Mount Polley West Project

The 9663 ha MPW Project is located in south-central BC, 54 kms north-northeast of Williams Lake and adjoins Imperial Metals’ Mount Polley Property and Osisko Development’s past producing QR Deposit. 

Eagle Plains’ first claims in the region were acquired in 2022 with subsequent additions made through staking and third-party agreements.  Due to the proximity to the Mount Polley Mine Complex and extensive forestry activity in the area the project has excellent infrastructure including the paved Likely Road.

The MPW Project is prospective for porphyry copper-gold and epithermal gold deposits.

Project Highlights

• Large contiguous land position adjacent to two significant mineral deposits
• Excellent infrastructure that supports cost effective exploration
• Multiple documented intrusions similar in nature to the Mount Polley Intrusive Complex (MPIC)
• Coincident geophysical anomalies that support the presence of additional prospective intrusions
• Encouraging drill intercepts from minimal drilling

Geology

Bedrock exposure is somewhat limited throughout the MPW property with cover consisting of varying depths of glacial till with the predominant ice flow direction being from SE to NW.  Compilation of historical mapping, rock sampling, and limited drilling indicate several instances of intrusions on the property similar in nature to the MPIC.

The deposit at Mount Polley is described as being hosted by the Mount Polley Intrusive Complex (MPIC) which is a Late Triassic group of intrusions primarily monzonite and syenite, and magmatic-hydrothermal breccias.

History

Exploration in the region began in conjunction with the Caribou placer gold rush in the 1890’s with the first documented hard-rock exploration on the property in 1966 shortly after the discovery of the Caribou-Bell Deposit, now known as the Mount Polley Mine.

Eagle Plains Exploration

Sampling and analysis of glacial till can be an effective tool in vectoring toward bedrock sources of mineralization.  Till sampling by Eagle Plains in 2023 yielded up to 52 grains of gold in the NW of the property indicating the potential for an up-ice mineralized source.  Similar numbers of gold grains are found in tills down-ice from Mount Polley.  Overlapping radiometric and magnetic anomalies are also present in the central part of the project area which are consistent with the geophysical signature of Mount Polley.    

The compilation of historical work in conjunction with a review of modern geophysical surveys and results from 2023 are highly encouraging. Interpretation of historical data is ongoing and will lead to recommendations for future work which may include increasing till sample density toward the coincident geophysical anomalies, deep-looking airborne MT geophysics, ground IP geophysical surveys, mechanical trenching, and diamond drilling. 

Eagle Plains - A Project Generator

Eagle Plains Resources is a project generator with mineral exploration properties of merit that meet qualifying transaction requirements. While the Mount Polley West Property is not a property of merit, it is available for option to joint-venture partners. We facilitate the listing process for capital pool companies and initial public offerings while providing technical expertise for exploration programs. Companies interested in co-operatively exploring any of these projects please contact: Charles Downie at ccd@eagleplains.com or Mike Labach at mgl@eagleplains.com or call 1 866 Hunt Ore (486 8673).

Updated June 24, 2024