The Blueberry Zone is located just 2 km northeast of the 100% owned, past-producing Scottie Gold Mine located in British Columbia, Canada’s Golden Triangle region. The Blueberry Zone is located on the Granduc Road, 20 km north of the Ascot Resources’ Premier Mill, which has recently completed financing for reactivation (Dec 10, 2020). Historic trenching and channel sampling of the Blueberry Vein include results of 103.94 g/t gold over 1.43 m, and 203.75 g/t gold over 1.90 m. Despite high-grade surficial samples and easy road access, the Blueberry Vein had only limited reported drilling until acquisition of the claims by Scottie Resources in December, 2018.
The target was significantly advanced during Scottie’s 2019 drill program when an interval grading 7.44 g/t gold over 34.78 m was intersected in a new splay zone off of the main Blueberry Vein. The drill results received in 2020, coupled with surficial mapping and sampling suggest that this splay is in fact a major N-S mineralizing structure, of which the Blueberry Vein was only a secondary structure. This near surface zone is much wider than pursued in previous exploration models and establishing the orientation and continuity of it was a priority during the 2020 drill program. A total 1,609 metres in 11 holes were drilled into the Blueberry Zone during 2020.
In 2021, the company developed a new geological model for the Blueberry Contact Zone as a property scale structural feature. Fieldwork and drilling has delineated the architecture of the system, which links several widely spaced high-quality targets along a common structure, and ultimately generates clear new targets along the projected extension. With successful intercepts from 2020, drilling ramped up in 2021 with a total of 5,109 metres in 42 holes. This program successfully extended the strike length of the mineralized N-S structure to over 720 metres, which remains open in all directions. In additional, numerous significant high-grade gold discoveries were made, including 34.6 g/t gold over 11.86 m (March 8, 2022), and 15.3 g/t gold over 13.49 m (February 8, 2022).
During the 2023 exploration season, a total of 15590.5 m comprising 61 holes were drilled to test the Blueberry Contact Zone and associated Road, Blueberry, Fifi, Lemoffee, Gully, and E (Serac Vein) Zones. Drilling at the Blueberry Contact Zone continued to intersect broad zones of gold mineralization along the north-south andesite-siltstone contact and northwest dipping sulphide-rich cross-structures. Drilling in 2023 extended Au-bearing mineralization to a depth of approximately 535 m. Mineralization in the Blueberry Contact Zone is interpreted to be characterized by north-plunging ore shoots that seem to be defined by the intersection lineation of north-west dipping sulphide-carbonate-quartz veins and the sub-vertical, north-south striking andesite-siltstone contact. This intersecting structure enhanced the targeting of the Road, Blueberry, Fifi, and Lemoffee, Gully, and E Zones. Infill drilling was conducted between ore shoots and results suggest that mineralization is present between the previously defined shoots.
Table 1: Select Drill Intercepts from 2019-2023. *True thicknesses of mineralized intercepts are undetermined
Figure 1: Overview plan view map of the Blueberry Zone, With 2019’s significant intercept.
Figure 2: Overview plan view map of the Blueberry Zone, highlighting the projection of the inferred N-S mineralizing trend and drill intercepts from 2020.
Figure 3: Overview plan view map of the Blueberry Zone, highlighting the projection of the inferred N-S mineralizing trend and drill intercepts from 2021.
Figure 4: Overview plan view map of the Blueberry Zone, highlighting the projection of the inferred N-S mineralizing trend and drill intercepts from 2022.
Figure 5: Long section view of the Blueberry Contact Zone ( Viewing angle East 90 degrees) with notable intercepts from 2019-2023.