Drill core from diamond drill hole TW05-02, exhibiting coarse free gold grains within a silicified, carbonatized ultramafic rock. The interval containing these core pieces is 10.67 to 11.58 metres (0.91 metre width) and assayed 2397.59 g/t gold. This drill hole is located near the centre of the proposed micro-pit from which the 10,000 tonne bulk sample will be extracted. |
Drill core from diamond drill hole TW05-02, exhibiting coarse free gold grains within a silicified, carbonatized ultramafic rock. The interval containing these core pieces is 10.67 to 11.58 metres (0.91 metre width) and assayed 2397.59 g/t gold. This drill hole is located near the centre of the proposed micro-pit from which the 10,000 tonne bulk sample will be extracted. |
Drill core from diamond drill hole TW05-02, exhibiting coarse free gold grains within a silicified, carbonatized ultramafic rock. The interval containing these core pieces is 10.67 to 11.58 metres (0.91 metre width) and assayed 2397.59 g/t gold. This drill hole is located near the centre of the proposed micro-pit from which the 10,000 tonne bulk sample will be extracted. |
Drill core from diamond drill hole TW05-02, exhibiting coarse free gold grains within a silicified, carbonatized ultramafic rock. The interval containing these core pieces is 10.67 to 11.58 metres (0.91 metre width) and assayed 2397.59 g/t gold. This drill hole is located near the centre of the proposed micro-pit from which the 10,000 tonne bulk sample will be extracted. |
E. Caron diamond drill on Yellowjacket Zone in March 2006. |
Bulldozers used in diamond drill program, spring 2006. |
Driller Randy Skillen at the controls of the E. Caron Val D'Or diamond drill on the Yellowjacket Zone. |
Reverse circulation percussion drill of Encore Drilling putting in hydrogeological monitoring wells adjacent to micro-pit area of Yellowjacket Zone, under the supervision of BGC Engineering |
Peter E. Walcott and Associates conducting GPR (ground penetrating radar) and GPS survey of micro-pit area of Yellowjacket Zone. |
Packer test equipment being lowered down a diamond drill hole adjacent to the micro-pit area to monitor groundwater pressures in bedrock, supervised by BGC Engineering. |
Excavation of Pine Creek diversion route. |
Excavation of Pine Creek diversion route. |
Fish salvage along original Pine Creek channel after creek diversion, supervised by Taku River Tlingit First Nation Fisheries Department. |
Fish salvage along original Pine Creek channel after creek diversion, supervised by Taku River Tlingit First Nation Fisheries Department. |
Beginning of excavation of micro-pit for collection of 10,000 tonne bedrock bulk sample, Yellowjacket Zone. |
TJ Esquiro of Atlin Tlingit Development Corp. collecting water samples for baseline studies along Pine Creek. |
Pine Creek Significant Drill Intercepts |
Atlin Placer gold |
The Pine Creek area is easily accessed via an all-weather gravel road only 6 kilometers outside Atlin. |
With a 4-wheel drive vehicle one can access all parts of the property. |
Teresa Island and Atlin Lake |
Large-scale hydraulic placer mining in the Atlin area in the early 1900's. |
View SW from placer |
Pine Creek gold: Note how the placer gold often exhibits evidence of minimal transport and local provenance. Here we have a flat 2 ounce nugget, originally a vein and several crystalline gold specimens. |
Pine Creek Gold - 1998 production: These nuggets (and the amalgamated mass of gold) were recovered from the Pine Creek placer deposit by Mr. Lenard Diduck. |
Pine Creek placer gold: Gold nuggets recovered from the Pine Creek placer by Mr. Lenard Diduck. The Canadian 25 cent coin (diameter 2.3 cm) gives the scale |
Pine Creek |
Queenstake area: This is where Queenstake Mining stripped the placer deposits in the 1980s. Here rich deposits of sheet and wire gold were recovered in a few days after start-up. |
Bedrock carbonate below Pine Creek placer: Outcrops of the sub-placer bedrocks include both ultramafic rocks and this carbonate lithology. |
Homestake drill sites: The site of some of the 1980s drilling by Homestake. |
Homestake drill sites: More of Homestake's drill-sites from the 1980s. |
Homestake's core racks: A considerable amount of Homestake's core is still on the property. |
Core racks from the 1980s: The core boxes are still well labelled with aluminum tags and plastic dymotape. The depth markers are well preserved and even the assay tags are still stapled on the boxes.
116 KB, approx. 23 seconds |
Unsplit ultramafic rocks: These veined and fractured ultramafics are serpentinized but not altered by carbon dioxide-rich fluids. |
Unsplit ultramafic rocks: Here we see unsplit (un-assayed) cores of fractured and veined ultramafic rocks which are serpentinized. |
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Listwanite: A saccharoidal, carbonate-rich rock which was a serpentinized ultramafic rock before hydrothermal metasomatism. The listwanite alteration is the typical associate of the gold mineralization in such deposits. |
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