The Kitt 1 (EC90-26) occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 1230 metres on a northeast-facing slope, west of Finlayson Creek and approximately 2.1 kilometres south of the creeks’ junction with McDame Creek.

The area is underlain by argillite, interbedded volcanic rocks, chert and listwanite of the Upper Paleozoic Slide Mountain Complex.

Locally, massive meta-basalt and/or andesite flows host quartz veins with pyrite.

In 1990, sampling of trenches EC90-26a and EC90-26b yielded 6.8 and 1.4 grams per tonne gold with 50.0 and 74.1 grams per tonne silver, respectively (Assessment Report 21548).

Work History

The area has been historically explored on conjunction with the nearby Erickson (MINFILE 104P 029) and a regional complete exploration history can be found there.

In 1990, Erickson Gold Mining completed a program of trenching, 13 diamond drill holes, totalling 1639.9 metres, an 18.0 line-kilometre ground electromagnetic survey and a 45.3-line-kilometre induced polarization survey on the Wildcat 13 and 15-16, AA, GO, Jog 1-6, Kitt 1 and Bit claims.

During 2008 through 2010, Hawthorne Gold Corp., later China Minerals Mining Corp., completed regional programs of geological mapping, 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 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.