The Bling-Rico occurrence is located about 13 kilometres west of Kitsumkalum Lake approximately 37 kilometres north-northwest of Terrace.

The Bling-Rico showing area is on the western margin of the main Allard stock, just north of Mayo Creek. Numerous quartz veins are hosted in greywacke along a north to north-northwest striking structural corridor. Mineralized boulders along Bling Creek initially led the exploration team to conduct soil sampling and prospecting toward the headwaters.

The Bling vein was discovered in 2003 by Eagle Plains Resources Ltd. This is a coarse grained, massive quartz vein up to 20 centimetres thick with signficant pyrite and lesser galena. Grab sampling of the Bling vein yielded best assays of 6.1 grams per tonne gold and 6.8 grams per tonne gold with very low silver values.

Further prospecting led to the discovery of the Rico vein. This is a mostly massive, coarsely crystalline vein with surrounding quartz stringer and breccia zones, with a total width of approximately 2.5 metres. Grab and channel sampling across the Rico vein yielded very encouraging, high grade gold values. Best results are 2.5 metres at 12.0 grams per tonne gold. Silver values are very low, mostly less than 15 grams per tonne. Alteration around the veins is cryptic, but appears to be weakly phyllic with minor carbonate.

Soil sampling over the Bling-Rico area resulted in the definition of a high grade, coherent, north-northwest striking soil anomaly. A peak soil value of 4948 parts per billion (ppb) gold was obtained from near the Rico vein. A greater than 100 ppb gold soil anomaly has a strike length in excess of 400 metres and a maximum width of approximately 130 metres and is open to the north. An outer zone of greater than 25 ppb gold has a strike length of about 1 kilometre and a maximum width of approximately 300 metres.

More veins and mineralized faults are present in this area but could not be reached for sampling during 2003. The Bling, Rico and other veins exist in an apparently en echelon array associated with mineralized faults oriented 165 degrees, dipping 72 degrees west. In general, the veins are more shallowly dipping (eg. Rico strikes 150 degrees, dipping 42 degrees west) than the faults and show significantly less deformation.

In 2004, a drill hole KRC04005 intersected 11.6 grams per tonne gold over a length of 0.9 metre, beginning at 0.9 metre from surface (Exploration and Mining in British Columbia 2004, page 33). Another drill hole (KRC04001) yielded 33.5 grams per tonne gold over 2.5 metres from 101.8 to 104.3 metres down hole, including 106.7 grams per tonne gold, 109 grams per tonne silver, 3.1 per cent lead and 1.2 per cent zinc over 0.5 metre (Daignault, P.M., Sharp, R.J. (2007-12-27): 2007 Exploration and Geological Report for the Kalum Property).

Work History

By 2003, Eagle Plains Resources Ltd. had acquired the 500-unit Kalum property to cover the Allard stock, a 4 by 11 kilometre intrusion that has been mapped west of Kitsumkalum Lake. The Kalum property encompasses several historically documented occurrences referred to in their 2003 Assessment Report 27417: Kalum (103I 019), Burn (103I 211), Quartz Silver (103I 018), Allard (103I 151), Misty (103I 213), Chris (103I 174), Martin (103I 020) and Hat (103I 173). Several new discoveries were made by Eagle Plains in 2003: Bling-Rico (104I 225), Tuppie (104I 228) and Tojo (104I 226).

In 2004, Eagle Plains Resources Ltd. continued exploration for an intrusion-related gold deposit on its Kalum property. The program comprised a 1500 line-kilometre airborne geophysical survey, on-the-ground evaluation of targets and the drilling of 19 holes, totalling 1958 metres. The geophysical survey recovered magnetic and time-domain electromagnetic data. Five holes targeted the vein in 2004.

In 2005, Eagle Plains Resources completed a program of soil, silt and rock sampling and geological mapping on the area.

In 2007, Mountain Capital Inc. optioned the property and in 2008 undertook a program of soil and rock sampling, a 4.1 line-kilometre induced polarization survey and 11 diamond drill holes on the Burn (MINFILE 103I 211) occurrence area. The option was terminated in May of 2009.

In 2009, Windstorm Resources Inc. entered into a Letter of Intent with Eagle Plains to earn a 60 per cent interest in the property and completed a program of prospecting, geochemical sampling and an induced polarization survey on the area.

In 2010, a program of geological mapping and six diamond drill holes, totalling 419.11 metres, were completed on the Tuppie-Cirque (MINFILE 103I 228) occurrence.

In early 2012, Clemson Resources Corp. entered into an Option Agreement with Eagle Plains Resources to acquire a 60 per cent interest in the property.

In 2020, Rex Resources completed a 247 line-kilometre airborne magnetic and radiometric geophysical survey on the area as the Kalum property.