The Juniper occurrence is located approximately 1 kilometre north of Juniper Mountain and 25 kilometres southeast from the former town of Cassiar.
The area is underlain by Pennsylvanian to Permian Slide Mountain Complex volcanics and Upper Triassic Slide Mountain Complex sediments. Sedimentary lithologies include slate, shale, argillite, calcareous siltstone and limestone. Volcanic rocks include basalt and tuff. The major volcanic unit are basalt flows and pillow lava. Above the basalts is a shale/argillite unit and the contact zone between the basalts and shales are thought to be thrust faults. Another fault strikes generally east-west for one kilometre within a southern argillite unit. Sedimentary black shales along the main ridge within the claims have been altered to argillite for hundreds of metres. Also, secondary quartz veinlets have invaded the argillite in several places on the ridge. Basalt flows and pillow lava are found under the sedimentary unit. The basalt unit makes up most of the cliff face below the ridge.
Hydrothermal alteration has invaded this basaltic unit through iron and carbonate enrichment to form an orange or rusty weathered appearance. Ankerite and chlorite along with pyrite, are visible alteration products within the basaltic unit. This iron carbonate alteration zone can be traced for 1000 metres along the cliff face east into a cirque. A separate alteration feature found in the cirque comprises listwanites with iron carbonate and mariposite. The listwanites are found at three locations within the basaltic unit. The largest listwanites are found in the cirque and can be traced for 100 metres. A new listwanite discovery was also found at the opposite end of the cliff face closer to Juniper Creek.
Pyritic mineralization is most developed in secondary silicification and host basalt. The pyrite occurs as disseminations and veinlets along fractures in altered rocks. It can also be found with the carbonatization of the basalt as rusty streaks and blotches.
In 1995, two rock chip samples (R12 and R22), taken several hundred metres apart along a fault zone, assayed 2.3 and 1.5 grams per tonne gold, respectively, whereas another rock chip sample (R16), taken from the ridge located approximately 600 metres to the east of the previous two samples, assayed 1.6 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 24591). In 1998, a rock chip (GS9803) collected near a fault zone on a ridge assayed 38.9 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 26041).
Work History
In 1989, the Juniper claims were staked by owner J. Telegus and prospecting and rock sampling was carried out. In 1995, the Gold Stock property was prospected by owner J. Telegus and 36 rock chip samples and 7 moss mat samples were collected and sent for analysis. In 1996, Cartaway Resources Corp. completed a 3678.0 line-kilometre airborne magnetic survey on the area as the Hot Tip property. In 1998, J. Telegus continued prospecting and rock chip sampling on the Juniper claims.
During 2008 through 2010, Hawthorne Gold Corp., later China Minerals Mining Corp., completed regional programs of geological mapping and geochemical (rock and soil) sampling, and 11,657 line-kilometres of airborne magnetic, radiometric and electromagnetic surveys on the area as the Cassiar Gold property.
In 2013, China Minerals Mining Corp. completed a program of rock, silt and soil sampling on the area.
In 2019, Margaux Resources completed a program of prospecting, geological mapping and rock sampling on the area as the Cassiar Gold property. In 2020, Cassiar Gold Corp. completed a program of regional photogeological interpretation, prospecting and rock sampling on the Cassiar Gold property.
