The GINGER B occurrence is located approximately 4 kilometres east of Lowry Peak in the Omineca Mountains, north of Mesilinka River and approximately 120 kilometres northwest of Germansen Landing. The showing is on the Kliyul property (2025), approximately 1.6 kilometres east-northeast of the Kliyul Main Zone porphyry prospect.

Regionally, the area is underlain by a northwest trending assemblage of Upper Triassic Takla Group volcanics and sediments. The Takla Group rocks are intruded by various phases of the Triassic-Jurassic Hogem batholith, to the south. To the east, the rocks are intruded by leucocratic granodiorite of the Early Cretaceous Kliyul Creek body. To the north, the volcanics are intruded by quartz diorite of the Early Jurassic Darb Lake stock. The major structure in this area is the north trending Dortatelle fault. Smaller faults trend northwest.

Locally, the area is underlain predominantly by dark green tuffs with intercalated breccias and porphyritic (hornblende) andesites. A few thin beds of limy slates, containing poorly preserved fossils, are intercalated with the volcanics. The rocks generally strike north and dip approximately 45 degrees to the west.

The showing consists of mineralized quartz veins containing pyrite and occasional grains of chalcopyrite and galena. One quartz vein, striking 155 degrees and dipping 80 degrees west, is 0.9 metre thick and has been exposed for 21 metres. A 0.5-metre channel sample from this vein assayed 21.94 grams per tonne gold. Another channel sample, taken 6 metres away, assayed 23.0 grams per tonne gold across 0.43 metre (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 251).

In 2015, Teck Resources collected a single sample from the Ginger area at the historic Ginger B vein and a second sample was taken at the newly named “Cardamom Zone”. Sample 2614503 (at the Ginger B) was taken from the 1.5 metre wide, 132 degrees/82 degree-oriented Ginger B vein. This grab sample confirmed the presence of high-grade gold with an assay result of 53.6 grams per tonne gold, 82 grams per tonne silver, and 147 parts per million molybdenum (Assessment Report 35978). The sample was taken from a white-coloured, near-vertical quartz-pyrite vein hosted within strongly oxidized mafic volcaniclastic rocks. The UTM location was 674990 East, 6266453 North.

Pacific Ridge drilled two holes in the Ginger area in 2023. Drilling of KLI-23-055 in the cirque 470 metres northeast of the Ginger B occurrence, intersected gold-silver bearing massive quartz veins. The vein intersected at 300.8 metres depth assayed 0.22 gram per tonne gold and 0.93 gram per tonne silver over 3.7 metres. At Ginger South, 700 metres south-southeast of the Ginger B occurrence, drilling of KLI-23-061 intersected local skarn alteration and a massive white quartz vein grading 0.03 per cent copper, 0.21 gram per tonne gold and 0.61 gram per tonne silver from 224 to 227 metres downhole (Assessment Report 41888).

WORK HISTORY

From 1946 to 1947, Sturgeon Gold Mines sampled several quartz-sulphide veins on their Ginger claims with one channel sample returning 47 grams per tonne gold and 96 grams per tonne silver over 0.66 metres (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1947, page 102-104),

In 1992 Noranda carried out 1:5,000 scale geological and alteration mapping and in 1993, they drilled 6 reverse circulation holes on the Kliyul skarn zone (Assessment Report 23033) and followed up with an airborne magnetic, electromagnetic, and radiometric survey (Assessment Report 23379). This airborne survey also covered the Ginger B occurrence and about 24 other occurrences.

Noranda optioned Golden Rule’s JO claims to the west and south of the KLI claims, along with ground to the north and southeast of the current Kliyul property. Noranda completed a program of test-pitting in the vicinity of the magnetite. They reported a second magnetite zone near the northern boundary of the property with the best chip sample grading 0.6 per cent copper and 1 gram per tonne gold across 1.5 metres in a melanocratic diorite (Assessment Report 23379). The Ginger B vein was relocated and re-sampled, with the best 2 metre chip sample assaying 13 grams per tonne gold and 15.2 grams per tonne silver across pyritic andesite with 30 to 50 per cent quartz veining (Assessment Report 23379).

In 2013, Kiska Metals and Teck Resources conducted geological and alteration mapping at a scale of 1:5,000 and detailed (1:1,000) over the Kliyul Main Zone. A 29.9 line-kilometre induced polarization and ground magnetic survey was conducted. A reinterpretation and review of the previously drilled core was done to confirm the porphyry potential of the zone (Assessment Report 34890).

In 2015, Teck drilled 4 diamond drill holes at the main Kliyul occurrence totaling 1,908 metres. In addition, induced polarization and magnetometer ground geophysical surveys, geological mapping, rock sampling and re-logging of historic drill core. The work was done on Ginger B and BAP occurrences (Assessment Report 35978).

In 2017, in partnership with First Quantum Minerals, AuRico Metals completed a property-scale evaluation of the Kliyul property consisting of constructing a stratigraphic column and property-scale (1:5,000 to 1:10,000) geological and alteration mapping, a 350-metre-spaced rock sampling grid across the whole property, and a ground ELF survey. A total of 383 rock and soil samples were collected on the 350-metre spaced grid. 294 (77 per cent) of the collected samples were from outcrop, 28 (7 per cent) were from subcrop, and 60 (15 per cent) were soil or talus fines (Assessment Report 37284). This work identified the Kliyul Main Zone and the Bagel IP Anomaly as the most viable targets on the property. The BAP ridge quartz-sericite-pyrite zone remained a potential target, though downgraded from initial assessments. In November of 2017, Centerra Gold Inc. announced its acquisition of AuRico Metals.

In early 2020 Pacific Ridge Exploration Ltd. commenced an earn-in on the Kliyul property, and continued exploration towards acquiring 100 per cent interest in May 2023 (Press Release, Pacific Ridge, May 10, 2023). In 2020, Pacific Ridge ramped up exploration efforts on the property with re-logging and sampling of three drill core holes from Bap Ridge, mapping rock sampling and spectral analysis and magnetic and induced polarization surveys over the Kliyul Main Zone (KMZ). From 2021 through 2023 programs included mapping, sampling, airborne magnetic and radiometric surveys, LiDAR surveys, and induced polarization (IP) surveys focusing on the KMZ as well as the Ginger (Ginger B 094D 014), Parish Hill (094D 255) and M39 (KC 094D 140) areas. In addition, 3 diamond drill holes totaling 1544 metres were completed on the KMZ in 2021; 12 holes totaling 7,014.7 metres were completed at KMZ and north, west and east extensions in 2022; and 19 holes totaling 10,284 metres were completed in 2023 (16 holes at KMZ, 3 holes at Ginger, Ginger South and Parish Hill) (Assessment Report 41888).

In 2024, Pacific Ridge launched a 541 line-kilometre airborne helicopter Z-Axis Tipper Electromagnetic (ZTEM) survey covering much of the Kliyul property, including the BAP Ridge (KC 1), Ginger B, Ginger South, Kliyul Main Zone ("KMZ"), M-39 (KC), and Parish Hill target areas (Pacific Ridge Press Releases Jul. 23 , Nov. 14, 2024).

Refer to Kliyul (094D 023) for related geological and work history information.