The Kawdetelle Creek occurrence is located along Klawdetelle Creek approximately 3.5 kilometres northeast of the creek’s mouth on Chuchi Lake.

Regionally, the area is underlain by undivided rocks of the Lower Jurassic Chuchi Lake Formation (Takla Group), which has been intruded by syenitic to monzonitic, quartz monzonitic to monzogranitic and gabbroic to dioritic intrusive phases of the Lower Jurassic Hogem Plutonic Suite.

Locally, the area of the occurrence along the creek was surveyed by the B.C. Geological Survey; exposures of sparsely porphyritic diabase/basalt were mapped (Open File 1992-4). These exposures are part of the Upper Triassic to Lower Cretaceous Hogem Intrusive Complex, which in this area is considered to be Lower Jurassic.

An outcrop adjacent to Klawdetelle Creek is composed of potassically altered ‘mafic diorite’ and contains traces of malachite. In 1991, a sample of the rock yielded 0.1 per cent copper (Assessment Report 21994).

Work History

In 1971, Plateau Metals Ltd. completed a reconnaissance soil sampling program and a ground magnetic survey on the area immediately south as the Pot and Top claims.

In 1982, Westmin Resources Ltd. completed a program of silt and soil sampling on the area immediately southeast as the Nation 1 claim. This work identified a northeast-trending copper-lead-zinc anomaly associated with the mapped contact between an unaltered monzonite and a potassic-altered monzonite-syenite hosting disseminated magnetite with trace chalcopyrite and bornite.

In 1991, Armeno Resources Inc. completed a program of geological mapping, geochemical (rock, silt, and soil) sampling and a 24.2 line-kilometre ground magnetic survey on the area as the Chent 1-6 claims.

Also in 1990 and 1991, BP Resources Canada Ltd. completed programs of rock sampling, a 39.0 line-kilometre induced polarization survey and a 207.0 line-kilometre airborne geophysical survey on the area immediately south as the Anom 1-5 claims.

In 2007, Solomon Resources Ltd. completed a program of geochemical (soil and silt) sampling and a 1458.4 line-kilometre airborne geophysical survey on the area as the Col-Magnet property.

In 2013 and 2014, Pacific Empire Minerals Corp., in conjunction with Nation River Resources Ltd. and Indata Resources Ltd., completed programs of rock and soil sampling on the area as part of the Col-Later-Klawback property.