Carp Location
Looking southwest from silver anomaly
Carp access road 2022
2022 lodgepole pine needle sample
2022 copper values
Carp Lithium (Copper)
Project
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Executive Summary
The Carp Property is located within the Nechako Plateau physiographic region of the Interior Plateau approximately 50 kilometres northwest of the district municipality of Fort St James, BC. Local First Nations include the Lheidli T'enneh Nation and the Nak'azdli Band (this list is preliminary based on current government information and is not conclusive). The Property is comprised of one mineral tenure, 100% owned by Diana Benz, and totals approximately 280.68 hectares of land within the 093J/12 NTS map sheet.
The mineral tenure is within an area of gentle relief east of Gates Lake and the Muskeg River. This region experiences typical central British Columbia weather with cold, snowy winters and cool to warm summers. Mineral exploration may be conducted on a year-round basis, although at higher elevations, the season may be dependent on the snowpack levels and/or stability.
Historical work within the current Carp Property area includes regional airborne magnetic and electromagnetic geophysical surveys, regional mapping and a local Spatiotemporal Geochemical Hydrocarbon (SGH) survey. In general, the project area sits on a large regional magnetic high with high contrast magnetic contours trending in a northeast-southwest direction. The electromagnetic survey revealed a large VTEM (conductive) anomaly underlying the Carp Project while a local VTEM low is in the southeast. In 2016, a local SGH was conducted on the Dark Horse Property to search for a porphyry deposit similar to Mount Milligan. Fifteen (15) high Redox-Sulfide, Copper, and Gold Ratings were noted in the area with the Redox-Sulfide Rating anomaly number 14 located on the current Carp Property.
The Carp Property is located within the Omineca Belt, a Jurassic through Cretaceous volcanic arc terrane situated between the Foreland Belt to the east and the Intermontane Belt to the west. It formed as a chain of volcanic islands that collided with the western edge of North America during terrane accretion events in the Jurassic. This collision caused widespread metamorphism, plutonism, crustal thickening, and uplift, exposing the metamorphic core of the Omineca Belt today in ranges like the Columbia, Cassiar, Monashee, Purcell, and Selkirk Mountains. The Cassiar Terrane is home to Volcanic Massive Sulfide and Sedimentary Exhalative deposits including Coeur Mining's Silvertip Project with a 2023 Measured and Indicated Resource of 57,700,000 oz of silver, 1,500,000,000 lbs of zinc, and 768,700,000 lbs of lead.
The main lithological unit recognized within the Project area is the Upper Cretaceous to Eocene Wolverine Metamorphic Complex described as muscovite and biotite schist, paragneiss; minor quartzite and marble as well as undifferentiated granitic pegmatite, granodiorite and rhyolite, amphibolite, calcsilicate and marble.
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The geological setting, along with biogeochemical mineralization and alteration within the Project area, may be consistent with a residual melt pegmatite Lithium-Caesium-Tantalum Pegmatite Deposit, although more information is required before determining the deposit model. The geological setting consists of pegmatite rocks located between two regionally mapped faults and a possible small porphyry-type igneous body to the south. The Carp Project is located on a localized silt sample copper high within notable gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, cobalt and lithium anomalies found in biogeochemical samples as well as a SGH Redox-Sulfide Zone anomaly.
The 2022 program consisted of lineament mapping, as well as a field program to groundtruth regional silt samples, and the historical SGH survey, as well as a test on the feasibility of a soil sampling grid, and to collect biogeochemical samples. Samples were collected within predefined areas derived from lineament mapping along accessible resource roads and were based on the previous SGH survey. A biogeochemical sampling of lodgepole pine tree needles revealed and confirmed areas anomalous for gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, cobalt, and lithium.
Carp Property Location
Location & Access
The Carp Property is located within the Cariboo Mining Division of east-central British Columbia (BC) approximately 50 kilometres northwest of the district municipality of Fort St James, 82 kilometres southeast of the district municipality of Mackenzie, 100 kilometres north by northwest of the city of Prince George, and 600 km north of Vancouver. Local First Nation traditional territories include the Lheidli T'enneh Nation and the Nak'azdli Band (the list is preliminary based on current government information and is not conclusive).
