The Virginia Creek occurrence is just west of the Todd Creek Valley, approximately 35 kilometres northeast of Stewart.
The Virginia Creek area is characterized by propylitically altered Lower Jurassic Unuk River Formation (Hazelton Group) andesitic pyroclastic volcanic rocks and interbedded sediments with a weak to locally strongly developed structural fabric. Quartz-carbonate-epidote +/- pyrite, sphalerite and galena occur as veins and stockworks. In 2009, a rock chip sample (429655) was taken from an oxidized outcrop of crystal tuff breccia on the north side of Virginia Creek and assayed 11 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 31671).
Noranda had historically carried out reconnaissance geochemical surveys in the Virginia Creek area on the streams on the north and south sides of Virginia Creek. On the north side of the creek, Noranda follow-up silt and soil sampling confirmed the presence of a 350-metre-wide lead-zinc-silver anomaly. Lead, zinc and silver values ranged up to 1252 parts per million, 1939 parts per million and 19.5 parts per million, respectively. In 1990, follow-up geological traverses apparently failed to locate the source of the anomalies.
A 2017 moss mat sample W366610, taken Millrock Resources Inc about 150 metres downstream from 2009 rock chip sample 429655, was strongly anomalous in arsenic (601 parts per million) and molybdenum (25.8 parts per million) and moderately anomalous in silver (1.1 parts per million) and antimony (8.5 parts per million) (Assessment Report 37268, Table 4 and Map 2a(1)). Stream sediment sample W366613, about 1 kilometres northeast of W366610, yielded 61 parts per billion gold, 28.4 parts per million silver, 106 parts per million arsenic, 126.5 parts per million lead, 944 parts per million zinc and 24.4 parts per million antimony (Assessment Report 37268, Table 3 and Map 2a(1)). Two other stream sediment samples were obtained from streams between samples W366610 and W366613, all draining from the same ridge.
Refer to Todd Creek-South zone (104A 001) for a detailed work history of the Todd Creek property area showings.
