System Type:
Epithermal, quartz veining, breccia and stockwork zones
Strike-Length:
The Declaration target has 800 meters of strike length with the potential northern extension obscured by post-mineral cover.
Resource:
None at this time
Location:
The Declaration target lies on the Utah side of the Gold Springs project and is situated 600 metres west of the North Jumbo resource and adjoins the Juniper target.
Drilling:
None to date.
Geophysics:
Declaration is situated along the western edge of a strong CSAMT (ground) and ZTEM (airborne) geophysical surveys’ resistivity highs (see maps below). The North Jumbo resource is situated along the eastern edge of these same resistivity anomalies.
Geology:
Declaration represents a high-grade target and is a vein system with a dominant banded quartz vein averaging 0.5 metres in width and is hosted within altered andesite. Alteration consists of quartz-sericite development associated with the vein extending out for up to 50 metre widths. Adjacent to the vein, the host rock is brecciated and strongly silicified with stockwork veining continuing into the wallrock. The quartz vein connects with the historically-mined Independence vein system to the south, and can be traced for 800 metres along strike to the north. Together with breccia/stockwork zones and altered host rock the target area has a width of 50 metres.
Structural Geology:
The southern portion of the Declaration target is centered on a structural intersection between the major Etna fault, which is an important feature of the South Jumbo mineralization, and a northwest striking splay fault which hosts the vein and breccia zones. There are several small historic diggings located at this structural intersection which is generally obscured by post-mineral cover.
Historical Mining:
The quartz vein at Declaration is a continuation of the Independence Vein, which features extensive historic workings. There are several shallow shafts and pits along the exposed strike length of the vein. GRC sampling of the vein has returned values as high as 10.23 g/t gold equivalent.
Geochemistry:
Surface sampling along the Declaration target has been conducted by the Company (see table below) and in the past by Astral Mining. Significant gold values have come from the vein and the breccia zones surrounding the vein. The Declaration vein consistently returns +1 g/t Au with variable silver grades from 5 - 153 g/t Ag. The highest-grade sample returned 9.46 g/t Au and 55.5 g/t silver.
Table: Rock chip sampling results from Declaration:
|
Sample |
Sample Type |
Target |
Description |
Au g/t |
Ag g/t |
|
87410 |
Dump |
Declaration |
Massive and vuggy quartz vein. |
4.90 |
183 |
|
87412 |
Dump |
Declaration |
Banded white quartz vein chips |
0.54 |
41.6 |
|
87413 |
Dump |
Declaration |
Silicified host rock to banded white quartz vein |
0.36 |
28.6 |
|
87414 |
Float |
Declaration |
Massive white quartz vein |
0.31 |
12.5 |
|
87415 |
Continuous, 0.5m |
Declaration |
Banded, bladed, massive and sugary quartz vein |
4.04 |
193 |
|
87416 |
Dump |
Declaration |
White massive and sugary quartz vein material, few bands of bladed textures. |
0.52 |
39.8 |
|
87417 |
Dump |
Declaration |
Breccia/stockwork quartz veining with angular silicified rhyodacite clast. |
0.92 |
21.4 |
|
87418 |
Discontinuous, 0.5m |
Declaration |
Massive white banded quartz vein with vuggy textures. |
0.37 |
2.9 |
|
87419 |
Dump |
Declaration |
White chalcedony and sugary quartz vein chips with vuggy textures. |
0.45 |
20.8 |
|
87421 |
Dump |
Declaration |
Massive and crystalline quartz vein with irregular banding |
1.07 |
17.3 |
|
87422 |
Dump |
Declaration |
White quartz vein with vugs of druzy quartz. |
4.02 |
111 |
|
87423 |
Dump |
Declaration |
Strongly oxidized quartz vein, with open vugs of crystalline hematite and limonite. |
5.40 |
153 |
| 87452 | Dump | Declaration | Brecciated andesite with quartz-calcite stockwork veining. Fault breccia at edges of veining | 0.84 | 10.1 |
| 87456 | Discontinuous, 20cm | Declaration | Massive quartz vein with stockwork white banded quartz veins at margins | 0.21 | 7.3 |
| 87458 | Float | Declaration | Banded, vuggy white quartz vein | 0.37 | 7.4 |
| 87459 | Float | Declaration | Banded, bladed quartz vein | 9.22 | 11.6 |
| 87460 | Float | Declaration | Silicified, brecciated andesite | 0.34 | 8.0 |
| 87464 | Dump | Declaration | Silicified, brecciated andesite | 2.14 | 4.6 |
| 87465 | Grab | Declaration | Weakly silicified porphyritic andesite | 1.20 | 4.3 |
| 87466 | Dump | Declaration | Brecciated and clay altered clast of andesite in white quartz cement with vugs of drusy quartz | 0.44 | 36.2 |
| 87472 | Dump | Declaration | Brecciated andesite with cross cutting quartz veins | 0.70 | 41.1 |
| 87473 | Dump | Declaration | Hydrothermal breccia with clay altered andesite clast | 0.91 | 16.1 |
| 103809 | Dump | Declaration | Drusy comb quartz veins | 1.01 | 5.0 |
| 103815 | Grab | Declaration | Stockwork quartz veins in a clay altered and iron oxidized rhyolite | 0.92 | 12.8 |
| 103816 | Float | Declaration | Milky white, bladed quartz vein | 0.26 | 4.5 |
| 103817 | Grab | Declaration | Oxidized drusy quartz vein in chlorite altered andesite | 0.34 | 6.0 |
| 103818 | Float | Declaration | Oxide stained vuggy quartz vein | 0.41 | 13.2 |
| 103820 | Dump | Declaration | Hydrothermal breccia with andesite clast | 0.27 | 6.1 |
| 103822 | Continuous, 1m | Declaration | Silicified hydrothermal breccia with stockwork drusy quartz veining and clay altered andesite clast | 0.55 | 1.4 |
| 103823 | Float | Declaration | Silicified hydrothermal breccia in andesite with microbreccia textures | 0.30 | 3.3 |
| 103828 | Continuous, 1.5m | Declaration | QSP altered andesite with vuggy, drusy stockwork quartz veining | 0.30 | 7.4 |
| 103829 | Grab | Declaration | Hydrothermal breccia with banded silica cement in andesite | 0.34 | 28.3 |
| 103831 | Dump | Declaration | Hydrothermal breccia in quartz-sericite altered andesite clasts | 1.64 | 228.0 |
| 103836 | Dump | Declaration | Hydrothermal breccia in andesite | 0.41 | 13.0 |
| 103865 | Float | Declaration | White drusy quartz vein | 1.42 | 38.5 |
| 103867 | Float | Declaration | White sugary quartz vein with perfect crystals of hematite | 9.46 | 55.5 |
| 103869 | Float | Declaration | Quartz vein with euhedral hematite crystals | 5.45 | 53.6 |
| 103842 | Grab | Declaration | Quartz stockwork in quartz-sericite altered rhyodacite | 0.58 | 3.6 |
| 103881 | Float | Declaration | Massive quartz vein | 0.61 | 8.8 |
A cutoff grade of 0.25 g/t Au was used, which is the cutoff grade of the nearby North Jumbo Resource.
