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File Created: 12-Mar-2012 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  11-Aug-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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Name GLACIER, KEN, GAB 10 Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104B086
Status Prospect NTS Map 104B15W
Latitude 056º 52' 17'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 130º 56' 26'' Northing 6304750
Easting 381720
Commodities Gold, Copper, Silver Deposit Types K04 : Au skarn
K01 : Cu skarn
K03 : Fe skarn
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Glacier area is underlain by Stikine Assemblage rock consisting of Upper Paleozoic volcanic and sedimentary rock of the Stikine Assemblage.

The Glacier occurrence consists of garnet-magnetite-epidote skarns having similar structural orientations as the Ken prospect to the north (104B 027). Although in general appearance these skarns appear similar to each other, certain features are unique to the Glacier Zone.

Within skarn alteration, gold mineralization correlates with the presence of chalcopyrite. Chalcopyrite is found infilling small vugs and as large euhedral crystals near skarn-augite porphyry contacts.

Two 1988 BQ diamond drill holes totalling 171.1 metres tested the depth extension of Au-Cu mineralization at the Glacier Zone. Zones of skarning hosted within massive volcanics were intersected between 10 metres and 30 metres below the trenches (Figure 13). Mineral assemblage includes epidote-magnetite- garnet-calcite plus/minus specular hematite, chalcopyrite, pyrite and pyrrhotite. Cumulative widths of skarn zones intersected total 8.1 metres in drill hole 88-PG7 and 11.7 metres in hole 88-PG8. Drill intersections assayed up to 1.65 over 1.5 metres in hole 88-PG8 (Assessment Report 18506). Chip sampling from trenches yielded a high assay of 3.84 grams per tonne gold, 15.4 grams per tonne silver and 1.46 per cent copper over 1.0 metre (Assessment Report 18506).

Approximately 100 metres north of the Glacier Zone, a northeast trending limonite-ankerite shear zone yielded anomalous gold values.

In 2013 Geotech Ltd. carried out a helicopter-borne electromagnetic (ZTEM) and aeromagnetic geophysical survey for Romios Gold Resources Inc over the Newmont Lake Block, comprising parts of the Newmont Lake property (Geophysics Report, Assessment Report 35016, Appendix VI). The following 21 mineral occurrences were covered by the survey: Ken (104B 027), 72 (Dirk) (104B (114), McLymont (104B 126), Northwest (McLymont), (104B 281), Jazzman (104B 282), Ridge (104B 325), Gab Northwest (104B 333), GAB 12 (104B 335), GAB 11 (104B 336), NEW (104B 379), Telena (104B 428), Bren (104B 429), Arseno (104B 432), Mon 2 (104B 433), Glacier Zone (104B 438), Camp Ridge (104B 441), Kirby NE (104B 442), Black Bear (104B 459), 2Bad (104B 460), Bridget (104B 462), O'Neil (104B 463.

In 2014, Romios Gold Resources Inc. conducted a prospecting and sampling program that included the evaluation of various showings and mineralized occurrences on the Newmont Lake and Trek Properties. A total of 314 rock chip samples and reconnaissance rock samples and 26 stream silt samples were collected.

In 2015, Romios Gold reported that a program of additional prospecting and sampling was carried out on the Burgundy Ridge discovery (Exploration and Mining in British Columbia 2015, page 135).

No work is reported for 2016 or 2017.

In January and February 2018 Geotech Ltd. carried out a helicopter-borne Versatile Domain Electromagnetic (VTEM) and aeromagnetic geophysical survey on behalf of Romios Gold Resources Inc. The survey covered three claim blocks: DIRK, KEN and NORTHWEST comprising parts of the Newmont Lake property and covered a total of 714 line-kilometres (Assessment Report 37492, containing Geotech Ltd. Geophysical Report (Appendix Two)). The KEN survy block covered the following mineral occurrences: Ken (104B 027), Matterhorn (104B 433), Glacier Zone (104B 438), 2Bad (104B 460), Mom's Peak (104B 462), O'Neil (104B 463).

Garnet-magnetite-epidote skarn-type copper-gold-silver mineralization occurs as an arcuate string of showings on the 2018 Ken geophysical survey block: Ken (104B 027), Matterhorn (104B 433), Glacier Zone (104B 438), 2Bad (104B 460), Mom's Peak (104B 462), O'Neil (104B 463). Syenite dikes intersected in drilling at the Ken and Glacier zones are scarce or absent at surface. A potential source pluton for the syenite dikes is indicated by a 1.5 kilometre long aeromagnetic high south of the Ken and 2Bad zones, west of Glacier and O'Neill occurrences, north of Matterhorn and east of Mom's Peak (Figure. 5, Assessment Report 37492). The closest VTEM anomaly is about 2.5 kilometres southeast.

In 2018, two chip samples (B068304 and B068112) from a 8-metre wide and at least 25-metre long iron carbonate vein located in the Ken-Glacier skarn zone assayed 30.3 and 32.5 grams per tonne gold, 135 and 25.5 grams per tonne silver with 11.5 and 10.4 per cent copper over 2.0 and 1.0 metres, respectively (Boyd, T. (2019-02-04): Independent Technical Report - Newmont Lake Property).

In December 2018, Crystal Lake Mining announced that it had acquired a 100 per cent interest in the 436 square kilometre Newmont Lake Project from Romios Gold.

In 2019, Crystal Lake conducted a drill program, on the Burgundy Ridge prospect area (104B 325) and the Northwest deposit. They also conducted extensive grassroots exploration.

See Ken (104B 027) for related work history and geology and see Northwest (104B 281) for details of work after the amalgamation of tenures by Romious Gold in the 2000s, when airborne geophysics was done over significant land areas and some specific work in the Glacier area was reported.

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