Regional Analogues
Listed below are mines, mineral deposits and advanced prospects in the Heath-Falcon property region.
The Heath Falcon property outline and the location of the named potential analogue is shown in red on each map below. Clicking on a map will lead to more information about the potential analogue shown on it.
Kwanika Porphyry Cu/Au deposit
Approximately 30km north o Heath-falcon Kwanika hosts two bulk tonnage calc-alkaline porphyry deposits, the primary Central Zone Cu-Au porphyry, and secondary South Zone Cu-Au-Mo porphyry deposit. The Central Zone was discovered by Serengeti Resources in 2006 and features both a near surface open-pit resource, and a higher-grade underground resource that has the potential for a block cave mining.
Mt Milligan Porphyry Copper/Gold Mine
Mount Milligan is located approximately 70 kilometres west of Heath-Falcon. Mount Milligan is a conventional truck-shovel open-pit copper and gold mine and concentrator with a 60,000 tpd capacity copper flotation processing plant.
Chuchi Prospect
The Chuchi Lake Project hosts the Chuchi alkalic porphyry Cu-Au system, a developed mineral prospect located approximately 30km east of Heath-Falcon. The porphyry system lies on the south-eastern margin of the Hogem intrusive suite, one of the largest Mesozoic intrusive complexes associated with porphyry mineralization in the Quesnel terrane. Heath-Falcon lies on the south-west margin of the same batholith. Chuchi is currently being actively explored by Pacific Ridge Exploration Limited. (Note: Padific Ridge is also actively exploring their "Redton" property which which lies only three kilometers to the east of the Kwanika deposits. Redton Resources holds a royalty over Pacific Ridge's "Redton" property.
Lorraine Porphyry Cu/Au Deposit
Approximately 70km north of Heath-Falcon, the Lorraine deposit is a high-grade alkalic porphyry mineralized system with an historic non NI 43-101 compliant resource and a 2022 43-101 Technical Report.
Endako Molybdenum Mine
The Endako Mo mine lies approximately 200km southwest of Heath-Falcon. The Endako batholith is a composite batholith that consists of early foliated hornblende ± biotite diorites, intermediate-age unfoliated hornblende ± biotite diorites, and late granodiorites to monzogranites. These latter plutons host the Endako molybdenite deposit, a major porphyry deposit. Extensive K-Ar dating on the batholith has given relatively reproducible ages centered on 140 Ma, indicating a short life span for magmatic activity. (From: Villeneuve, Mike, et al. "The Endako batholith: Episodic plutonism culminating in formation of the Endako porphyry molybdenite deposit, north-central British Columbia." Economic Geology 96.1 (2001): 171-196.)
New Afton Porphyry Cu/Au Mine
The red outline of the block cave shown above (ie: the current outline of economic ore) has been superimposed on a number of Redton's Heath Merge exploration maps on this website to illustrate the scale of an economic orebody in regard to the current state of exploration information around Redton's Heath Merge prospect.
The New Afton Mine is located in the Quesnel terrane approximately 10 km west of Kamloops and is operated by New Gold Inc.
It is a Cu-Au alkalic porphyry deposit which is tabular, sub-vertical, southwest-plunging, and measures approximately 100 m thick by 1.5 km long by 1.5 km down plunge, remaining open at depth.
The above illustration is reproduced from Lipske, J. L., et al. "Geology and mineralization of the New Afton Cu-Au alkalic porphyry deposit, Kamloops, British Columbia." Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum Special Volume 57 (2020).