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Previous Work
In the 1950s', previous owners undertook 2,130+ feet of underground drifting, 1,492 feet (2 holes) of diamond drilling and collared two adits at an elevation of 7,060 feet to partially explore what was then a primary target of copper and gold.
The two drill holes on the edge of the system returned 480 feet of 0.17% copper. Drill Hole #1 returned 289 feet of 0.26% copper including 115 feet of .19% copper and 0.17% molybdenite. Examination of its core indicated a zone of molybdenum bearing quartz veins from 530 to 690 feet. The two adits revealed a minimum 530-foot thick zone of structurally complex and highly altered sediments containing abundant copper oxide mineralization that decreased toward the east, where quartz veins with abundant visible molybdenum were found.
Two rounds of underground muck samplings confirmed the visible trends within the project's two adits, including 360 feet of .35% copper in Adit #1 and 520 feet of 0.45% copper in the crosscut. Four samples collected from the face of the crosscut averaged 0.34% molybdenite. A flotation test conducted on the muck samplings indicated 90.82% recovery with the concentrate assaying 0.05 ounces of gold per ton, 11.25 ounces of silver per ton and 15.5% copper. Samples were not analyzed for molybdenum.
It is the opinion of Mosquito Consolidated Gold Mines Limited that previous owners focused on the copper system and did not recognize the potential for a significantly large size combined copper-molybdenum-gold deposit.
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