Year | Company | Work Program |
1956-64 | Galaxy Minerals Ltd | - Rehabilitated the Evening Star shaft.
- Carried out underground sampling, trenching, road work, Induced polarization survey and diamond drilling (38 holes totalling 5,225 metres) at the Galaxy zone.
- Changed name to Galaxy Copper Ltd.
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1965-66 | Vanco Explorations | - Geophysical and geochemical surveys, diamond drilling on the Galaxy zone (24 holes totalling 2,418 metres).
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1968-71 | United Bata Resources Ltd./Kimberly Copper Mines Ltd. | - Rehabilitated Evening Star shaft and completed a total of 122 metres of underground drifting from the shaft at the 80 foot level.
- 16 surface diamond drill holes totalling 1,562 metres were drilled at the Galaxy zone.
- Estimated resource of approximately 3.6 million tons of proven and 1.8 million tons of indicated with an average grade of 0.58% copper.
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1971 | Nor-West Kim Resources Ltd. (formerly Kimberly Copper Mines Ltd.) | - Surveyed and mapped the underground workings on the Evening Star claim.
- Extended the northwest drift from shaft at the 80 foot level to a point 365 metres northwest; put a 30 metre ventilation raise to surface.
- Collected two bulk samples.
- Carried out 1,333 metres of surface drilling and 327 metres of underground diamond drilling on the Evening Star claim.
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1973 | Teck Corporation Ltd. | - Completed an induced polarization survey on the Makaoo property, which included the Galaxy property.
- Defined possible northwest trending chargeability anomaly east of the Galaxy zone.
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1976-77 | Canadian Superior Exploration | - Carried out geological mapping, topographic and ground magnetometer surveys.
- Drilled 8 percussion holes totalling 731 metres.
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1985-87 | Abermin Corporation | - Reported a resource of approximately 2.27 million tonnes grading 0.6% copper and 0.51 grams of gold per tonne for the Galaxy zone.
- Drilled 7 percussion drill holes totalling 367 metres, four of which were on the Galaxy property, and tested the Galaxy zone.
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1990 | Getchell Resource Corp. | - Completed percussion drilling at the Galaxy zone to verify earlier drill results and evaluate the gold potential of the zone.
- 7 holes totalling 649 metres were drilled and a historical resource of 3.2 million tonnes grading 0.65% copper and 0.34 grams of gold per tonne was estimated for the Galaxy zone.
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1995-96 | Getchell Resource Corp./Afton Mining Limited | - Under contract to Afton Mining, Teck Explorations completed delineation drilling on the Galaxy zone consisting of 33 diamond drill holes totalling 4,087 metres.
- A resource for the Galaxy zone was estimated of 1.7 million tonnes grading 0.39% copper and 0.13 grams of gold per tonne with a high-grade of 862,000 tonnes grading 0.65% copper and 0.22 grams of gold per tonne, significantly lower than earlier estimates.
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2000 | Getchell Resource Corp. | - Getchell Resource Corp. was renamed Discovery-Corp Enterprises Inc.
- No further work was carried out on the Galaxy property until 2006
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