Big Bear
The Big Bear property is located in the Omineca Mining Division, Nechako Plateau, in central British Columbia, covers 14,366 ha, and is 100% owned by Derrick Strickland.Access to the Big Bear property is provided by forestry gravel roads from the town of Vanderhoof located approximately 100 km north from the investigated area. Vanderhoof is the nearest supply place for food, gas and other necessities. Several lodges and a logging camp located in the area can provide emergency supplies.
Big Bear Locations Map
The Nechako Plateau lies within the Stikine Terrain. It was regionally uplifted, exposing a horst of Jurassic and Cretaceous volcanics and intrusives surrounded by Tertiary and younger volcanics and volcaniclastics. Extensional faulting and related structural activity plus associated extensive precious metal rich hydrothermal systems provide an attractive geological setting for precious metal high level epithermal, subvolcanic intrusive porphyry and transitional deposits.
Outcrop at the Big Bear property is limited, so much of what is known about the geology is based on work done by the B.C. Geological Survey and drilling on adjacent properties: Blackwater-Davidson and Capoose.
The Blackwater-Davidson property is operated by Richfield Ventures and is located adjacent to the southeast of the Big Bear property. At the Blackwater-Davidson property, disseminated gold mineralization is hosted in strongly fractured and silicified volcanic rocks correlated with the Kasalka Group, a unit of latest Cretaceous volcanic and subvolcanic strata.
As of the end October 2010, total drilling on the Blackwater-Davidson property reached 24,100 metres and defined a mineralized zone that extends over 600 by 800 m. Drilling intersected significant grades and lengths of gold with values of silver. Gold values are typically on the order of 1 g/t over hundreds of metres laterally and to depth, while silver is generally between 4 and 10 g/t over similar dimension. Currently, Richfield Ventures reported the drill intersections of 148 metres of 1.77 g/t Au and 171 metres of 3.13 g/t Au.
The Blackwater Gold Project at a cut-off grade of 0.40 g/t gold, has an estimated Indicated resource of 53.46 million tonnes at an average grade of 1.06 g/t gold containing 1.83 million ounces gold, and an additional 75.45 million tonnes at an average grade of 0.96 g/t gold containing 2.34 million ounces gold in the Inferred category.
The Capoose project is located immediately adjacent to the northwest of the Big Bear property and operated by Silver Quest. Numerous silt and moss mat samples located immediately northwest from the Big Bear property returned up to 1.64 g/t gold, and collected soil samples up to 0.54 g/t gold (Jag claims).
The Capoose deposit has inferred resources of 41.12 million ounces of silver at a grade of 23.93 g/t Ag and 699,032 ounces of gold at a grade of 0.41 g/t Au. Several kilometers to the southwest, the 3T-s gold-silver project is also operated by Silver Quest.
The Big Bear property located between two mineralized systems of Blackwater-Davidson and Capoose is highly prospective for discovery similar to the type mineralization as explored by Richfield Ventures and Silver Quest. Coincidentally the Big Bear property is also centered on a 2.5km diameter aeromagnetic high anomaly that extends to the Blackwater-Davidson and Capoose deposit.