The Hawk Property was acquired by Redcorp Ventures Ltd. in late 2001 for its potential to host significant high-grade gold and disseminated copper-gold mineralization. The property is located about 310 kilometers northwest of Prince George, B.C. in the Omineca Mountains and is road accessible. Redcorp holds a 100% interest in the 7 claims totaling 98 units (2450 ha) which make up the property.
Work to date has defined five main gold + silver +/- copper veins; the AD vein, the Radio North vein, the Radio South vein, the Zulu vein and the Rainbow vein.
In addition to the known veins, several significant soil and rock sample anomalies have not yet been evaluated. These include several rock samples which assayed as high as 30.6 gpt gold which are not related to the known veins. Additional work is required to evaluate these high-grade gold zones. Redcorp is looking to joint venture the property.
Property Description and Location
The Hawk gold-copper property is located in the Omineca mountains of north central British Columbia, 310 km northwest of the city of Prince George (Figure 1) and lies on NTS map sheet 94C/04. The Hawk Property is easily accessible by vehicle via existing all-weather logging roads from either Mackenzie or Fort St. James.
Project History
The area in the vicinity of the Hawk property was first staked by Amoco Canada in 1972 following a regional exploration program aimed at discovering copper-molybdenum porphyry deposits within the Hogem Batholith. Amoco drilled four holes in 1974, none of which were assayed for gold content. Amoco's target was disseminated copper mineralization apparently hosted in a biotite / muscovite gneiss unit trending northwesterly and located immediately northeast of the Radio zone. No subsequent work has been conducted on this zone.
The Amoco claims were allowed to lapse, and no work was recorded until the area was staked by Cyprus Gold (Canada) Ltd. in 1990. Gold mineralization at the AD, Radio and SW zones was discovered by Cyprus during a reconnaissance program of geological prospecting, soil and rock sampling and proton mag surveying. Several significant, open-ended copper soil anomalies were outlined by Cyprus but were not followed up. The gold zones were subject to more detailed grid mapping, soil and rock sampling, mag/VLF surveying and hand trenching.
Encouraged by the results of the surface sampling, Cyprus completed 8 BQ diamond drill holes totaling 898 m in October of 1990. The best results from this program were 7.1 gpt gold over 5.15 meters (including 12.4 gpt gold over 2.7 meters) in hole HK 90-1 and 10.6 gpt gold over 2.8 meters in hole HK 90-2. Both of these holes were drilled on-section with the AD showing, where surface sampling returned 96.0 gpt gold over 3.0 m
Redcorp Ventures Ltd. re-staked the initial claims in late 2001, acquired the HK3 and HK4 claims early in 2002, and staked additional claims in June of 2002.
Deposit Types
There are two types of mineralized occurrences at Hawk; structurally controlled gold-silver+/-copper bearing veins and stockworks hosted by both syenite and granite, and disseminated copper bearing zones in syenite. The gold zones have been the focus of most of the past work.
An extensive program of surface prospecting and rock sampling was carried out in 2002. The program was successful in dramatically extending the strike lengths of the known veins. In addition, two very significant new veins were discovered and a number of high-grade samples from areas of poor bedrock exposure indicate the potential for additional discoveries is high.
The main auriferous veins discovered to date are the AD vein, the Radio veins, the Zulu vein and the Rainbow vein. Previous reports reference a vein called the "SW zone", however work in 2002 showed this to be an extension of the Radio veins. In addition to these four distinct veins, the presence of other veins is indicated by rock samples collected from several areas of poor bedrock exposure on the property. Additional work is required to uncover and evaluate these other veins.
The Hawk veins are typically white to grey, coarse-grained quartz containing trace to 40% sulphides (pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena) and hematite. Gold mineralization occurs within the sulphide-bearing quartz veins and stringers. Visible gold has been noted in the Radio and Zulu veins.
Rock and drill core samples collected in 2002 show distinct positive correlations between gold and copper (0.51), silver (0.53), and bismuth (0.60). Clots of massive scheelite were noted in the Zulu vein, often associated with coarse galena.
Geological Setting
The Hawk Property straddles the contact between two phases of the Hogem Batholith which forms part of the Quesnel Terrane. The northern part of the property is underlain by the calk-alkaline granite phase of the batholith while syenite of the Middle Jurassic Duckling Creek Syenite Complex underlies the southern part. The contact between these two units runs roughly east-west through the middle of the property.
The property sits at the northwestern extent of the Duckling Creek Syenite body, which measures some 35 kilometers long by 8 kilometers wide. This syenitic phase of the intrusive complex is associated with numerous copper and gold occurrences including the Lorraine Property.
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