Primary vs Secondary Primary deposit = original formation - original location.
Secondary deposit = relocated from the primary converted to a reconsolodated deposit.
ACE CLAIMS MAP
Hawkeye has 5,376 hectars of the original 6,940 hectars ( barker )
Claims highlighted in yellow
LINK #1
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GOOGLE MAPS - CARIBOO LAKE
Keithley Creek pinpoint
Follow Cariboo Lake ( N/NE )
First river entrance on right side going up Cariboo lake
Large Parcel - Ace #1 claims location - corner range - curvature range
Second - Ace #2 claim is across Caribll Lake - seen in first - link #1
NOTE - 8400 ( road ) can be seen traversing the circumfrence of - Ace #1 claims.
- Colleen road - i will assume branches off easterly - towards other river watershed
following the second river system facing easterly, if not... Colleen could be one of
several other logging roads that go unnamed on GOOGLE MAPS.
- When reading the Ace Tech report - keep this in mind - 8400 and mile markers
which, identify the mineral occurences.
Several hundred float boulders are visably seen on Ace #1 claims.
Either indigenous or... swept in from another location.
If from another location - if would qualify as a secondary depoist.
Many current mineral deposits are - secondary formations.
The question becomes, is it economical ?
Float boulders - some revealed high - gold grams -
While, the soils were tested only - 1/3 meter belowgrade.
Not exactly a good soil test -
I would qualify this no more than a - vegatation top soil test.
If the gold was swept in from elesewhere, and eons of time passes,
chances are the gold below the topsoils from vegation would hinder and
disallow the gold pathfinders to reach the surface.
Gold values would be sealed in time - well below the vegation strata.
Soil strata is said to be upto 12m thick in some areas.
Waht should that tell a geologist ?
Should they be checking soil strata which has shallow depths ?
Where watersheds may have swept the secondary soils and minerals away ?
Or... check the deeper soil strata whereas the soils from elsewhere accumilated ?
Boulders - accumilated.
Soils - accumilated.
= Could be a good place to find a secondary deposit - right ?
Rgardless what another - cosmo - thinks...
Float boulders are an excellent sign of - something of a gold occurence is going on -
several hundred boulders above surface begs one to know how many
more lie belwo the surface - unseen by overburden ?
What should Hawkeye do ?
Yup... test the soils at depth, even the deeper soils at 12m.
If boulders have great gold grams, then one must ask, could the soil granuals
have the same gold grams - both contributiing to a potential secondary depoist.
That's how i would tackle the Ace claims - in a placer manner.
While separating the homogenous host rock as a separate geology
and potnetially - separate primary depoist.
Ace Tech Report - Referecne
https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/47748664/technical-report-on-the-ace-property-barker-minerals-ltd
Testing the soils at deeper depths ( 3- 12m ) would provide the answers needed
to know If the Ace #1 claim has a sdecondary depoist.
If one refers to the Google link Terrain mode map link above,
It's not hard ot imagine a - masisve - amount of rock and tills and soils parked itself
along side the range of Ace #1 claims.
One can see mass erosion all aloong the Cariboo river system...
Question becomes... how much of this erosion parked itself on Ace #1 ?
This at depth terst should have been performed years ago.
And... all along the Hawkeye CARIBOO CLAIMS that arte contigous to ACE.
Cheers....
Simple small backhoe....
With portable sluice washplant would provide the answers needed.
Inexpensive method - but would deliver the results needed to know with ceertainty. .
Would the exploration ACT permit this sort of exploring ?
They allow, channel cuts, and bulk sampling right ?