Location and Access
The Boer property is located adjacent to Highway 16, and centered nine kilometers northeast of the resource town of Burns Lake, B.C. UTM Zone 10N: 6017000N/330000E, NTS maps: 093K/04 and 093K/05, Omineca Mining Division. Property main access is via Hwy 16, 20 kilometers east of Burns Lake then north by a Mainline logging road network (Augier and Co-op) to and around the Property. The Property topography is gentle relief typical of the B.C. Interior Plateau, and has been extensively clear-cut logged. The Property is located near excellent infrastructure including the resource town of Burns Lake, and related highways, grid power, natural gas pipeline and airport.
Description
The mineral potential at Boer was first identified by the Geoscience BC, Quest West Project conducted from 2008 to present. The lake and stream sediment geochemistry component of that study discovered highly anomalous silver in lake sediments (up to 2,000ppb) that are now covered by the Boer property. This large and intense Boer silver-in-sediments anomaly is ranked in the +95th percentile from RGS samples over a vast area of the B.C. Interior Plateau. In addition, the same sediment samples were anomalous in molybdenum, copper and mercury. The BC and Federal governments’ Airborne Magnetic Survey, 1967 and 1968, over the Burns Lake region shows several magnetic anomalies in the areas now covered by the Boer property. See Magnetic Maps for Sheets 93K/04 (5303G) and 93K/05 (5306G). Prospecting was conducted in the summer of 2012 following roads, natural gas pipeline, logging roads and clear-cuts. The Property is extensively covered with thin (<2 meters) glacial till (ice direction west to east), with only minor outcrop (<1 percent). The most interesting discovery made was a large hydrothermal breccia mineralized with sulfides (abundant pyrite, 182.4ppm molybdenum, 279.5ppm copper and 3.4ppm silver) in a mixed host rock of K-spar granite and hornblende diorite. In addition, the east part of the Boer property was covered by a 2001 Lodgepole pine outer bark survey (Colin Dunn, GSC) that covered a 130km (E/W) by 80km (N/S) area (724 samples). The four samples at the east end of the Boer property ranked in the top 1.3% for copper in the 724 samples. Bark sample No. 2455 (GSB survey) on the Boer property assayed 490ppm copper, which is more anomalous in copper than any Lodgepole pine outer bark samples over the Mt. Milligan or Prosperity porphyry copper deposits (these surveys also done by C. Dunn, GSC.
Geology
The geology of the region consists of: 1) a Mississippian to Triassic Cache Creek Group oceanic volcanic and sedimentary assemblage 2) the Upper Triassic dominantly mafic volcanic Takla Group 3) the Lower to Middle Jurassic Hazelton Group mafic to felsic volcanic and sedimentary rocks 4) the Upper Cretaceous to Lower Tertiary Ootsa Lake Group sedimentary and volcanic rocks and 5) the Oligocene and Miocene Endako Group. The region has been intruded by the Lower Jurassic quartz monzonite to granodiorite Topley Intrusive Suite, Upper Jurassic plutons of the Francois Lake Suite and plugs and stocks related to Upper Cretaceous and Tertiary volcanism (Minfile 093K033). Several K-Spar and quartz pegmatite dikes have been located on the Boer claims. Several outcrops indicate last glacial ice moved from west to east over the Property.
History
There is no mineral exploration history on the Boer property.
Additional Information
The Property is located in the BC Pine Beetle zone and qualifies for a 30% BC METC.