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Liv Property

The Liv property is 70 km northeast of Whitehorse and is accessible via winter road, helicopter, or fixed wing via airstrip. Exploration has returned up to >1% Cu, 0.33 g/t Au, 8.4 g/t Ag and 98 ppm Mo in oxidized Triassic basalt atop a 2-by-2 km magnetic high encompassed by a broader 4-by-4 km magnetic annular low, suggestive of a causative porphyry system nearby.

South-Central Yukon, 70-km from Whitehorse, 10-km from maintained airstrip; on winter trail

400 Hectares, 20 Quartz Claims

Accessible via fixed-wing or helicopter; or winter trail

Copper-Gold Porphyry & Skarn

Key Facts

  • Copper-gold porphyry target on leading edge of Stikine terrane, host to prolific Triassic aged copper-gold deposits in British Columbia

  • Adjacent to a broad flexure along the >1,000-km, crustal-scale strike-slip Teslin-Thibert fault system; Catch analogue

  • Main geochemical anomalies lie along edge of magnetic high within a broader 4-by-4 km “donut-shaped” annular magnetic anomaly

  • Numerous showings of copper and gold mineralization in an area of the Yukon previously unexplored for Triassic aged copper-gold porphyry deposits.

Project Summary

  • 100% owned, 5 sq. km property, 70-km north of Yukon’s capital city of Whitehorse in south-central Yukon within Kwanlin Dün and Ta'an Kwäch’än Council Traditional Territories first staked in 2021.

  • Winter road from Whitehorse provides direct access to project area

  • Two airstrips within 5-km of property; heavy equipment already in area from nearby placer mining operations

  • Mineralization occurs as pyrite, chalcopyrite and trace bornite adjacent to dykes, sheared and oxidized sediments and as disseminations within Triassic augite-phyric basalt

Regional Geology

The Property lies within the Stikine Terrane, adjacent to a large flexure along the 1,000+ km long Teslin-Thibert fault. The Teslin-Thibert’s southern extension terminates near the Kemess-Toodoggone porphyry-epithermal district. The Stikine is characterized by Late Triassic to early Jurassic volcanic-plutonic arc complexes host to porphyry-epithermal systems including the Red Chris, Schaft Creek, Kemess-Toodoggone, KSM and Galore Creek deposits and mines.​

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The main regionally mapped rock types on the property consist of:

  • Pennsylvanian Boswell Formation: Siliceous argillite, siltstone, sandstone, chert conglomerate, volcanic breccia, minor limestone

  • Upper Triassic Semenof Formation: Arc-related volcanic, volcaniclastic, and intrusive rocks/basalts

Property Geology

  • NE-trending Triassic augite-phyric basalt (Semenof) intrudes thrusted, brecciated and altered NW-trending Pennsylvanian argillite and siltstone (Boswell)

  • Occasional metre-scale NE-trending siliceous dykes of unknown age

  • Style of mineralization suggests nearby causative intrusion causing copper-gold mineralization

Historical Exploration

  • 1963: Originally staked as Snow by C. McLennan.

  • 1971: Restaked as Napua by L. Engle, who reported pyritic gossan in limestone, argillite, and andesitic volcanics near a historical placer area.

  • 2002: M. Lindsay restaked the area and conducted sampling, with peak values of:​

    • 0.82% Cu & 0.15 g/t Au, 0.48% Cu & 0.17 g/t Au, 0.44% Cu & 0.33 g/t Au

    • Mineralization found in hornblendite and gabbro, with malachite staining over 300m

    • The discovered showings were 1,300m apart

Liv Property Location Yukon BC

  • 2013: B. Kreft revisited and conducted prospecting, identified scattered hornfels and basalt outcrops.

    • Sampled pyritic hornfels and chalcopyrite-bearing basalt, with peak results of:

      • 0.51% Cu in coarse-grained basalt

      • Moderately anomalous Mo, Zn, and Ag

Modern Exploration

Recent exploration on the Liv Property consisted of geochemical surveys and geological mapping, resulting in:

  • Confirmation of historical showings

  • Discovery of new showings on the property

  • Identification of primary structural controls to mineralization

  • Identification of high tenor copper, molybdenum and gold soil anomalies that have yet to be followed up

Mineralized Zones

Three distinct occurrences of mineralization in outcrop were found on the property during prospecting

  • Showing A consists of minor subhedral pyrite and chalcopyrite along the margin and within medium grained white quartz-feldspar dykelets that have been injected into augite-phyric basalt. Minor malachite staining is also observed within fractures. Samples collected from this area returned:​

    • 0.69% Cu, 5 g/t Ag & 150 ppb Au

  • Showing B consists of blebby pyrite, chalcopyrite and trace bornite within medium-to-coarse grained augite phyric basalt in a glacially scoured outcrop in the south-central portion of the property. One sample had trace quartz veining associated with observable bornite mineralization. Samples collected from this showing returned: ​

    • >1% Cu, 8.4 g/t Ag, 57.7 ppb Au

  • Showing C consists of strongly oxidized, limonite and manganese-stained augite phyric basalt with minor malachite staining. Samples collected from this showing returned values of:​

    • 0.42% Cu, 6.6 g/t Ag, 18.5 ppb Au

Future Work

Future work recommendations in the central portion of the property include a drone magnetic survey, geological mapping, and induced polarization surveys. Results of this work would lead to mechanized trenching atop the most compelling targets on the property to identify surface mineralization beneath till, followed by diamond drilling.

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