Projects / BA Project

The BA Project, which includes the George Copper-Gold Claims, is located 30 km east of Stewart, British Columbia, straddling paved highway 37A on the north flank of Cambria Peak, within the same stratigraphic horizon which hosts the Eskay Creek mine.

Prospecting at the George Copper claims in 2010 has resulted in discovery of multiple gold-bearing structures at BA.  A chip sample graded 9.09 g/t gold over one metre, with a grab sample from this zone returning a value of 38.50 g/t gold.

The host rocks are part of the upper Hazelton Group of the Stikine terrane, which comprises a series of Middle Jurassic bimodal volcanics deposited in a back-arc basin. The zinc-lead-silver mineralization is part of an exhalative volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS), base and precious metal mineralization system.

The property geology is folded into a predictable synclinal-anticlinal fold pattern that facilitates modeling and exploration. The felsic volcanic stratigraphic horizon which hosts the VMS mineralization has been mapped over a strike length of approximately 12 km at the BA Property.

Between 2006 and 2010, over 150 drill holes totalling more than 25,000 meters of diamond drilling have defined a silver-rich massive sulphide deposit with over 800 meters of mineralized strike and a width of greater than 250 meters in the Main zone at BA.

The Eskay Creek mine, a precious-metals rich VMS deposit which is situated in the same Hazelton Group stratigraphy as the BA Claims, produced an average of approximately 320,000 ounces of gold and 15.5 million ounces of silver per year of its operation. The Eskay Creek mine demonstrates the attractive nature of the VMS-hosting stratigraphy present at the BA Property.