The Snow Property
A Technical Report on the Snow property can be found here.(PDF)here.
The Snow Property, in part, was previously held under option by Snowfield from 1997 until 2008 but was
relinquished due to a Province of British Columbia government of the day moratorium on exploration
in the area for several years followed by a further exploration permit moratorium arising from Aboriginal Land
Claim Negotiations between the Province of British Columbia and the Hawiih of the First Nations with respect to
the Clayoquot Land Use Decision Area adjacent to the area where the Snow Property is located.
These issues have since been resolved and exploration in the area resumes under the normal protocols.
Under its previous option tenure of the Snow Property, the Company expended a total of $290,334 on programs
of exploration on the Property.
The Snow property is situated between the Taylor and Kennedy rivers west of Sproat Lake on Vancouver Island,
approx. 45 kilometers west of the town of Port Alberni. The Sutton Creek logging road on the south side of the
Taylor River provides two-wheel drive access to the centre of the property.
The dominant structures of the Snow property are steeply-dipping, northwesterly-striking extensional faults.
These structures appear to have controlled the emplacement of the felsic dykes along with quartz sulphide veins
and veinlets which may be related to the felsic dykes hosted in Karmutzen volcanics. Gold mineralization within the
Snow property is associated with pyrite, galena, sphalerite and chalcopyrite in quartz or quartz-carbonated veins.
Vein textures are indicative of open space filling. A petrographic study indicated the presence of carbonate and epidote
with the quartz gangue and native gold as thread-like veinlets and inclusions in the chalcopyrite and galena.
These veins range in thickness from less than one centimeter to several tens of centimeters and usually occur as
sub-parallel sets up to several meters wide along northwesterly striking faults. At least three such vein sets are
known within the Property area.
A 1992 sampling program identified two main showings; the 'Creek Showing' and the 'Main Showing' which demonstrated
strike length of over 100 meters for the Creek Showing and 300 meters for the Main Showing mineralized zones.
Channel samples taken from the two mineralized zones provided assays ranging from 1.9 to 5.65 oz/ton
(Christopher, 1992) across 10cm widths and averages of 0.410 oz Au/ton (Kalnis, 1996) to 0.76 oz Au/ton
(Christopher, 1987) across 3 meters.
The higher grade gold values obtained from these showings provided encouragement for locating a moderate
tonnage high-grade gold deposit.
In 1987 a program comprising 247 meters of trenching and 3 diamond NQ drill holes
totaling 150 meters on the'main showing' indicated a fault controlled vein system.
The highest grade intersection was from DDH87-3 which contained 0.62 meters (59.65 - 60.27 m) grading 1.120 oz Au/ton,
2.04 oz Ag/ton, 3.6% Pb and 2.78% Zn followed by a massive quartz sulphide vein from 60.27 to 61.29 meters
grading 0.166 oz Au/ton, 5.24 oz Ag/ton, 7.58% Pb, 4.58% Zn and 1.0% Cu.
A report dated April 20th, 1990 authored by Peter A. Christopher, Ph.D, P.Eng stated:
"The Snow White property is an excellent precious and base metal prospect with further basic
exploration warranted to define additional zones."
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