The 1622 ha Kalum Property is located 35 km NW of Terrace, BC.  Numerous high-grade, vein-type gold occurrences have been explored over 80 years for high-grade stand-alone mineralization. Eagle Plains has consolidated these gold occurrences into one property.

Project Highlights

• Intrusion-related gold target
• Encouraging exploration to date including mineralized drill intercepts
• Excellent geology with multiple high-grade gold +/- occurrences
• Numerous untested coincident geochemical and geophysical anomalies
• Excellent infrastructure - highway, logging roads, NW Transmission Line, 35 km to Terrace

 

Geology of the Kalum Property

The Kalum Property lies within the Ki mat Range of the Coast Mountains physiographic subdivision, 10 kilometers west of the boundary with the Nass Range section of the Hazelton Mountains physiographic subdivision.

The Coast Mountains comprise Jurassic-age and older sedimentary and volcanic rocks that have been intruded by the Cretaceous Coast Crystalline Complex. This belt of granitic rocks stretches from Vancouver into the Yukon, and consists chiefly of granodiorite, quartz diorite and diorite.

The Kalum Property is centered on an irregularly shaped granodioritic pluton that has surface dimensions of approximately 8 by 12 km. This pluton and many associated smaller intrusions were emplaced into Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous Bowser Lake Group sedimentary rocks. Bowser Lake Group rocks on the property comprise a monotonous package of arenite, greywacke, siltstone and mudstone, with lesser carbonaceous mudstone and conglomerate.

The structural architecture of the rocks on the Kalum property can be described in terms of five main structural elements. These are: bedding, intrusive bodies (sills/dykes and pluton contacts), mineralized veins, faults and joints.

 

History of the Kalum Property

1928 - The first reference to mineralization in the current claim area was from the Minister of Mines Annual Report, which noted a 30.0-cen meter sample collected from the main Mar n vein that assayed 8.2 g/t Au, 137 g/t Ag, and 4.0 per cent Pb

1945 - Staking of the Chris vein by S.R. Ling and W. Jorgenson 1950 - Trenching at the Chris vein by Lake Expanse Gold Mines Ltd.

1959 - Samples from trenching at the Chris vein averaged 0.5 oz/t Au and 2.8 oz/t Ag, with assays up to 4.96 oz/t Au and 173 oz/t Ag.

1962 - Kootenay Base Metals drove a 57.1m (202-foot) adit into the Chris vein structure.

1979 - Don Young and Peter Ogryzlo staked the KM and Drum claims follow up a reconnaissance geochemical survey sponsored by the B.C. Dept. of Mines and Petroleum Resources. Reconnaissance prospecting and following float and stream sediment dispersion trains led to the discovery and acquisition of the Hat and Flare claims in 1980.

1979-1987 - Don Young and Peter Ogryzlo conducted additional staking, stream sediment sampling, soil sampling, prospecting and geological mapping. Over 30 mineralized veins were discovered and sampled with some of the better mineralization on associated with ankeritic alteration. The first recorded assessment work on the Hat showing area was in 1981. The report concluded that precious metal values appeared to be associated with quartz-arsenopyrite veins, which in turn appear to be associated with a diorite intrusion

1980 - The Chris was restaked by Prism Resources, and their work involved clearing the portal, cleaning and mapping the adit. It was discovered that the 1962 adit appeared to have missed the major shear vein system exposed on surface in the area of the portal.

1981 – Prism’s work at the Chris vein included l22.7 meters (402.5 feet) of IAX drilling in five holes, geological mapping, cleaning, blasting, and sampling of 23 old and new trenches, installing a geochemical 400 meter-by-250 meter grid with a 50-meter line spacing and a 25-meter sample spacing, collecting a total of 99 samples, and conducting a topographic survey of the two previously mentioned grids. The results indicated that gold and silver values were relatively consistent throughout the 300-meter length of the main vein system.

2003 - Eagle Plains Resources staked a significant land package west of Kitsumkalum Lake, which included the area covered by the current Kalum claim group.

