In May 2022, Vancouver-based General Copper Gold Corp. announced it had raised $748,000 through the sale of shares to explore the Topley Richfield property, located eight kilometres north of the village of Topley, B.C. – roughly 277 km west of Prince George.
"General is very excited to add Topley to our portfolio with a view to following up on previous drilling. Analysis of the historic drilling appears to indicate an epithermal system and our plan is to test the identified fold axis which sits quite near surface,” Gahagan said in a statement issued on July 20, 2021. “With the excellent infrastructure and our local logistics partners, we will be able to make significant progress quickly and affordably.
“It is accessible by road, power runs through the western side of the Property and the village of Topley is less than 10km away,” the company’s July 27, 2021 statement said. “Previous exploration has focussed on expanding the known mineralization. General will use the data from historic work to inform the current drilling program.”
When Taylor and his company were issuing shares to attract capitol, an advertisement posted in the Citizen by the company boasted the company owned or had options on 55 mineral claims in the “now famous” Topley Richfield area. A Citizen editorial, published in Jan. 9, 1930, said that operation closed down with $200,000 left in the treasury and $50,000 in equipment at the site. The company had dug 1,600 metres of underground works on two levels, accessed by an inclined shaft, along with substantive drilling, but no mining was done, according to an engineer’s report from 1999.
Toronto-based NXA Inc. had just acquired the rights to the site from a numbered Ontario company, and Wetherup and his colleagues were hired to conduct an inspection and report on the site in 2006. The report has been made public by the B.C. Geological Survey.After Taylor left, in 1937 new owners discovered a gold-bearing structure roughly 300 metres east of the original underground mine.
In 1975, Canadian Superior Exploration Ltd. conducted the first induced polarization and resistivity survey of the site, Wetherup wrote. The company drilled four holes in the area of the old mine works, and intersected the area between the two mine levels.
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