The KW occurrence is situated in the Kwanika Range near the headwaters of Halobia Creek, approximately 9 kilometres east of Tsayta Lake and 49 kilometres southwest of Germansen Landing.
The area is underlain by mesozonal plutonic rocks assigned to the Late Triassic to Early Cretaceous Hogem Intrusive Complex which have intruded volcanic and sedimentary rocks of the Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Takla Group east of the Pinchi fault zone. The plutonic rocks form an elongate batholith, extending from Chuchi Lake, and north to the Mesilinka River.
The only reference to the occurrence describes chalcopyrite, pyrite, and molybdenite mineralization on fracture surfaces in monzonite cut by pyroxenitic lamprophyre dikes and small syenitic potassium feldspar dikes (Geology, Exploration and Mining in British Columbia 1971, page 200).
In 2011, soil sampling on the Redton property over the Halobia Creek grid defined three separate anomalies (Halobia, Halobia-GoldRidge, Halobia-West) as well as moderate to strong correlations for iron-vanadium-copper-zinc. The KW is plotted just northeast of the Halobia-West anomaly area and just north of the Halobia-GoldRidge anomaly which is coincident with the Halobia-West anomaly near its western end. The Hal showing is plotted within the Halobia anomaly area, east of the KW area. The Halobia-West anomaly is a small (1.1 by 0.6 kilometre) coincident copper-molybdenum and lead-in-soil anomaly. The Halobia-GoldRidge anomaly consists only of elevated gold-in-soil values that form an east trending, 4.5 by 0.6 kilometre anomaly in the center of the Halobia Creek grid. The Halobia anomaly in the Hal (093N 167) showing area to the east was tested in 2014 by an induced polarization survey with negative results.
Work History
The KW 1-4 and KW 1 claims were held in 1971 by Noranda Exploration Company, Limited; geological mapping was reported.
During 2005 through 2010, Redton Resources and Geoinformatics Exploration Canada Inc. undertook work on the regionally extensive Redton property, which covered the Falcon (MINFILE 093N 068) occurrence to the south (just north of Nation Lake) and north to the Tak (MINFILE 093N 067) occurrence, approximately 6 kilometres south of the Omineca River. In 2005, a 5764.0 line-kilometre airborne magnetic and electromagnetic survey was completed on the area as the Takla-Redton property. In 2006, a program of geological mapping and geochemical (rock, silt, and soil) sampling was completed on the property along with 12 diamond drill holes, totalling 4032.5 metres, on the Takla-Rainbow (MINFILE 093N 082) and Tak occurrences. In 2007 and 2008, programs of geochemical sampling (rock, silt, and soil) sampling, ground geophysical surveys and 10 diamond drill holes, totalling 3784.0 metres, were completed on the property. This work centred primarily on the Takla-Rainbow occurrence to the north and Falcon occurrence to the south. In 2010, a subsequent AeroTEM survey by Redton Resources identified 65 electromagnetic anomalies on the property.
During 2011 through 2014, Kiska Metals Corp. (previously Rimfire Minerals Corporation) completed programs of prospecting, geological mapping, geochemical (rock, silt, and soil) sampling and ground geophysical surveys on the Redton property. A combined 11.2 line-kilometre ground induced polarization and magnetic survey was completed on the Halobia Creek area. This work identified the Halobia-West soil anomaly just northeast of the KW occurrence and Halobia-GoldRidge anomaly just north of the KW occurrence, which is coincident with the Halobia-West anomaly near its western end.
In 2019, Spearmint Resources Inc. completed a program of prospecting and rock sampling on the area as the Safari property.
