Overview
Goldcliff holds a 20,503 hectare land position in the historic Tulameen/Copper Mountain district, near Princeton, B.C. The property was acquired by staking in early 2008 and as such Goldcliff holds a 100 per cent interest.
The Tulameen project property is located within the southern portion of the Quesnel terrane, or Quesnellia, of the Intermontane tectonic belt of British Columbia. Quesnellia is a northwesterly trending belt of Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic submarine and subaerial alkali and calc-alkali volcanic rocks, related sedimentary rocks, and comagmatic intrusive rocks.
In the southern part of the province this assemblage of volcanoplutonic arc rocks is known as the Nicola group. Throughout the Intermontane tectonic belt these rocks are noted for their mineral deposits, principally copper-gold porphyry deposits, and copper and gold skarns. The large, northerly trending fault systems -- such as the Allison, Summers Creek, Whipsaw and Boundary-- are believed to represent deep-seated crustal features that dominated the geology of the region in the Late Triassic time.
The Tulameen project property has the geological setting for alkalic copper-gold porphyry, Alaskan gold-platinum, Kuroko gold-silver-zinc, and other vein-type deposits associated with the Tertiary Princeton group and Triassic Nicola group rocks.
The most significant mineral occurrence in the district is the Copper Mountain Mine. The Copper Mountain mine project, located 15 kilometres southwest of Princeton, B.C., is 75 per cent owned by Copper Mountain Mining and 25 per cent owned by Mitsubishi Materials Corp. The project is an open-pit, porphyry copper mine that operated from 1972 to 1996 and produced 1.74 billion pounds of copper, 9.1 million ounces of silver and 730,000 ounces of gold. The current resource is estimated at five billion pounds of copper at a cut-off grade of 0.15 per cent copper. The resource estimate incorporates data from over 4,400 historical drill holes (totalling approximately 400,000 metres) and 370 new drill holes (totalling 107,000 metres) drilled by Copper Mountain in 2007 and 2008.
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