The Al occurrence is located approximately 7.0 kilometres due west of where Park Creek turns from a southwesterly flow to a due-south flow toward the Stikine River. The location given is assumed to be correct from the initial records of this occurrence, which are no longer available.
Regionally, the area is within and/or near the margin of a major Late Triassic quartz monzonite stock. A large, fault-bound block of Upper Triassic Stuhini Group rocks lies immediately to the west and several roof pendants occur to the north in the quartz monzonite stock. To the south lies a package of Upper Paleozoic rocks that have tentatively been assigned to the Permian Asitka Group (Geological Survey of Canada Open File 483). More recent studies of these rocks suggests that they may be correlative with rocks of the Kutcho Formation in the Cry Lake map area. Fossil evidence dates at least part of the sequence as Mississippian. A tentative age of Devonian to Permian is given to these rocks. The Takla (Stuhini) Group in the Toodoggone map area is described as consisting of coarse-grained augite phyric basalt and andesite lava flows; lesser amygdaloidal and coarse plagioclase phyric flows; local pillow lava and hyaloclastite; interflow tuffaceous siltstone; mudstone and limestone (Bulletin 86).
Locally, the area is underlain by Stuhini Group andesitic tuffs and breccias that have been intruded by a small granodiorite plug, which has caused extensive silicification and pyritization of the volcanics along the contact. Pyrite and chalcopyrite are associated with quartz carbonate veinlets.
In 2005, an angular float boulder sample (271722) with mottled quartz and trace disseminated pyrite and pyritohedra assayed 0.54 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 28004).
Work History
During 1980 through 1983, Du Pont of Canada Exploration Limited conducted programs of prospecting, geological mapping, geochemical sampling and trenching on the area immediately east and northeast as the Park 1-5 and SK 1 claims, respectively.
During 2001 through 2005, Rimfire Minerals Corporation and Stikine Gold Corporation carried out a program of prospecting; rock, silt and soil sampling; geological mapping and ground geophysical surveys on the area as the BT 1-3 claims of the Williams property. In 2006, Arcus Development Group Inc optioned the Williams property from Rimfire. In 2007, Equity Engineering Ltd was contracted by Rimfire to carry out a program of geological mapping, prospecting and rock, soil and silt sampling on the Williams property.
In 2014, Kiska Metals Corp. completed a program of prospecting, geological mapping and rock and soil sampling on the area.