# 2001 Field Data

Bedrock:
near carbonate replacement mineralization, Argus Property


Topo Position:
Side slope above Greta Lake - sampled crest of streamlined landform


Topo Position:
Side (lower flank) of streamlined landform

Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Till was dry, more oxidized to bottom of pit (may indicate proximal bedrock)


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Till was dry, more oxidized to bottom of pit (may indicate proximal bedrock), sample is filed duplicate of JB00-010.


Topo Position:
Top of plateau on east-side of Greta Lake


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
shallow pit, limited c-horizon due to proximity of bedrock, sample may contain some b-horizon material.  Note 15-22 is c-horizon


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Bedrock nearby on crag.  Lots of cobbles and pebbles.  Some oxidized clasts.  Proximal bedrock, approximately 50m.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Wet sample due to permafrost.  In line (ice flow) with JB00-024


Topo Position:
Ridge adjacent to the Pelly River valley


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Soil is poorly developed and till matrix is coarser than usual.  Locally, the area has undergone minor frost/thaw slumping.  Probably following a forest fire.  Slump scars are still visible (5m across).


Topo Position:
Slumped end slope of streamlined feature

Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Permafrost tahw slumping present.  Numerous cobbles.  Ash layer (pods) at depth.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Appear to be frost boils on surface.  Same geomorphology as 30-32.  Mottled with organics and till (reworked) at depth.  More clay, less reworked than samples 30-32.  Random pockets of organics.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Appears to be cryoturbated, minor organics at depth in pods.  Mottled appearance to soil.  No well defined B or A horizon, possible distorted by frost action.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Lots of angular clasts.  No bedrock contacted


Topo Position:
Side slope of tail of crag and tail landform

Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Thin veneer (10cm) of what appears to be water washed gravel.


Topo Position:
Top of low hill south west of Greta Lake


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Sporadic oxidized clasts.  Numerous angular clasts.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Sporadic oxidized clasts.  Numerous angular clasts.  Duplicate of 040.


Topo Position:
Crest of hillside / plateau edge westof Vera Lake


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Frost boil, micaceous fines?  Fault gouge?, angular clasts and oxidized.  Greasy soft feel.  0-24 olive till and 24+ brown till.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Evidence of past cryoturbation, 12-20 cm approx. have mixed A and B due to above.  Wavy contact.  20-52  cryoturbation till with few clasts.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Strongly oxidized clasts - numerous and angular.  Colour change at 44cm, more oxidized.  Dry colour sample


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Jeff Boyce started readings in degrees today.  Colour change in till from buff to gray at 56cm.  Minor oxidized clasts.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Colour change at 35cm from buff to dark gray


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
White to gray and white weathering on clasts


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Colour change from buff to grey till at 44cm.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Colour change from buff to grey till at 44cm.  Duplicate of JB00-055.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Change from a more washed sediment at 47cm to a more diamict structure.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Limited soil development due to frost thaw slumping.  Colour change at 29cm from colluviated till to an intact till.  Light olive grey to dark olive grey.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Some browny clasts at depth, weathered out


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Strong oxidation in B-horizon.  Gritty texture probably due to proximity to granitic bedrock?


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Sample is near what appears to be a kill zone (seep) at edge of lake.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Sample is near what appears to be a kill zone (seep) at edge of lake.  Duplicate of JB00-062.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Oxidized clasts present.  Colour change from brown to olive at 40cm.  Blazed line flagged - NK FS 97 14.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Well developed b-hoizon, some partially sorted lenses.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Has signs of being fluvially reworked, questionable sample.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Colour change and texture change at 50cm.  Olive brown to olive gray.  Increase in clay.  Oxidized clasts present.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Colour change from brown to more gray at 50cm.


Topo Position:
Low rolling topography, bedrock in the area.

Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Colour change at 50cm from brown to olive.  Some orange oxidized clasts.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Colour change at 50cm from brown to olive.  Some orange oxidized clasts.  Duplicate of JB00-072.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Sporadic oxidized clasts.  Numerous angular black shale fragments (local bedrock).  Entire section is approximately 35m.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Sample exposure.  Total height of section is 40m at this site.  Sample taken from approx 20m depth in a dark gray till.  A buff till caps the section with 3 m of till.  Sporadic oxidized (yellow or orange) clasts.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Everything is dark stained.  Even ash layer


Topo Position:
crest of distal tail of streamlined landform


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
possibly some colluviation near "B" horizon


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
cryoturbation present (active layer 24-40cm)


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
numerous angular clasts, some oxidized orange


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
colour change at 53cm from buff to grey; bedrock at base

Bedrock:
graphitic phylite? Based on black colour


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
colour change at 33cm from buff to grey; bedrock at base


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
numerous graphytic phylite? Shards; non-recognizable "B"; (regosol) ;permafrost in the vicinity


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
colluviated (bank erosion mass wasting) till; permafrost environment


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
sampled on ridge -that is a linear extension of ridge higher up


