The 1640ha Davies Property is located approximately 146 km northwest of Mackenzie and 60 km north-northwest of the community of Manson Creek, along the south side of the Osilinka River valley. The property is prospecive for Mississippi Valley Type ("MVT") critical-metal deposition and is accessible via a network of mainline logging roads from either Mackenzie or Fort St. James BC. while secondary FSR’s provide access to the mineral showings themselves.
The claims are 100% owned by Eagle Plains with no underlying royalties or encumbrances.
Highlights
- Encouraging exploration to date including mineralized drill intercepts
- Multiple untested geochemical anomalies associated with mineralization
- Excellent geology with multiple high-grade critical-metals occurrences
- Favourable geology for hosting a significant sulphide replacement zone
- Project is road accessible and transected by a electric transmission line
Geology
The regional geology surrounding the Davies Property consists of pericratonic North American rocks consisting of primarily carbonates and siliciclastics of miogeoclinal origin. These rocks include the Upper Proterozoic Ingenika Group consisting of quartzite, schist, phyllite, limestone, feldspathic wacke and arkosic sandstone, which is overlain by the Lower Cambrian to Middle Devonian Atan, Razorback, Echo Lake and Otter Lake Groups. These Groups consist of limestone, dolomite, shale, quartzite, and argillaceous limestone. Echo Lake Group limestone and dolomite units host the majority of the zinc, lead and silver mineralization.
The local geology underlying the Davies Property are Cambrian to Lower Devonian aged rocks, comprised of sandy and argillaceous dolomite, massive limestone, and minor calcareous slate. The sedimentary sequence forms a regional NW-plunging anticline that is offset by faulting and localized drag folding. Late NW-trending deformation has produced faulting and brecciation, predominantly in the dolomite carbonate rocks. Mineralization, such as sphalerite, galena, and barite, are found concentrated within the brecciated and faulted carbonate rocks.
Mineralization
Classified as “MVT” or Mississippi-Valley Type. The recrystallization of carbonate rocks created a low-temperature, hydrothermal solution that migrated through to stratigraphic traps such as fold hinges and faults. High concentrations of sphalerite and galena and barite formed within open-space fillings, cavities, collapse breccias, faults, and fracture-fillings in the dolomite rocks.
History
Early 50’s exploration work by Kennco Explorations consisted of biogeochemical sampling, with 15% of the samples returning greater than 90ppm Zn. Follow-up to the anomalous Zn-in-biochemical samples lead to the discovery of the Gordon and Davies mineral showings. Chip sampling was completed over sphalerite-galena mineralized carbonate rocks at both showings, returning 6% Zn over 4.0m at Davies and 2.6% Zn over 12.0m at Gordon.
During the 70’s, Canex (Aerial Exploration and Placer Ltd) completed multiple geological mapping, rock sampling, and soil sampling programs, following up the mineralization discovered at the Davies and Gordon showings. The soil sample program returned impressive results, up to 1.56% Zn, 5000ppm Pb, and 56 ppm Ag. Rock sampling results were equally as impressive, returning up to 20% Zn and 3.8% Pb. The exploration programs during the 70’s led to the discovery of the Upper Osprey, Molly, and Gwynn mineral showings.
In 1980, Placer Develops completed in-fill and line-extension soil sampling, as well as additional rock sampling at the newly discovered showings in the 70’s. Widespread soil anomalies were identified with greater than 1000ppm Zn and coinciding rock samples up to 10.7% Zn, 3.35% Pb, and 48ppm Ag, within brecciated and faulted carbonate rocks.
Between 1989 – 1990, William Halleran staked the claims and completed multiple 1-2 day prospecting and mapping programs. This period of work was the first that rock samples were analyzed for Au on the property. One quartz-ankerite vein was sampled, returning up to 3850ppb Au and 10.4ppm Ag. One sample from a dolomite breccia returned up to 2.1% Pb and 65.4ppm Ag.
In 1991, Cominco optioned the property from Halleran, and completed soil and rock sampling and geological mapping. This program led to the discovery of the Wasi Road (Osprey) mineral showing, consisting of sphalerite, galena, and calcite brecciated dolomite. Rock chip sampling returned up to 15.8% Zn and 0.3% Pb over 2.0m. Individual grab samples have returned up to 35.1% Zn. Additional sampling of sphalerite-enriched crackle brecciated dolomite returned up to 12,800ppm Zn, 5,422ppm Pb, and 14.7ppm Ag.
In 2001, the property saw the first drilling program, operated by Cross Lake Minerals, at the End Lake (Childhood Dream) mineral showing. Two drill holes totalling 146.2m tested the showings with results of 3.16% Pb and 10.4 ppm Ag over 1.6m and 2.14% Zn over 3.0m.
The last work program, in 2017, by Kreft Exploration, explored the Wasi Road showing in more detail and followed up a soil anomaly to the east of the Upper Osprey showing. A 0.6m chip sample returned up to 20.75% Zn, 1086 ppm Pb, and 31ppm Ag.
Eagle Plains Exploration
In 2023 Eagle Plains Resources compiled the available data for the Davies area. Plans are to conduct a ground-based geological reconnaissance program in 2023.
Future Work
- Data compilation – digitize historical geology maps, with focus on identifying areas of carbonate geology and structural measurements
- Exploration Program Phase 1a - Ground geophysics – Gravity, Magnetics, and IP
- Exploration Program Phase 1b – Geological mapping, with a focus on mineralizing structures, specifically within fold hinges and local drag folds. Follow-up Pb-Zn soil anomalies that have not been ground-truthed; follow-up gossanous outcrops identified on new road cups that have not been mapped nor sampled
- Exploration Program Phase 2 – Trenching and Channel sampling areas of interest for a better understanding of grade control in the carbonate rocks
- Exploration Program Phase 3 – Diamond Drilling to test areas of mineralization with corresponding and/or overlapping geophysical and geological AOI’s identified in Phases 1-2
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Updated January 4, 2024
