Sure Thing

The Sure Thing property occupies 3,606 hectares in an underexplored region. The property lies along the Yukon border and hosts potential for porphyry deposits, greisen mineralization, and is along critical Reduced Intrusion Related Gold System (RIRGS) structures of the Tintina Gold Belt of Alaska and Yukon. 

The property is underlain by a highly altered and fractured granodiorite, with mineralization occurring as fracture fill + veinlets of chalcopyrite, wolframite, molybdenite, sphalerite, and galena. Chip and grab samples from the property returned values up to 2.72 gpt Au, 35.8 gpt Ag, 0.14% Cu, 0.88% Pb, and 0.86% Mo.

• Strong assays of Au-Ag-Cu-Bi-W strong associations with Au-Bi-W

• Ag-Pb-Zn-Sn aureole found within vertical faults

• Fracture ± vein ± fault-controlled mineralization of chalcopyrite, wolframite, molybdenite, fluorite, galena, and sphalerite

• Generative quartz textures of white quartz - smoky quartz - dark chalcedonic quartz and banded veins 

• Hosted by weakly to strongly altered hornblende - biotite granodiorite unit in largely unexplored region

• Highly leached surface area creating large gossan anomaly, encouraging for drilling at depth

• Signs of prospective reduced ilmenite-series granitoid  

• Aplite and pegmatite dikes and veins indicate complex magmatic and cooling cycles 

• Fe-Ox, clay, sericite, epidote, and silicic alteration recognized within the Sure Thing property

• On trend with Denali and Tintina faults bounding the 220 million Oz Au producing Tintina Gold Belt region, prospective for Reduced Intrusion Related Gold deposits

• Disseminated pyrite occurs throughout the intrusive body indicating a large hydrothermal footprint 

The Sure Thing property is located 40 km northwest of the Klondike Highway, the property connects Canada to Skagway Port, approximately 90 km southwest of Whitehorse, Yukon, and 80 km north of Haines, Alaska. The nearest infrastructure is the Mt. Skookum mine access road 23 km to the Northeast, this gravel road intersects the Klondike Highway 31 km North of Carcross. The north boundary of the property lies along the Yukon-B.C. border near the path of the historic Gold Rush trail. 

The area saw limited exploration in the 1960s and 70s, projects were focused on molybdenite bearing systems. The region presents a new region for discovery and has yet to be visited in earnest by contemporary efforts. More recently, the Regional Geochemical Survey silt samples taken in the area highlight anomalous values of rare elements. 

The underlying geology of the Sure Thing property itself is mapped as a Paleogene granite-granodiorite. The age is coeval with the Sloko Group Volcanics and related mineralization at Mt. Skukum mine.  Exact dating for the intrusive bodies in the area is uncertain, this region has yet to see detailed mapping efforts. 

The major tectonic-related Denali Fault lay 70 km to the west of the property, en-echelon structures related to the strike-slip fault were crucial in the emplacement of magmatic suites capable of bearing RIRGS deposits. As previously mentioned, this fault defines the southern boundary of the Tintina gold belt. 

Deposits such as Fort Knox mine, Fairbanks district, Alaska and the Dublin Gulch mine, Yukon, Canada are examples of intrusion hosted disseminated gold of RIRGS style. In these deposits mineralization is of Au-Bi-W hosted with small 1-6 cm sheeted quartz veins found near intrusive carapace. 

The causative intrusions for both Mo porphyry and RIRGs are related to small >1km sized intrusive plugs. Matter from overlying country rock can be amalgamated into the melt and influence a melts composition and oxidation. This can significantly increase the metallogenic potential held by an intruding system.  

The region around the Sure Thing property comprises Cretaceous - Tertiary intrusive suites of the Coast Plutonic Complex. In some areas metamorphosed roof pendant structures of the Yukon-Tanana Terrane overlay. Regional Geochemical Survey (RGS) sampling in the region highlights highly anomalous fluoride values. 

Recent and historical Eocene dates attributed to mineralization within the Golden Triangle and recent success associated with RIRGS in the Tombstone Range Yukon are changing perceptions on Eocene rock potential for deposits.  

Batholith hosted porphyry deposits throughout BC have proven the size and grade that these deposit styles can possess. Highland Valley Copper project showing a Cu-Mo porphyry is hosted within the granodiorite. The mine saw 2024 production reach 119,000 tonnes of Cu and 3.4 million pounds Mo, with an extended mine life to 2041. 