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
melting permafrost in area; cryoturbated soil; few clasts; sampled lense of till overlying organics. 11.5-34 =till; 34+ = organic


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
mixed "A" horizon and ash; 14+ is cryoturbated till & organics; minor oxidized clasts


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
very wet; some oxidized clasts; 0-12 maybe "A" included; discontinuous ash


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
some oxidized clasts; weak "B" development; very high clay content


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
frost thaw slump reworking (edge of burn); 9-60cm mixed colluvial till & organics/ash


Topo Position:
crest of large streamlined ridge (just off crest)


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
colour change at 58 from olive to grey; abundance of angular clasts


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
texture change at 35cm from silty sand to courser matrix


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
numerous oxidized clasts in uppper part (see R-020)


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
landform trends at 280; numerous course grained intrusive cobbles


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
ultramafic clasts in pebble component; till veneer over water-washed sediment; till is 10cm thick; 19-29cm = till; 29cm+= gravel


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
contact at 42cm; 11-42 Glacial fluvial outwash, 42+ basal till


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
29-53  "C" horizon sampled; 53-54 organic horizon; 54+ intact parent material


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
26-64 colluviated till 7 organics; 64+ Basal till


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
larger angular boulders; proximal bedrock; 0range oxidized clasts


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
some oxidized clasts; colluviated veneer accentuates thickness of "B" horizon


Topo Position:
gentle slope proximal to columnar basalt cliffs

Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
sporadic oxidized clasts; numerous polished chert pebbles; no obvious "B"


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
oxidized clasts present; ash is mixed with "A" horizon; change of 42cm from a brown to a more gray till. Clasts in brown till have orange oxidization and clasts in gray till have charcoal or white oxidization.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
colour and textural change at 64cm from brown to light olive brown (basal meltout to basal lodgement)


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
numerous oxidized clasts, many are friable and weathered - may influence duplicate values


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
numerous oxidized clasts, many are friable and weathered - may influence duplicate values  DUPLICATE


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
textural change at 34cm from clay dominated matrix to a sand dominated matrix


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
textural change at 23cm to a glacial fluvial sand


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Sporadic oxidized clasts, graphitic phyllite present.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Mixed A-horizon and ash, some polished chert pebbles.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Duplicate of JB00-153, Many oxidized clasts


Topo Position:
Gentle slope of rise on peninsula into lake

Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Highly oxidized "B" horizon, textural change at 31 from a till to an outwash.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Graphitic bedrock, will be a strong influence on geochemistry, bedrock at 48cm.  At 29cm graphitic influence in till is evident.


Topo Position:
Ridge of elongated landform. Aspect taken down ridge (sloping).


Topo Position:
Crest of Ridge (perpendicular to ice flow)


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Sporadic oxidized clasts, poorly drained, numerous angular clasts.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Numerous orange oxidized clasts (heavy?), Poorly defined b-horizon.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
14-48, a cryoturbated "B"; 48+ regular till.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Bedrock exposed on Star Creek nearby, many oxidized clasts.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Colour change at 41cm from a brown to a more gray till.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
150m west of 00 claim line 296 degrees.  Bearing 20 degrees and 200 degrees.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Colour change olive till to dark gray till at 47 cm.  Both till types included in sample.  Lower till colour - 5Y 4/1 (dark gray).  Upper till colour - 5Y 4/3 (olive).  Possible bedrock change.

Matrix texture:
olive - silty clay; dark gray - clayey sand


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
300 m south of strike line.  Sporadic oxidized clasts.


Topo Position:
Base of low hill adjacent to small drainage.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Large clasts and very oxidized in B-horizon.  Jeff thinks this sample will run!


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
B-horizon seems to be slightly colluviated.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Elevation in metres.  Proximal to bedrock. Few striated clasts.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Elevation in metres.  Abundant oxidized clasts.  Few striated clasts.


Lithology Notes:
Possible fossil in siltstone (graptolite).


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Elevation in metres.  Poor soil development (regosol?)  Occasional oxidized clasts in profile.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Elevation in metres.  Numerous boulders in area (foliated granites?)


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Duplicate of JB01-012.  Elevation in metres.  Numerous boulders in area (foliated granites?)


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Close to gossan (downice?)  Bedrock at 45 cm.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Bedrock at 30+ cm (phyllite).  Oxidation due to B-horizon?


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Analyze for PGE's.  Some oxidized clasts.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Oxidized sediment layer (21-33 cm) above bedrock.  Sampled grey till above oxidation.  4-21 cm:  C-horizon.  21+ cm:  bedrock.

Bedrock:
Graphitic schist?  Weathered bedrock in pit.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Patchy ash.  Bedrock at 30 cm.  Oxidized clasts throughout.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Duplicate of JB01-033.  Bedrock at 39 cm.


