Todd Creek

ArcWest’s 100% owned, 32,000 ha Todd Creek project is situated in BC’s renowned Golden Triangle and adjoins Pretium’s Brucejack mine property; in March of 2022 Newcrest Mining completed the acquisition of Pretium in a transaction valued at CAD $3.5 billion.  Todd Creek is 45 km southeast of the giant KSM-Iron Cap porphyry Cu-Au deposits, owned by Seabridge Gold Inc. 

The west side of the Todd Creek valley is host to a 12 km long, highly gossanous corridor which contains abundant and widespread Cu-Au occurrences hosted by variably altered volcanic rocks, porphyritic intrusive rocks of KSM-Iron Cap age and associated breccia.  This very large target area is prospective for multiple porphyry Cu-Au centres and remains largely unexplored.  Historical shallow inclined drill holes collared at the north end of the corridor intercepted previously unrecognized porphyry Cu-Au style veining. Low elevations on the west side of Todd Creek valley host multiple Cu-Au bearing jasperoidal silica-hematite enriched epithermal-like systems (South and Fall Creek zones) that warrant additional exploration. Similar jasperoidal silica and hematite enriched systems are associated with gold bearing quartz-chalcopyrite veins and breccias at Sandstorm Gold Royalties’ Hod Maden project and K92 Mining’s Kora North project. Historical exploration of South and Fall Creek include grab samples with assays up to 37.7 g/t Au and 5.3% Cu (Fall Creek) and drill holes returning assays up to 3.47 g/t Au and 0.73% Cu over 31.85 m (NTC88-022, Fall Creek zone) and 3.61 g/t Au and 0.27% Cu over 29.75m (NTC88-019, South zone). The east side of Todd Creek valley contains a large area of outcropping polymetallic massive sulfide occurrences discovered in 2008 that is prospective for volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) mineralization; only one shallow inclined drill hole has tested this prospective area to date.  The drill hole intercepted massive honey sphalerite-chalcopyrite clast-bearing volcaniclastic rocks at shallow depths, suggesting proximity to VMS mineralization.