Allies Property

Allies Gold Copper Project

Summary:

 The Allies Property consists of ten contiguous claims comprising 1,039.96 ha.

Location:

 The Allies Property is 26 kilometers northwest of Kamloops city center, near Cannell Creek at the southern tip of the Tranquille Plateau. Accessible via a major logging road that extends northwest through the property, it can be reached from North Kamloops by traveling on 8th Avenue, which turns into a gravel road in the Batchelor Hills, serving as the main route for the logging trucks. The route passes Lac du Bois, McQueen Lake, and Pass Lake. The main road is suitable for two-wheel drive vehicles, but certain areas of the property require four-wheel drive due to the older logging and mining roads.

Regional Geology:

The Allies area features the Nicola Group, Upper Triassic rocks comprising sedimentary and volcanic materials from a subaqueous island arc. It's segmented into three blocks by two northtrending faults, with Cherry Creek and Guichon Creek marking their boundaries. The Nicola Group consists of four lithologic assemblages, including a western volcanic belt of felsic, intermediate, and mafic volcanics, a central volcanic belt with subaqueous and subaerial basalt and andesite, an eastern volcanic belt of intermediate and mafic volcanic rocks, and an eastern sedimentary assemblage of greywackes and limestones. Late Triassic and Early Jurassic alkalic intrusions, including the Iron Mask batholith, intersect these formations. The batholith, comprising various rock types like gabbro and syenite, is associated with copper mineralization. Eocene arc volcanics and Miocene-Pliocene basalts form the youngest layers, overlaying the Nicola and Iron Mask rocks. The Allies area itself is a mix of picrite, Nicola greenstones, and porphyritic dykes, with geological features including felsic ash tuff and volcanic greywacke, as well as Miocene basalts covering older formations.

Mineralization:

At the Dodd’s showing feldspar porphyry dikes with quartz-carbonate stringers hosting disseminated pyrite with chalcopyrite and galena are associated with a west-striking and south- dipping shear zone. In 1976, select grab samples taken from trench cuts assayed up to 0.68 per cent copper, 0.13 per cent lead, 1.9 grams per tonne gold and 19.8 grams per tonne silver.

At the Allies Southwest showing a chloritized and oxidized shear zone in greenstone and quartz feldspar porphyry dikes hosting quartz-carbonate veins with pyrite, malachite and chalcopyrite is exposed above the ‘Southwest’ adit.

At the Allies Prospect large float boulders, up to 3 by 2 by 1 metre in size, of feldspar porphyry dikes carrying small quartz veins and stringers mineralized with pyrite, chalcopyrite, bornite, galena and occasional free gold have been identified. At the Allies Prospect samples of quartz stringers are reported to have assayed up to 45.2 grams/tonne gold over 20 centimeters. In 1973, grab samples from the main workings are reported to have yielded up to 1.30 per cent copper, 50.9 grams per tonne silver and 7.2 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 4546).

MINFILES:

Allies (092INE044) | Allies Southwest (092INE192) | Dodd's (092INE194)

History:

During the early 1900’s Prospectors looking for the source of the placer gold found in the Tranquille River discovered large (2-meter square) blocks of silicified feldspar porphyry carrying sulphides that assayed up to 1.42 ounces gold per ton in one of its tributaries, Cannell Creek. This discovery became known as the “Allies Prospect”.

In the 1930’s at least three shafts and five adits were dug. It sat dormant until the late 1960s. During the 1970s VLF electromagnetic and geochemical sampling surveys were conducted and three diamond drill holes were done. In the 1980s the property was optioned and sampling surveys, trenching, and drilling were conducted. In the 2000s Prospecting, IP surveys, and some drilling was conducted. In 2019 four lines of magnetic and VLF-EM surveying were done in the southeast area of the property.

Potential:

The Allies property shows promising signs of hosting alkalic porphyry copper-gold deposits as well as mesothermal gold mineralization. Evidence includes the underlying extension of the Iron Mask batholith, a formation known to harbor similar deposits, and the presence of mineralization patterns such as stockworks and veinlets of pyrite, chalcopyrite, and magnetite. This is further supported by the proximity to the Afton deposit, which shares similar characteristics. Geochemical analyses reveal elevated levels of gold, silver, and copper, aligning with the typical profile of alkalic porphyry systems.

Property Available for Option