Lithology Notes:
Numeropus granite (?) (intermediate) boulders around site


Topo Position:
sideslope near tree line, lateral morraine

Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
oxidized clasts, till has proximal source, approx. 10m to 200m, 12-21 C horizon, 21+ is bedrock


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Sampled just for pebbles, Stream cut in alpine end moraine, coarse deposit - few fines


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
mixed A and C horizons due to cryoturbation


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
oxidezed clasts present, weak soil development


Topo Position:
Slight hollow in lee of outcrop on sideslope


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
-many oxidized clasts throughout, pit filled up with water, patchy ash

Bedrock:
weathered bedrock at base of pit, weathered Quartzite?


Topo Position:
Plateau- Gravel pit/ below Ablution Till

Lithology Notes:
Quartz carbonates present and large boluder of foliated chert pebble conglomerate and granite, should be from till.


Topo Position:
Crest of hill adjacent (west) of Mink Creek crossing


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Basal till buried by ablation till carying numerous orthogneiss boulders (very local)

Lithology Notes:
Few to no orthoneiss clasts in till sampled below abation till.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
sampled for comparison w/ underlying basal till

Lithology Notes:
Lots of orthogeiss angular boulders- definite erratic train in area.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
appears micaeous
oxidized bands in till
some clasts oriented vertically


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
-sample taken approx over top of KZK deposit.
-sample is micaceous looking.
-poorly defined B horizon
-colour cahange at 45cm may indicate depth of colluviated till


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
approx 100m down ice flow (north) of KZK deposit.


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
More clay and silt than previous 3 samples
Poorly developed B-horizon
Moderate number of oxidized clasts throughout
Sorted lenes of coarse sand in till


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Sporadic oxidized clasts, buried organics 14-20, 20-33 colluviated till


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
cryoturbated soil with organics at depth, poor soil development, more organics at 37cm


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
weak soil development, sporadic oxidized clasts


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
cryoturbated big time!!!!,  more angular clasts,  some organics in sample due to cryoturbation


Topo Position:
Edge of meltwater channel , partial exposure


Topo Position:
edge of meltwater channel, partial exposure


Lithology Notes:
numerous pebble and cobble size intrusive rocks; graphitic phyllite (angular) present


Lithology Notes:
SR & SA granitic boulders , some foliated


Topo Position:
terrace edge near Hoole river with rad scenery

Lithology Notes:
good sulphide showing in quartz pyrite clast


Topo Position:
mouth of alpine valley near Tintina trench


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
about 80m section  with amphitheatre hoodoos


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Till has changed to a more clayey texture from the two previous samples


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
colour change from brown to gray till at 34cm


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
some oxidized clasts, about 30m above river, large exposure


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Bedrock at 45m, sporadic oxidized clasts


Bedrock:
massive orange clay (oxidized mudstone) with quartzite veins and crystals


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
14-56 cm cryturbated, 56cm+ till, outcrop (01-CR-142) nearby


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
at 32cm+ very dark gray till, ash horizon is lumpy


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
high organic content in till sample, cryturbated, till 20-52cm


Topo Position:
crest of low rise in mature second growth

Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
angular siltstone cobbles - black = earn group, a few oxidized clasts


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
cryoturbation present, oxidized clasts, sample taken 100m from vegetation anomaly


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
textural change at 38cm, sample  was taken from 27-35 cm where loamy till was found, sandier at depth


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
very angular clasts below till, perhaps a buried  colluvium at depth, till 30-40cm, oxidized colluvium


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
colluviated till below organic cover, numerous oxidized clasts, pale yellow oxidation, pf at 45-66


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
Two texturally and colour different till observed in the pit. Sample the higher clay component till


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
micaceous matrix, possible carbonates present in till


Topo Position:
crest of low bedrock rise perpendicular to ice flow


Topo Position:
tributary to Hoole river, amphitheatre sedtion


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
creek section at 15m above creek and 15m below surface


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
oxidized patches, near seep - white mineralisation at surface


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
bank of creek - cut by drain lake flood, 4m of till overlain by 1-2m of pebbly gravel


Bedrock:
phyllite - see JB01- 156 rock sample, chloritic?


Lithology Notes:
angular graphitic phyllite cobble - resistant


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
highly cohesive, pebbly till, possible stratification suggesting meltout?


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
highly cohesive, pebbly till, possible stratification suggesting meltout?, duplicate of JB01-162


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
permafrost flow till -post burn feature?


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
- abondant wahsed gravel sampled less of basal till? - 12-22 whashed gravel - 22-34 diamict


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
- Asses geochemistry separatly from till samples - oxidized clast - numerous argillites


Soil and Sedimentary Notes:
- sampled in frost boil : no soil profile - oxidized tone in sample.


Bedrock:
Phyllite ~ pale + fractured in pit ~ reddish hue


Lithology Notes:
numerous oxidized and very oxidized clasts


# pmatgi2001

VEGETATION:
spruce & willow & dwarf birch & subalpine fir


VEGETATION:
alpine fir & spruce & willow & dwarf birch


BEDROCK:
near carbonate replacement mineralization, Argus Property


