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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  23-Jun-2020 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name GOAT, COPPER KING Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 094E064
Status Showing NTS Map 094E11W
Latitude 057º 37' 09'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 127º 21' 49'' Northing 6387491
Easting 597745
Commodities Copper, Silver Deposit Types L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
H05 : Epithermal Au-Ag: low sulphidation
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Goat occurrence is located approximately 6.5 kilometres north of Claw Mountain about 262 kilometres northwest of the community of Germansen Landing.

The showing is situated within a Mesozoic volcanic arc assemblage which lies along the eastern margin of the Intermontane Belt, a northwest-trending belt of Paleozoic to Tertiary sediments, volcanics and intrusions bounded to the east by the Omineca Belt and to the west and southwest by the Sustut and Bowser basins.

Devonian-Permian Asitka Group crystalline limestones are the oldest rocks exposed in the region. They are commonly in thrust contact with Upper Triassic Stuhini Group andesite flows and pyroclastic rocks. Stuhini volcanics have been intruded by the granodiorite to quartz monzonite Black Lake Suite of Early Jurassic age and are in turn unconformably overlain by or faulted against Lower Jurassic calcalkaline volcanics of the Toodoggone Formation (Hazelton Group).

The dominant structures in the area are steeply dipping faults which define a prominent regional northwest structural fabric trending 140 to 170 degrees. In turn, high angle, northeast-striking faults (approximately 060 degrees) appear to truncate and displace northwest-striking faults. Collectively these faults form a boundary for variably rotated and tilted blocks underlain by monoclinal strata.

The Goat showing is underlain by Stuhini Group porphyritic andesite flows with minor tuffs and agglomerates. This sequence is intruded in places by andesite dikes and rare small syenite plugs and dikes of the Early Jurassic Black Lake stock.

Chalcocite and associated malachite is hosted within fractured feldspar porphyry andesite. The andesite is chlorite and hematite altered. Fractures are filled with hematite and minor chalcocite and malachite. Mineralization is exposed for the entire length of a 30- metre trench. A 1-metre chip sample from this trench (sample #19, Assessment Report 12871) assayed 3.52 per cent copper and 56.4 grams per tonne silver.

In 1964, Canadian Superior Exploration Limited staked chalcocite-bornite mineralization in fractures in Stuhini andesite south of the Chukachida River. In 1965, the mineralization was investigated by trenching under a joint venture by Canadian Exploration, Canadian Superior and Asbestos Corporation. In 1968, Kennco Explorations (Western) Ltd. staked the Nama and McNamera claims in this area and carried out a program of prospecting and silt sampling. During this work a claim post was found with a carved date 1931.

Subsequently the area was restaked by Union Miniere Exploration Ltd. and geological, soil geochemical, magnetometer and diamond drilling programs were carried out from 1973 to 1975 with this work recorded in Assessment Reports 4745, 5230, 5242, 5635 and 5657. Drilling occurred on the Claw 5 claim (094E 046) located 3.5 kilometres east-southwest of the Goat showing.

In 1983, a 4-person crew staked the Copper King and Namera IV claims and conducted a geological prospecting and rock chip sampling program for Western Horizons Resources; 22 rock samples were collected. The Goat showing was discovered during this fieldwork (Assessment Report 12871).

In 1986, the Silver Glance and Silver Bluff claims were staked and the owner-operators did prospecting, rock and soil geochemistry and geological mapping (Assessment Report 16140). In 1990, the Silver Glance and Silver Bluff claims were transferred to Electrum Resource Corp. Electrum undertook a program of rock chip and stream sediment sampling (Assessment Report 20729).

In 2001, Electrum Resource Corp. staked the Tan Claims and did a 1-day reconnaissance of the property. The claims covered mineral occurrences Chuck (094E 019), Claw (094E 046), Goat (094E 062), and Copper King (094E 233). Electrum collected 9 rock chip samples, 5 soil samples and 1 stream sample. In 2007, Electrum collected 122 soil, 11 silt and 9 rock samples from the Tan 1-4 claims. A soil line with prospecting was completed in an east-northeast direction through the Goat showing area.

In 2017 and 2018, Evergold Corp. completed programs of prospecting, geochemical (soil and rock) sampling and an airborne geophysical survey on the area as the Golden Lion property.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 4745, 5230, 5242, 5635, 5637, *12871, 16140, 20729, 26849, *29983
EMPR BULL 86
EMPR EXPL 1975-E163-E167; 1976-E175-E177; 1977-E216-E217; 1978-E244-E246; 1979-265-267; 1980-421-436; 1982-330-345; 1983-475-488; 1984-348-357; 1985-C349-C362; 1986-C388-C414; 1987-C328-C346; 1988-C185-C194
EMPR FIELDWORK 1980, pp. 124-129; 1981, pp. 122-129, 135-141; 1982, pp. 125-127; 1983, pp. 137-138, 142-148; 1984, pp. 139-145, 291-293; 1985, pp. 299-300; 1986, pp. 167-174, ; 1987, pp. 111, 114-115; 1989, pp. 409-415; 1991, pp. 207-216
EMPR GEM 1969-103; 1971-63-71; 1973-456-463
EMPR GEOLOGY 1977-1981, pp. 156-161
EMPR MAP 61 (1985); 65 (1989)
EMPR PF (Photogeologic Interpretation Map of the Northern Omineca area, Oct. 1964, Canadian Superior Exploration Limited-in 94E General File)
GSC BULL 270
GSC OF 306; 483
GSC P 76-1A, pp. 87-90; 80-1A, pp. 27-32; 80-1B, pp. 207-211
GSC MAP 14-1973
W MINER April, 1982
N MINER Oct.13, 1986
N MINER MAG March 1988, p. 1
GCNL #23(Feb.1), 1985; #165(Aug.27), 1986
IPDM Nov/Dec 1983
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MIN REV September/October, 1982; July/August, 1986
WIN Vol. 1, #7, June 1987
Forster, D.B. (1984): Geology, Petrology and Precious Metal Mineralization, Toodoggone River Area, North-Central British Columbia, Unpub. Ph.D. Thesis, University of British Columbia
Diakow, L.J. (1990): Volcanism and Evolution of the Early and Middle Jurassic Toodoggone Formation, Toodoggone Mining District, British Columbia, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Western Ontario
Tupper, D.W. (2019-05-27): NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Golden Lion Property
Tupper, D.W. (2019-08-12): NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Golden Lion Property

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