Nearby infrastructure includes a major BC Hydro power line that runs along Highway 97 (Hart Highway) from Mackenzie to Prince George approximately 50 kilometres east of the Property with the BC Hydro Kennedy Substation located south of Mackenzie. Railway lines are located approximately 20 kilometres south with access between Prince George and Fort St James. The Kitimat Deep Water Port Railway Connection is located 340 km west and the Prince Rupert Deep Water Port Railway Connection is 440 km west.
The Carp Property is accessible via resource roads from the unincorporated settlement of Bear Lake. Directions to the Property are as follows: from Prince George, head north approximately 75 km along Highway 97 to Bear Lake. Turn left onto the Davie Muskeg Forest Service Road. At approximately 67.5 kilometres (277 km marker) is a turn-off to the left onto the 8600 Road accessing the Gates Lake Recreation Site. The 8600 Road extends past the Gates Lake Recreation Site to provide access to the centre of the Property.
Carp Mineral Tenure
Carp First Vertical Derivative Magnetic Survey
Carp Bedrock-Levelled Copper Anomaly
Carp Soil Gas Hydrocarbon (SGH) Redox Anomaly (dotted line, oval shape)
Carp Soil Gas Hydrocarbon (SGH) Copper Factor
Property Status & History
The Carp Property is comprised of one mineral tenure covering approximately 281 hectares of land within the 093J/12 NTS map sheet. The Property is located between WGS84 latitudes 54.662° and 54.637° North and longitudes 123.576° and 123.538° West. The centre of the claim block is located at 54.651° North and -123.551° West.
All of the tenures are 100%-owned. The tenure good-to-dates are July 19, 2026.
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This region continues to rely on active logging and has a long history of mineral exploration. The Carp Project area was logged, and re-planted, within the past 10 years.
One open pit, copper-gold mine is located approximately 60 north of the Carp Project. This porphyry mine is called Mount Milligan and is currently owned by Thompson Creek Metals Company Inc., an indirect subsidiary of Centerra Gold Inc. Commercial production at Mount Milligan was achieved in 2014 with 736,000,000 pounds of copper in proven and probable reserves as well as 1,838,000,000 ounces of gold in proven and probable reserves (Fitzgerald et al., 2020).
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The Carp Project lies within the underexplored Cassiar Terrane of central British Columbia, which is part of Geoscience BC’s QUEST (2007-2010) project area and their more recent Central Interior Copper-Gold Research: Surficial Exploration Project (2018-2022). A reconnaissance project, which followed up on magnetic anomalies with selective biogeochemical sampling, was conducted by Placer Dome Inc in 1991 over a large area including the current Carp claims (Goodall and Fox, 1992). The Carp claim is part of a large regional magnetic high with high contrast magnetic contours trending in a northeast-southwest direction. They targeted magnetic contours greater than 4500 gamma and one target was chosen along the southeastern border of the current Carp Claim.
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In 2007 and 2008, Geoscience BC compiled publicly available topographic, geological, geophysical, geochemical and mineral occurrence data over a 150,000 square kilometre area that included the current Carp claim. An airborne gravity and electromagnetic data survey was flown and 2,100 new lake and stream sediment samples as well as 5,000 older stream sediment sample pulps were re-assayed. Barnett & Williams processed the geochemical data to show element values levelled to inferred bedrock. A large copper anomaly occurs within the current Carp claim.
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In 2015, personnel from KGHMI and Rio Minerals travelled to the Dark Horse Property to collect 1,976 Spatiotemporal Geochemical Hydrocarbon (SGH) samples, at 1,815 sample sites including 161 field duplicates. The samples were primarily collected along resource roads. A Mount Milligan style porphyry was the SGH Pathfinder Class template used for interpreting the results. The results are given a subjective rating, from 0 to 6, relative to the similarities of other SGH signatures from previous research and case studies over known ore bodies. Typically, no other geochemical, geophysical or geological information is given to the lab to assist with the ratings.