2003 – 2012 - Eagle Plains Resources Ltd. completed significant exploration programs on the greater Kalum property, including airborne and ground based geophysics, geological mapping and prospecting, extensive reconnaissance contour and grid soil geochemical sampling, silt sampling and diamond drilling. In total, 1150 soil samples, 384 rock samples, 40 silt samples were collected, plus 1907 meters of diamond drilling was conducted in 16 holes, in addition to airborne VTEM geophysics, geological mapping and prospecting. The following work and discoveries are of note:

● 2003 - Geological mapping and prospecting, rock grab and channel sampling, and stream and soil sampling was very successful and defined numerous new, high-grade zones of Au-Ag mineralization, including the discovery of two new showings: the Bling-Rico and the Tojo by Eagle Plains Resources Ltd.

The Bling showing is a coarse grained, massive quartz vein up to 20 centimeters thick with significant pyrite and lesser galena. Grab sampling of the Bling vein yielded best assays of 6.1 grams per tonne gold and 6.8 grams per tonne gold with very low silver values.

The Rico is a mostly massive, coarsely crystalline vein with surrounding quartz stringer and breccia zones, with a total width of approximately 2.5 meters. Grab and channel sampling across the Rico vein yielded very encouraging, high grade gold values.

The Tojo is an area of sheeted quartz veins, with high Au-Ag grades, hosted in strongly ankerite-altered granodiorite south-west of the Chris vein. The veins are generally 1 to 20 cm thick and have densities of between 2 and 10 per linear meter. The Tojo zone highlights the sheeted vein, intrusion-hosted, bulk-tonnage Au-Ag potential of the Kalum property.

The 2003 work by Eagle Plains confirmed that the Kalum property is highly prospective for Au-Ag epithermal vein-type deposits.

 ●  2004 – Eagle Plains continued exploration for an intrusion-related gold deposit on its Kalum property. Work included a VTEM airborne geophysical survey, extensive silt and soil geochemical sampling, geological mapping and prospecting, and an 11 hole, 918m diamond drill program at the Chris and Bling-Rico areas. Six drill holes tested the Chris gold-bearing quartz-arsenopyrite vein over a strike length of about 150 meters, east of previous drilling. One significant intersection was obtained, 16.3 grams per tonne gold over 0.3 meter. 


 ●  2005 - Analysis of results derived from the 2003 - 2004 geological programs led to the focus of work in the Hat area, with three new high grade Au showings discovered followed by a three hole 569m diamond drill program. Results from the surface programs were very encouraging. 


  ●  2012 – Two diamond drill holes (420 meters) tested the southern strike extension of the Bling-Rico structure at lower elevations than the 2004 drilling. Although the drilling failed to intersect notable mineralization in the two holes, the pervasive altera on assemblages and their relationships to geology are similar to previous mineralization intersections and suggest that the Bling-Rico zone is a large scale continuous hydrothermal feature.

There have been a total of 21 historical diamond drill holes for a total of 2030 meters completed within the current Kalum property tenure with the 2012 drillings being the most recent. Rex Resources has not completed any drilling on the Kalum property.

2020 – The most recent work on the Kalum property, funded by Rex Resources, included airborne magnetic and radiometric geophysics, airborne LIDAR and orthophoto and a two day field program ground truthing access and locations for the proposed 2021 work. The purpose of LiDAR survey was to provide a very detailed map of the property surface. When used in conjunction with the high resolution orthophoto the imaging will help to locate drill pads in areas of flatter terrain and no vegetation. In addition, the orthophoto/LiDAR pairs can be used to trace structures which may reflect zones of shearing or vein emplacement.

Planned mineral exploration of the Kalum Property in 2021

A focused exploration program to further evaluate and expand the high-grade mineralization intersected at the Bling-Rico area is planned. In early December 2020, an application was made to the BC Ministry of Energy and Mines for a Multi -Year Area Based Permit for future exploration work on the Kalum, authorizing up to 30 diamond drill holes and 10 helipads over a 5 year period.

Year1 proposed work is for up to six drill holes and three helipads located in the Bling-Rico area. Historical drilling by Eagle Plains has generated high-grade Au intercepts at the Rico showing which returned 35g/t Au over 2.5m from 101.8m to 104.3m; including a 0.5m interval that assayed 107g/t Au. A short field program of detailed structural mapping and prospecting, in conjunction with ground truthing of viable drill pad locations in the steep terrain in the Bling-Rico area will be used to locate the op mum location to test for mineralization north (upslope) of the 2004 drilling.