Cook Project

The 2741ha Cook Property is a structurally-hosted gold project located in north-central Saskatchewan, 39km NNW of Missinipe.  The main occurrence is a series of NE trending quartz veins that contain visible gold. The claims have not been drill tested or explored using modern techniques.

The claims were acquired in 2023 with no underlying royalties or encumbrances and are accessible by fixed wing aircraft from La Ronge or the village of Missinipe.

Project Highlights

• Excellent geology favourable for gold deposits
• Significantly underexplored with encouraging early results
• Mineralization open in both directions along strike and to depth
• Bonanza-grade gold occurrences within the property boundaries
• Strongly anomalous under-evaluated gold geochemical anomalies
   

Geology
 

The property is underlain by the Hepburn Lake intrusion located within the NE trending volcanic-sedimentary-plutonic La Ronge Domain located along the western flank of the Proterozoic Trans-Hudson orogenic belt in Saskatchewan. The NE trending Rennick Lake Greenstone belt occurs through the center of the property consisting of metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks. The contact zone between the Hepburn Lake intrusion and rocks of the Rennick Lake Greenstone belt is the exploration target.

Mineralization
 

Mineralization identified on the property includes, native gold and copper, galena, molybdenite, pyrite, pyrrhotite, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, bornite, malachite, arsenopyrite and hematite. The Cook Gold Zone is a gold-bearing quartz vein up to 30m long and averaging ~0.30m wide with channel sampling assaying up to 79.95 g/t Au over 1m and grab sampling up to 398 g/t Au. The PA Showing consists of E-W trending quartz veins and pods up to 0.5m wide, chip/channel sampling assayed up to 4.92 g/t Au and 0.139 % Mo.

History

The Cook Au showing was discovered in 1959 and in 1966 a geophysical survey was flown over the eastern 1/3 of the property.  In the 1980’s government and industry conducted 6 programs including: lake sediment, soil, rock and till sampling, prospecting, mapping, ground-based geophysical surveying, trenching and channel sampling. The property was dormant from 1989-2019 when 7 rock samples were collected from the historical trenches.

Eagle Plains Exploration

In Spring of 2023, the available historic data was digitized, referenced in GIS, and imported into a database. It is interpreted that although veins at the showings are not very wide, the gold grades are significant and worthy of follow up. Lake sediment and till sample anomalies in the SWof the property warrant up-ice (NE) follow up. The targets are structurally-hosted gold along contacts of the intrusive and volcanic rocks.

Future Work

Recommendations for future work are to conduct a higher-level compilation of the historical exploration data and conduct modern property-scale high resolution airborne geophysical surveying to generate exploration targets. This is to be followed-up with prospecting, mapping, soil and trench sampling with drill testing of the most promising targets.

Eagle Plains - A Project Generator

Eagle Plains Resources is a project generator with mineral exploration properties of merit that meet qualifying transaction requirements.  The Cook Property, while not a project of merit, is available for option to partners.  We facilitate the listing process for capital pool companies and initial public offerings while providing technical expertise for exploration programs.  Companies interested in co-operatively exploring any of these projects please contact: Tim Termuende at tjt@eagleplains.com or Mike Labach at mgl@eagleplains.com  or call 1 866 Hunt Ore (486 8673).  

Updated December 6, 2023