Keithley Creek gold discovery
MINFILE records July discovery near the creek mouth. District history, not production by Yellow Brick Resources.
03 / The archive
A record worth revisiting.
Selected district and wider-property programs by earlier operators. Read the work alongside its limitations.
4,573 mSelected historical diamond drilling
28Holes in the selected historical subtotal
60.15 line-kmMagnetic acquisition · 2013, 2016 & 2018
Approximate drilling subtotal and method-specific survey totals across the wider historical property—not an audited lifetime inventory or work confirmed entirely within the supplied current mineral outline. These are not mineral resources or reserves. Sources and limitations →
The record, in context.
Programs covered separate locations and objectives. Their relationship to current rights must be confirmed before results are described as on-property. Dates refer to fieldwork where established, rather than archived filenames.
Yanks Peak quartz veins
Talbot and Larsen located veins on the southwest slope. Talbot and Midas remain separate district references.
Historical placer investigation
Test pits, bulk sampling, drilling and seismic surveys investigated bench gravels across earlier holdings.
Bedrock drilling and IP
Four tabulated holes totalled approximately 538 m on J1 and CAC targets. Graphite and sulphides helped explain electrical responses; selected core remained unassayed.
Sonic drilling
Three holes, approximately 75 m, examined sediment between tills. The work did not demonstrate the previously proposed buried “Tertiary” pay gravels.
Further diamond drilling
Programs are recorded in ARIS 24355, 24825 and 26659. Inclusion in the wider subtotal does not verify current-claim locations.
CAC diamond drilling
Geological logs and analytical records provide a basis for reassessment. Reviewed core summaries reported low gold values. Actual work year: 2005, not the archived filename date.
Weaver–Snowshoe soils
A 251-sample survey refined earlier gold-anomaly patterns into more discrete historical targets.
Magnetics and geochemistry
The 2013 magnetic/VLF survey and 2016 magnetic and geochemical work added structural and lithological information.
Integrated ground surveys
23.95 line-km of shared magnetic/VLF traverses and 5.3 line-km of IP. Original magnetic, chargeability and resistivity plans are in the map library.
Separate Lou investigations
Separate 2018 and 2019 IP lines were followed by three-line HVSR surveying in 2021. An interpreted bedrock-low trend was recommended for testing, not demonstrated as a continuous payable channel.
Count the work. Keep the context.
The supplied revision-3 copy summarizes approximately 4,573 m of diamond drilling in 28 holes from selected programs in ARIS 15847, 16399, 21523, 24355, 24825, 26659 and 28442. This wider-property subtotal is not an independently audited lifetime total or verified current-tenure collar inventory.
The 60.15 line-km of magnetic acquisition covers campaigns in 2013, 2016 and 2018. VLF was collected along 50.15 km of those traverses. Shared coverage is not counted twice as extra ground; line-kilometres are not unique ground area.
The revision-2 campaign ledger cited by the revision-3 copy was not included in the website package. Totals are presented with that source limitation, not as a new independent audit.
Source references.
- BC MINFILE 093A 004 — Keithley Creek. Discovery and placer history.
- BC MINFILE 093A 028 — Talbot Veins / Yanks Peak. Local geology and vein history.
- BC MINFILE 093A 035 — Midas. Separate district workings.
- ARIS 21523 — Shearer (1991). 1990 drilling and historical compilation; physical PDF pp.14–17, 26, 28–31.
- ARIS 28442 — Timmins (2006). Actual 2005 CAC drilling.
- Other selected drilling subtotal sources: ARIS 15847, ARIS 16399, ARIS 24355, ARIS 24825, ARIS 26659.
- ARIS 34472 — Timmins (2013). Magnetic/VLF survey.
- ARIS 36540 — Kikauka (2016). Magnetics and geochemistry.
- ARIS 37933 — Blanchflower (2019), with Scott Geophysics Ltd. appendices. September 2018 work. Physical PDF p.48: magnetics; p.71: chargeability; p.72: resistivity.
Additional chronology is summarized from the supplied 30 October 2026 website copy, citing a 14 October comprehensive review, Lorimer’s 1983 report, the July 1991 sonic report and the 2021 Lou HVSR report. Those underlying local documents were not included in the website kit; this is not a new independent audit.
The Yanks Peak project