences. Otterburn set up an eight-person camp close to the north end of the property. Subsequent work included prospecting, surveying a total of 30.5 kilometres of soil lines and collecting more than 1300 soil and 160 rock samples; the latter included grab, chip and cut-channel samples. In addition, 20 silt samples were taken from streams throughout the property. During the 2008 season, Otterburn completed some mechanical trenching in various parts of the Max area, including reopening the 25 metre-long Max Main Trench prospect. In all, eleven trenches were either renovated or newly excavated.

In 2011, Price Creek Mining conducted an exploration program on the Max-Knoll property. Work consisted of the collection of 246 rock samples, 66 silt samples and 1508 soil samples. An airborne electromagnetic survey was conducted over 454.5 line kilometres (Assessment Report 33559). The airborne survey included the area from the Max (093M 027) east to the Knoll (093M 100) occurrence and beyond.

During the 2012 program, operator Price Creek Mining collected 1508 soil samples, 174 cut channel samples, 72 surface grab and rock chip samples, and 66 stream silt samples. Price Creek commissioned Geotech Airborne Geophysical Surveys and Exploration to fly an airborne geophysical survey over the entire property which consisted of 454.5 kilometres of VTEM electromagnetic surveying. Many of the chip and grab samples from the Max area were taken from altered and/or mineralized outcrops, on or close to some known occurrences.

The property was acquired by Jaxon Mining Inc. (formerly Jaxon Minerals Inc.) in November of 2016. During the 2017 season Jaxon Mining completed the following work on the Hazelton Property: VTEM Geotech data purchase and interpretation, ~20 kilometres of existing road clearing, ~10 line kilometres of induced polarization (IP) geophysics, 213 one-metre channel samples in 25 channels, 221 property-wide rock grab samples, 181 geological observation stations, 203 water samples, 105 metres (75 drillholes) of detailed back pack drilling of high grade material in the trenches, a structural study of exposed trenches and exposures over the Max target area, property-wide prospecting, detailed prospecting, and Differential GPS (DGPS) survey of the main trail and access to the numerous surface trenching and channel sample areas. In November 2017, Jaxon Mining Inc. conducted diamond drilling in the Max area of the Hazelton Property and drilled a total of 2022 metres of NQ-sized core in twelve holes collared from eight setups.