Properties BC Generative
Exploration Strategy
A significant component of BCGold Corp.’s South Quesnel porphyry copper-gold generative exploration strategy was to screen the recent releases of Geoscience BC QUEST-South geophysical and geochemical data files and aggressively stake open watersheds with anomalous silt sample copper values and geophysical signatures.
Hihium Lakes (North and South), Bonaparte and Rayfield
On October 6, 2010, BCGold Corp. staked four properties in Central B.C., targeting blind porphyry copper-gold deposits similar in style to the Afton-Ajax and Mount Polley copper-gold deposits. View News Release
The four properties (5,330 hectares), are road accessible and centred some 80 kilometres north-northwest of Kamloops, B.C. The properties are strategically located over coincidental geochemical and geophysical anomalies believed to represent concealed porphyry copper-gold hydrothermal systems associated with the composite Late Triassic-Early Jurassic Thuya Batholith.
BCGold Corp. crews completed a preliminary assessment and follow-up silt sampling program on all four properties. Results have been used to focus reconnaissance mobile metal ion (MMITM) soil surveys on each property, which are scheduled to be completed this month by Geotronics Surveys Ltd. of Surrey B.C.
Geoscience BC is a not-for-profit organization working with a variety of groups, including industry and government, to fund applied geoscience projects. The QUEST-South Project is part of Geoscience BC’s QUEST Project, which was initiated in 2007 to attract mineral exploration to an under-explored region of the Quesnel Terrane. The region has excellent potential for copper and gold porphyry deposits, but is covered by extensive blankets of post mineralization Tertiary volcanic flows and thick layers of glacial sand and gravel deposits.
Lauder Creek, Dartt Lake and Clear Range
On November 16, 2010, BCGold Corp. announced that the Company had staked three more properties in South Central B.C. that target blind porphyry copper-gold deposits similar in style to the Afton-Ajax and Mount Polley deposits. These properties lie south of the above mentioned Hihium Lakes (North and South), Bonaparte and Rayfield Properties staked by the Company earlier this year. All seven properties lie in the poorly exposed and highly prospective south central Quesnel Terrane region. View News Release
The three properties (4,289 hectares), named the Lauder Creek, Dartt Lake and Clear Range properties, are road accessible and situated in an east-west band 22 kilometres north of Merritt, spanning from 15 kilometres north of Lytton, eastward to Douglas Lake. The properties are located over anomalous drainage basins interpreted from new stream sediment geochemical results, which are in proximity to coincidental gravity and magnetic geophysical anomalies. BCGold Corp. management believes these anomalous zones may be related to concealed porphyry copper-gold hydrothermal systems.
Field crews have completed reconnaissance mobile metal ion (MMITM) soil surveys on each property. Properties with copper and gold (MMITM) anomalies will be followed up by infill geochemical and geophysical surveys in 2011 to define targets for subsequent drill testing.