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Sands of Time, YT
Highlights
- 57 km2 property located adjacent to Western Copper and Gold’s Casino Project, where Rio Tinto and Mitsubishi Materials are strategic investors
- Hosts 2 large, underexplored molybdenum±copper soil anomalies similar in size to the Casino Deposit
- High abundance of gold grains and Casino Suite aged zircons identified in stream sediments
Sands of Time Gelology & Mineralization
The 57 km2 Sands of Time Property is located immediately adjacent to Western Copper and Gold’s Casino Project. The Property hosts 2 large molybdenum ± copper soil geochemical anomalies similar in size to the Casino Deposit. The property is in unglaciated terrain and a copper-depleted leached cap is expected in this environment, similar to the Casino deposit. Molybdenum is relatively immobile compared to copper under these weathering conditions and can be used as a vector towards blind porphyry molybdenum ± copper-gold mineralization.
The Amoco showing, located on the western side of the SOT claims, has a 1,100 x 600 m copper-molybdenum soil anomaly (Figure 2). Four shallow diamond drill holes located just outside of the soil anomaly were drilled by Amoco Canada Petroleum Company in 1976. The holes were anomalous for copper and molybdenum, with up to 0.02% copper and 50 ppm molybdenum over 154 m and were not assayed for gold. The northeast corner of the SOT claims has a large 5,000 x 1,500 m molybdenum±copper soil anomaly that has not been drilled (Figure 2). The target is located within a moderate to strong 4 x 4 km magnetic high and coincident with two roughly 1,000 x 1,000 m potassium highs identified by a 2012 airborne radiometrics survey.
Casino Suite aged zircons were identified in stream sediments draining the Property, suggesting there is an unmapped intrusion of similar age to the Casino Deposit present on the property. In addition, a high abundance of gold grains were also encountered in stream sediments in similar abundance to the drainage below the Casino Deposit, suggesting a bedrock gold source is present on the Property.
The Property is underlain by Devonian to Permian metamorphic rocks of the Yukon Tanana terrane, which are intruded by Cretaceous to Palaeogene intrusive and volcanic rocks. The Property is dominantly underlain by the mid-Cretaceous Dawson Range batholith.
SANDS OF TIME maps & Figures
