Summary of the Greenwood Camp Gold-Copper
Kettle River Resources Ltd. owns a large land position within the Greenwood Mining District. This area covers approximately 25 square
kilometers. Gold and copper was originally discovered in the Greenwood Mining District in the late 1800's. Recent economic discoveries in nearby areas (by other companies) indicate there are more ore bodies to be found. This area is located in central British Columbia on the Washington border.
| 2007 Program - Greenwood Area Southern British Columbia (100%) Gold, Silver and Copper: The Kettle River Greenwood Area properties cover approximately 20 square kilometers, and include the past-producing Phoenix mine (27 million tonnes at 0.9% copper, 1.1 g/t gold). Detailed prospecting, rock and soil sampling during early 2007 identified target areas warranting further work, some of which has been reported as follows. For details refer to News Releases July 24th and August 27, 2007. |
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Minnie Moore |
Minnie Moore - Gold-Silver Epithermal Discovery: High silver values, 2,027 grams per tonne (“g/t”), encouraging gold values of 3.3 g/t, plus elevated base metals were found in a select grab sample during the spring 2007 prospecting program. Subsequent trenching exposed a limestone-hosted epithermal siliceous breccia zone. This is a new discovery and untested by any previous exploration. Results from chip sampling the trenches are expected in September 2007. Diamond drilling will test the zone and a contract has been signed with Beaupre Drilling for the fall drill program.
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Battle Zone:
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Situated less than a kilometer from the former Phoenix Minesite, mineralization occurs as stock working pyrite-quartz veinlets and as semi-massive pyritequartz shear zones within the same rocks that hosted the Phoenix deposit. Pyrite mineralization with elevated gold has been found in outcrop, subcrop and in shallow historic exploration pits, intermittently over an area of 250 meters by 850 meters, situated approximately 800 meters from the former Phoenix Mine. Road building for drill access along with further sampling and detailed geological mapping and representative chip sampling is being completed in preparation for drilling. The topography precludes trenching. |
| Links to other pages | Greenwood Area Map (April 2004) | |
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| Arcadia Project (Skylark) - Southern BC | ||
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Gold prospect: The Company plans geophysics to find gold
zones. Close to the time the Skylark Mine was shutting down,
drilling encountered gold occurring in a major fault called the Serp
Zone. The fault-hosted mineralization has greater tonnage potential
than the narrow silver vein mined in 1988. Selected results from
published information regarding the fault, report Hole RC86-18
encountering 30 feet of 0.367 opt gold. Underground percussion
holes within the fault, encountered in two separate holes 4 feet of
3.3 opt and 4 feet of 2.4 opt gold (Skylark Resources Ltd. News
release June 9, 1989.) The shallow dipping fault structure is 30 to
100 feet wide and hosts serpentine, quartz veins, silicified
mylonite and pyrite. The Serp Zone is a fault-hosted zone of gold mineralization straddling our property boundary and the adjoining Snowshoe Property. It was previously tested by 25 surface diamond drill holes and 18 surface reverse circulation holes with varying results. Drilling and underground work at the Serp Zone have located free gold occurring in irregular quartz veins in serpentinite. A decline, completed in 1987, provided underground access to the zone and 21 underground percussion (test steel) drill holes were completed. Previous exploration was confined to the mine area leaving large areas unexplored. Gold is often found to be associated with pyrite and the upcoming geophysical program will be designed to locate pyrite zones within the fault. The large Phoenix property lies between the Arcadia Project and the active exploration of Gold City Industries; both projects are exploring and developing structural controlled gold deposits.
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The Tam O'Shanter property was the main thrust of Kettle River's Greenwood area exploration in 1995. The Wild Rose zone is a major thrust fault along which a gold bearing quartz vein occurs. Drilling during 1992 and 1995 intersected the Wild Rose structure in 11 of the 14 holes testing the zone with widths ranging up to 2.9 meters and grades to 0.64 oz/t (20.16 g/t) gold. Testing of the newly discovered fracture alteration zone between the Golden Fleece and Laocoon areas was not conclusive. Prospecting cuts on recent road construction has greatly expanded this zone linking known areas to what now appears to be one large zone of fracturing and alteration. This makes it even more favourable for finding a significant ore body.
January 2004: To test the Wildrose Vein eight holes were drilled totaling 1,400 meters on three setups. |
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Summit Property (Bluebell):
The Summit property near Eholt (Bluebell - Pac D) was the site of a new gold discovery in 1996 as a result of a follow-up to anomalous gold in a soil survey. Gold mineralization hosted in silicified limestone appears controlled by both structure and stratigraphy. Initial trenching revealed a 30 foot wide zone, averaging 0.287 oz/t gold. Higher grades to 3.27 oz/t were encountered in this zone. The discovery outcrop is within 500 feet of the R.Bell copper skarn mine. This mine produced several hundred tons of greater than 7% copper near the turn-of-the-century. Subsequent drilling
did not extended mineralization to depth, although the discovery of gold in silicified limestone reveals a new style of mineralization with good exploration potential.
Work continues to evaluate numerous other targets existing on the property.
Oro Denoro Property (Bluebell)
This area is adjacent to Summit and includes the copper-gold Oro Denoro and Emma mines. A thorough re-evaluation and drilling shows that at least some of the gold in the system is a late event cross cutting the skarn mineralization, and is controlled by steep, north trending Tertiary faults. A drilling program in 1997 conducted by Echo Bay Mines encountered a very significant enlargement of an epithermal silica zone adjacent and on strike of the Emma skarn copper magnetite deposit.
Phoenix Tailings
The Phoenix tailings were drilled and the samples tested by a metallurgical lab. Flotation results were better than anticipated but present gold prices do not encourage further work at present.
