The Q Property lies south of the Cottonwood Provincial
Forest on the east bank of the Quesnel River approximately
20 kilometres southeast of Quesnel. The property consists
of 9 mineral claims with a total area of 4,057 hectares.
The earliest recorded work on the property is from 1964.
Most of the historical exploration occurred to the northeast
of the property. Previous exploration concentrated on
delineating economical epithermal gold mineralization
similar to the QR deposit, characterized by high chargeability/high
resistivity IP results. Drilling (45 holes) encountered
skarns and narrow quartz vein-hosted gold (low grade)
mineralization hosted in hornfels, basalts and felsic
dykes. A 1985 soil geochemical survey was completed on
the western portion of the property.
About 70% of the claim group is covered by glacial tills
and fluvial gravels. The easternmost portion of the property
is underlain by a northwest trending belt of volcanic
and volcanoclastics rocks of the Nicola Group. Several
small early Jurassic-aged stocks intrude the Nicola Group
rocks.
In 2007 an airborne magnetics survey was completed over
the property. Two targets (East and West) were defined,
typified by successive anomalous magnetic highs trending
northwest - southeast through the property. In 2008 IP
lines tested each of the targets defined by the airborne
magnetics. Follow-up MMI testing was completed along IP
lines in the vicinity of any anomalies.
West Target: The strongest magnetic high is situated
to the west of the property parallel to the Quesnel River.
The 2008 geophysical IP line delineating a weak to moderate
chargeability anomaly associated with lower resistivities.
MMI sampling produced a very high correlation between
gold and copper with high correlations between copper,
gold, and lead.
In 1985 a soil geochemical survey was completed with
coincident copper and gold anomalies occurring to the
northwest of the grid sloping to the river, to the southwest
of the grid along a creek channel, and weakly to the southeast
coincident with the 2007 airborne magnetics high and the
2008 IP chargeability high. This area is geologically
mapped as a granitic intrusive body.
East Target: The eastern portion of the property
has had a great deal of exploration completed in the past
with most of the activities on the adjacent ground. Exploration
concentrated on delineating economical epithermal gold
mineralization similar to the QR deposit.
Of historic significance is a weak chargeability anomaly
that appears to be untested by drilling. This historic
IP anomaly, located on the northern flank of a northwesterly
trending magnetic high, correlates with a high chargeability/resistivity
anomaly delineated by the 2008 IP survey. Coincident MMI
sampling produced a moderate copper-gold correlation.