Further, Mo-porphyry deposits within the Heyu batholith, Henan province, China show episodic mineralization phases. An initial K-feldspar-Mo to a final phase of quartz-calcite-fluorite assemblage signifies the magma was reducing, creating a setting for RIRGs to occur. 

In 2024, the B-All Syndicate spent five days on-site with a team of geologists, collecting 75 samples across the project, including outcrop, talus fines, and silt samples. Three new highly prolific zones were identified on the property based on high-grade samples, alteration mapping, and structural mapping focused on delineating drill targets. Three primary zones of interest have been identified within the property, each based on mineralization, alteration and defining structures. 

The Bulls Eye zone covers an area of ~1.3 km by 1 km and remains open. It is delineated based on the presence of NW trending zone of strong quartz sericite alteration. Sampling of outcrops in the Bulls-Eye Zone identified gold-bearing mineralization is associated with a high density of mineralized NW trending fractures and quartz veinlets containing up to 7 % molybdenite mineralization with wolframite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, and fluorite. Sample assays revealed Au-W-Bi affinities. Vertical NW trending faults also host dark chalcedonic veinlets with disseminated galena and sphalerite mineralization. This style is thought to represent a Pb-Zn±Ag aureole around a Mo core. 

Sample D750079 - Quartz veinlets hosted within a fractured granodiorite containing disseminated chalcopyrite and molybdenite along the vein margins that assayed 2.72 g/t Au and 2.75 g/t Ag, 320 ppm W and 1505 ppm Bi. 

Sample D750249 - Granodiorite with fracture hosted quartz-stockwork containing minor chalcopyrite that assayed 34 gpt Ag, 964 ppm Cu, 851 ppm As.

Sample D750257 - Quartz-stockwork that assayed 37.2 gpt Ag, and 0.02 % Cu.

The Rocket zone consists of an area 1.3 km by 1 km and is located North of Bulls-Eye Trend. This is a zone of structural complexities with pervasive quartz-sericite-pyrite, the surficial expression of which is highly gossanous. Mineralization at the Rocket Zone also displays fracture and vein-controlled mineralization with increased vein density containing sulphides such as pyrite, molybdenite and arsenopyrite. Structurally hosted quartz veining containing semi massive pyrite +/- arsenopyrite occurs within the NE trending large structures in the Rocket area.

Sample D750167 - Oxidized granodiorite containing multiple quartz veinlets with 5-8% Molybdenite mineralization with lesser molybdenite on the fracture surfaces that assayed 0.24 g/t Au and 0.86% Mo.

Sample D750237 - Vuggy quartz vein with black sooty sulphides along the vein margin hosted within a highly oxidized granodiorite in a structural complex area that assayed 14.85 g/t Ag.

Deep Pockets is a 1.5 km by 500 m area of highly oxidized granodiorite consisting of steep sided gullies. A historic silt sample assayed 32 ppb Au in one of the main creeks draining Deep Pockets. The zone is characterized by an increase in wider polymetallic quartz veining indicative of distal porphyry style mineralization. Mineralized quartz veins up to 40 cm wide contain 7-10 % sulphides including pyrite, pyrrhotite and molybdenite occurring throughout the granodiorite within fractures and veinlets.

Sample D750306 - Highly oxidized granodiorite in a steep-sided gully, containing small quartz veinlets with 1 % chalcopyrite and molybdenite that assayed 35.8 g/t Ag, 0.14% Cu, 0.88% Zn, 0.16 % Mo, 180 g/t W.

Sample D75352 - Highly oxidized granite containing quartz veinlets with coarse grained molybdenite that assayed 21 g/t Ag, 0.18% Mo.

Mineral potential is significant on the Surething property Future exploration efforts will be directed towards 

• Conducting a through contour based talus-fine program. This will be critical in locating new zones that are hidden underneath overburden, and  evolving the understanding of the properties of metallogeny and spatial distribution. 

• Further prospecting and mapping should focus upon the orientation of fractures and veins to vector will be employed to vector in on potential porphyry signatures. 

• Follow up 2024 sampling, with an effort for channel and chip samples to gauge geochemical results over larger intervals.

• The application of an Induced Polarization Survey would aid in connecting target strike length and identify future drill targets.