The Falcon A1 showing is located at the northern end of a north-northwest trending ridge, 2.85 kilometres south-southeast of Mount Gordonia and 7.0 kilometres north of the confluence of McClair Creek and the Toodoggone River (Assessment Report 19097). The showing is 300 kilometres north of Smithers. It lies within the Omineca-Cassiar Mountains in the north-central portion of the Toodoggone gold camp.

The Falcon A1 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. Permian Asitka Group crystalline limestones are the oldest rocks exposed in the region. They are commonly in thrust contact with Upper Triassic Takla Group andesite flows and pyroclastic rocks. These Takla rocks have been intruded by plutons and other bodies of the mainly granodiorite to quartz monzonite Early Jurassic Black Lake Suite 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 Falcon A1 showing is underlain by felsic to intermediate Toodoggone volcanics. An Early Jurassic granodiorite to quartz diorite stock lies immediately to the south and southwest. The volcanics are gently south-dipping and consist of dacitic porphyritic flows and lapilli and crystal lapilli tuffs (Assessment Report 19097). These have been mapped by L.J. Diakow as undivided Toodoggone volcanics consisting of welded lapilli tuff and pyroclastic breccia, rare accretionary lapilli tuff, porphyritic andesite and subordinate basalt lava flows, interspersed volcanic conglomerate, and laminated siltstone and mudstone (Bulletin 86).

The showing consists of a quartz vein within a gossanous zone. The quartz vein is exposed over a 3-metre length and a 2-metre width and contains localized malachite and chalcopyrite.

In 1985, rock grab sample R 223 was taken near this quartz vein assaying 10.6 grams per tonne silver and 0.035 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 14709). Subsequent exploration in 1989 yielded further anomalous values from the quartz vein described above. Grab sample FR-89-44 analysed 7.2 grams per tonne silver, 0.024 gram per tonne gold and 0.32 per cent copper (Assessment Report 19097). Sample FR-89-45, a 2-metre chip sample from this same vein analysed 5.9 grams per tonne silver, 0.014 gram per tonne gold and 0.51 per cent copper (Assessment Report 19097).

In 1986, seven samples from the area yielded values of up to 0.840 per cent copper, 4.1 grams per tonne silver and 0.31 gram per tonne gold (Property File – Carter, N. [1987-09-30]: Peregrine and Falcon A Property - Toodoggone River area).

In 1995, grab samples (GB-16 and -17) of silicified and epidote-altered mafic flows hosting chalcopyrite and malachite assayed 8.8 and 6.4 grams per tonne silver with 1.22 and 0.96 per cent copper, whereas to the south, a grab sample (MA-3) from a mafic dike hosting chalcopyrite, malachite and pyrite assayed 4.7 grams per tonne silver and 0.358 per cent copper (Assessment Report 24284). Also at this time, a grab sample (GB-21) of semi-massive sphalerite and trace chalcopyrite in a epidote-altered mafic flow, taken from the Fiddick claim approximately 580 metres to the east, assayed 0.17 gram per tonne gold, 9.8 grams per tonne silver, 0.339 per cent copper and 11.20 per cent zinc, whereas a nearby sample (GB-22) from a epidote-altered felsic dike with pyrite, chalcopyrite and malachite assayed 5.2 grams per tonne silver, 0.522 per cent copper and 2.02 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 24284).

In 2004, two float samples (185301 and 151360) of mineralized quartz veins, taken approximately 2 kilometres to the east-southeast, assayed 1.101 and 6.905 grams per tonne gold, 3.3 and 1.2 grams per tonne silver with 0.247 and 0.383 per cent copper (Assessment Report 27638).

In 2016, a float boulder sample (MA456725) from the occurrence area of epidote-chlorite–altered monzonite porphyry with quartz veins hosting chalcopyrite assayed 0.083 gram per tonne gold, 26.2 grams per tonne silver and 2.74 per cent copper (Assessment Report 36482).

In 2018, a sample (S851302) from a rusty fractured zone adjacent to a feldspar porphyry dike with strong chlorite-pyrite-sericite alteration and narrow quartz-pyrite veinlets, located 900 metres to the east-southeast, assayed 0.108 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 38241).

Work History

Subsequent to staking the Peregrine and Falcon A claims in 1985 for Multinational Resources Inc, a 5-man crew completed contour soil sampling and limited stream sediment sampling. A 1986 rock and soil sampling program was successful in locating significant base metal and precious metal values in Areas "A" and "B". In 1989, Multinational Resources Inc conducted an exploration program on their Peregrine and Falcon A claims. Several new showings were reported to have been discovered and trenches were blasted or hand-dug. Fifty seven rock samples were collected.

In 1995, AGC Americas Gold Corp acquired 6 new claims totaling 120 units which tie onto the eastern boundary of their JD property (see 094E 171). This initial program was set up to sample gossans or zones of alteration seen on the property. Work was largely restricted to the Hairy claim in the north and Spur claim in the south. It resulted in the discovery of the JD-Hairy showing (094E 235). Work on the Spur occurred in the area of the Falcon A2 (094E 185) and Falcon A1 (094E 184).

In 2004, Stealth Minerals held the Gordo Group of claims which covered the Joanna occurrences and the Falcon occurrences (094E 185 and 185) to the south and Oxide Peak occurrences (094E 179, 180 and 181) to the west. Stealth collected 854 rock samples for analysis and 274 samples were taken PIMA rock spectroscopy for alteration identification (Assessment Report 27638). Ten silt and 30 soil samples were also taken. A number of samples were taken collected in the vicinity of the Falcon A2 (094E 185) and the Falcon A1 (094E 184) showings.

In 2005, Stealth Minerals Ltd. completed a further program of prospecting, geological mapping and rock sampling on the Gordo-Too-Oxide property.

In 2014, a program of prospecting and geological mapping was completed on the area as the Tod property.

In 2016, Seven Devils Exploration Ltd. completed a program of prospecting and rock sampling on the area.

In 2018, Arcwest Exploration Inc. conducted a program of geological mapping and minor rock sampling on the area.

See Joanna West (094E 175) for related information on the Joanna property to the immediate north.