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Skarn, Mesothermal veins, Orogenic veins, Polymetallic veins

Au, Ag

The Livingstone District consists of 27 contiguous and non-contiguous claim blocks for a total of approximately 7,200 claims. The claim blocks cover approximately 1,500 km2 and are located between 45 and 140km northeast of Whitehorse in the Whitehorse Mining District, Yukon Territory Canada. The properties are accessible by helicopter and fixed-wing aircraft from the Livingstone Airstrip, and partially accessible via winter road from Whitehorse.

The Livingstone District is an active placer mining district which has produced an estimated 50,000 oz. of gold since the early 1900s (Colpron, 2006). The gold recovered from the Livingstone area is generally coarse-grained, with 50% being larger than 1/4” and the rest between 1/4” and 20 mesh in size (Yukon Placer Mining Industry 2007-2009) and is commonly associated magnetite suggesting a nearby source of possible skarn style mineralization (Colpron, 2006).

Golden Predator staked the claims in 2011 and holds a 100% interest in the properties subject to a 1 or 2% Royalty.

Very little is known about the early historical work carried out around the Livingstone District although there is evidence of hard rock exploration likely associated with the placer activity as far back as the early 1900’s.

Small claim groups were staked intermittently in the area between 1980 and 2000 and small programs including, mapping, sampling, ground geophysics, and trenching were carried out.

Some of the best results came from the Livingstone Showing (not owned by Golden Predator), where grab samples from a mineralized quartz vein found at a historic portal entrance returned values averaging 2.1 g/t Au and 41.1 g/t Ag and selected samples of oxidized material containing fine grained galena averaged 41.1 g/t Au and 363.4 g/t Ag (Yukon Minfile 105E 001).    

Gold within the district is commonly associated with quartz-sulphide veins cutting Paleozoic metasedimentary rocks of the Snowcap Complex, which may be related to the intrusion of a large tonalitic intrusion or associated skarn mineralization.

Golden Predator staked the district to cover a number of possible geologic sources for the placer gold at the headwaters of proven and potential gold-bearing creeks. In 2011, Golden Predator carried out regional scale stream and soil sample programs to evaluate and delineate potential exploration targets.

The Livingstone District is underlain by Devonian-Mississippian, Yukon Tanana Terrain metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks, which have been intruded by Late-Devonian to Late-Cretaceous plutonic suites. The district is fault bound by the Big Salmon Fault in the west and the D’Abbadie fault to the west.

The Yukon Tanana Terrain in the Livingstone district is divided into five successions of metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks (Colpron, 2006). The western most succession is called the Snowcap Complex, which consists of quartzite, metapsammite and minor black phyllite interbedded with chlorite schist, and amphibolite. East of the Snowcap Complex in the Southern portion of the Livingstone District is the Livingstone Creek Succession, which consists of metavolcaniclastic rocks interbedded with marble. East of the Livingstone Creek Succession is the Mendocina Succession, which consists of a 2-3 km thick greenstone unit in fault contact with a serpentinized mafic and ultramafic unit to the east. The Last Peak Succession lies to the north east of the Mendocina and consists of graphitic phyllite, quartzite, chloritic phyllite, and marble with minor polymictic conglomerate. Finally the Dycer Creek Succession which is only found east of the D’Abbadie Fault Zone consists of quartzite, chloritic phyllite, graphitic phyllite, and marble.

At least 5 distinct suites of plutonic rocks intrude the Yukon Tanana Terrain in the Livingstone District. The largest intrusive body consists of strongly foliated and locally gneissic, fine grained tonalite to granodiorite which intrudes metasedimentary rocks of the Snowcap Complex.  Colpron (2005) noted that the placer streams in the Livingstone District generally occur around this large Early-Mississippian metatonalite body and that Skarn-style mineralization related to the intrusion may represent a lode source for the Livingstone Gold. During the 2004-2005 season Colpron noted several new showings including the Dycer Showing (Yukon Minfile 105E 065); a 1m thick massive to semi-massive pyrrhotite horizon associated with garnet-diopside-epidote Skarn-style mineralization and the RK showing; a galena quartz vein where several grabs samples ranged from 52 g/t Ag to 108 g/t Ag.   

Golden Predator is currently compiling all historical geological data for the Livingstone District, and will uses this data to plan future work programs for this property. Golden Predator is also currently collecting regional scale soil and stream sediment samples to evaluate the district on a regional scale to define more focused future projects.

There are no current results for the Livingstone District

Technical information on this property description was reviewed and approved by Gilles Dessureau, M.Sc., P.Geo. Mr. Dessureau is a Senior Geologist employed by Golden Predator.

Colpron, M., 2006. Geology and mineral potential of the Yukon-Tanana Terrane in the Livinstone Creek area (NTS 105E/08), south central Yukon. In: Yukon Exploration and Geology, 2005. Yukon Geological Survey. P.93-107.

Yukon Placer Mining Industry 2007-2009. W.P. LeBarge and M.G. Nordling (compilers), 2011. Yukon Geological Survey, 151 p.