Extract from MINFILE occurrences: 092HSE054, 092HSE174
Development status: Prospect
Name: WP, TARGET 4, GOLD HILL, GOLD MINE, HED
The WP showing is situated northwest of Whistle Creek, 9.5 kilometres west-southwest of the town of Hedley. Old workings of the Gold Hill prospect occur on the east flank of a north-trending ridge separating Whistle and Henri creeks, 5.0 kilometres west-southwest of Hedley.
Andesitic ash tuff and tuffaceous siltstone of the Upper Triassic Whistle Creek Formation (Nicola Group) underlie an extensive region encompassing the drainage area of Whistle Creek. A quartz stockwork breccia hosted in well-indurated black to grey argillite/siltstone is exposed along a roadcut 650 metres northwest of Whistle Creek. The 4.5-metre wide zone strikes north and dips vertically. The zone is comprised of a 2-metre wide central core of angular argillite fragments in a quartz matrix, surrounded by a peripheral zone of weak to moderate quartz stockwork veining.
The quartz matrix contains minor fine-grained pyrite in rusty boxworks. A chip sample taken over 1 metre analysed 0.720 gram per tonne gold and 2.1 grams per tonne silver (sample 88-20), and a grab sample analysed 0.050 gram per tonne gold and 5.9 grams per tonne silver (sample 88-26) (Assessment Report 18453, Figure 4).
Northpoint Resources Ltd. drilled the property in 1997. A 3-metre sludge sample assayed 960 grams per tonne silver and 0.2 per cent copper (GCNL #192(Oct.6), 1997).
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