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Introduction

In 1993 a multisensor airborne geophysical survey, combining gamma ray spectrometric (GRS), magnetic total field (MTF) and very low frequency electromagnetic (VLF-EM) sensors was flown over the entire Ironmask Batholith area, near Kamloops, British Columbia.  The survey was funded by Teck Exploration Limited (Teck) and flown by Sander Geophysics Limited under contract to the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC).

Comparison of the new airborne survey patterns soon revealed an astonishing correlation with the twenty most significant known deposits, including the then operating copper-gold mines at Afton and Ajax. Following a brief period of exclusivity, results were published at 1:150,000 scale as a series of colour interval maps and stacked profiles (GSC Open File 2817) and as digital data.

Under a GSC-Teck Joint Venture agreement, the airborne data provided regional and local frameworks for bedrock mapping and testing of new exploration strategies, including conventional and selective leach soil analyses (Enzyme Leach methodology), biogeochemical methods, lithogeochemical sampling and ground gamma ray spectrometry. As much of the work was focused within Teck-held property, such as the Rainbow zone, some of the interesting regional targets indicated by the airborne survey may have received little or no attention. The Beaton Claims overlie one of these anomalous zones.