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The SGH survey on the Dark Horse Property was interpreted based on a Copper-Gold Porphyry target as described in the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Open-File Report 2008-1321 Preliminary Model of Porphyry Copper Deposits (McKinley, 2016). A total of five SGH Pathfinder classes were used: Redox, Sulfide, Copper, Gold, and Platinum.
The Redox Pathfinder Class is based on known SGH conditions associated with the deep chlorite-quartz-magnetite-K-feldspar alteration zone of an idealized porphyry copper deposit. The size of the Redox Class anomalies is thought to be relative to the depth of the potential ore body rather than the amount of mineralization. The shape of the Redox Class anomaly is also thought to be related to depth with symmetrical SGH anomalies depicting centrally-located mineralization directly related to an intrusive source and less symmetrical anomalies associated with porphyry-style mineral fluid precipitation.
The Sulfide Class was used to locate the central low total sulfide zone whereas the Copper Class was used to locate potential ore zones. The Gold Class was used for identifying potential porphyry centres and/or flanks and the Platinum Class indicated lineaments with the potential for narrow or vein-like structures.
Overall ratings for the Dark Horse Project included 5.0 out of 6.0 for Apical SGH Anomalies of Possible Copper Zones, a “REDOX” rating of 5.0 out of 6.0, and Apical SGH Anomalies within Redox Zones indicating possible centres of porphyry style deposits with a “SULFIDE” signature rating of 4.0 out of 6.0. A total of 15 Redox-Sulfide Zones were identified with one zone, labelled 14, located within the current Carp claim.
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Geology
The Carp Property lies within the Cassiar Terrane of the Omineca Tectonic Belt of British Columbia. The Omineca Belt is a highly metamorphosed, pericratonic (near craton) belt composed of terranes and fragments of ancestral North America, and is comprised of the Slide Mountain, Yukon-Tanana, and the Cassiar Terranes.
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The Cassiar Terrane is described as a sliver of the North American continental margin that has been displaced northward along the dextral Tintina Fault (Nelson and Bradford, 1993). The majority of publications are focussed on the most northern portion of the Cassiar Terrane as it extends from the Cassiar Goldfields and following into the Tintina Gold Fields of the Yukon. Due to thick drifts of sediments and landforms created during the Fraser Glaciation, very little geological work has been conducted for central BC region of the Cassiar Terrane where the southern-most extent of the Tintina-Northern Rocky Mountain Trench Fault meets the McLeod Lake Fault.
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The stratigraphy of the Carp area (NTS 093J/12) is currently unknown. Regional geological mapping shows that the Carp Project area is underlain by Upper Cretaceous to Eocene Wolverine Metamorphic Complex. This paragneiss metamorphic rock consists of muscovite and biotite schist, paragneiss; minor quartzite and marble as well as undifferentiated granitic pegmatite, granodiorite and rhyolite, amphibolite, calcsilicate and marble. The ages are based on the metamorphic rocks with a proposed protolith related to the Windermere Group: an Ordovician to a Silurian collection of conglomerates, dolomite and quartzite (after Cui, et al., 2017).
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Results
The Carp Project is located in a cluster of stream sediment samples that returned among the highest copper values in the region and in the top class of normalized copper values. The geochemical copper anomalies are supported by:
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a 4500+ gamma magnetic anomaly in the south, bounded by regional faults,
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a large (4 by 5 km) copper-levelled to bedrock stream sediment anomaly,
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a transition zone of a conductive anomaly (high to the west and circular low to the east),
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a moderate gravity anomaly,
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and an interpreted SGH (Spatiotemporal Geochemical Hydrocarbon) no sulfur REDOX class zone indicating centrally-located mineralization directly related to an intrusive source where size is related to depth rather than the amount of mineralization.
Reconnaissance work in 2022 confirmed the copper and gold findings from previous SGH and stream sediment surveys, and revealed anomalies for silver, lead, zinc, cobalt and lithium. High contrast geochemical zones were also uncovered for arsenic, bismuth, caesium, iron, antimony, selenium, thorium, titanium, vanadium, and the rare earth elements.
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