The Seamus, Jenn and Tyke Orogenic Gold Project comprises 270 mineral claims located in the Whitehorse Mining District of the Yukon Territory.  The Seamus 1 – 110, Jenn 1 -64 and Tyke 1 -96 mineral claims cover a total area of 5643 hectares within a regionally mappable orthogneiss unit adjacent to the highly productive Ruby Range placer gold district.

The Seamus, Jenn and Tyke Claims are located approximately 60 kilometers north of Haines Junction and 35 kilometers north of Silver City.  The claims were staked in the course of a regional exploration project conducted by Solomon encompassing the drainages of Gladstone, Swanson, Venus, Ruby, Fourth of July, Twelfth of July, Granite, McKinley and Dixie Creeks.

The project area has a rich history of placer gold mining, and a bedrock source for the placer gold has remained elusive.

The primary focus of the regional project was a sinuous band of orthogneiss identified by the Yukon Geological Survey in the 2010 field season which can be traced for at least 60 kilometers along strike within the project area. The gneiss is described as fine to medium-grained and banded with melanocratic layers composed of biotite and  hornblende, and leucocratic layers consisting of plagioclase, quartz, potassium feldspar and biotite.  It is markedly different in appearance from the adjacent Kluane Schist in that the leucocratic layers are composed of igneous appearing material rather than deformed quartz veins. Garnet is locally abundant.  It is not yet apparent whether the gneiss is a highly metamorphosed equivalent of the Kluane Schist, a portion of the Yukon-Tanana terrane, or perhaps even the metamorphosed crystalline basement of the Yukon-Tanana terrane.

Recent work by the Yukon Geological Survey has drawn new attention to this area, and a significant increase in claim staking in this belt over the past few months suggests that companies looking to acquire new and prospective ground outside of the heavily staked Dawson Range and Selwyn Basin Gold Districts are turning their attention to the underexplored Ruby Range and the newly discovered orthogneiss belt.

Geological Setting of Seamus, Jenn and Tyke Claims.  The Orthogneiss Belt appears as the orange northwesterly trending belt between Kluane Schist and Ruby Range intrusive suite.

The Seamus, Jenn and Tyke Claims are highly prospective for orogenic gold mineralization. There is a strong placer gold mining history in the creeks paralleling and immediately south of the orthogneiss unit, and regional stream geochemistry in the target area contain anomalous gold values coupled with one or more of copper, molybdenum, arsenic, mercury, antimony and bismuth.

Recent work by the Yukon Geological Survey has suggested a compelling similarity between the geological setting and mineralization potential of the Coast Belt in this area and the Juneau Gold Belt. The similarities between the two areas are striking, and the orthogneiss unit provides a viable host for orogenic gold mineralization.

Orogenic gold systems generally occur where regional hydrothermal fluids exploit crustal weaknesses in metamorphic rocks spatially associated with large-scale tectonic structures and syntectonic plutonism such as we see in the Ruby Range. Orogenic deposits typically consist of abundant quartz-carbonate veins formed over a broad range of temperatures and pressures and the mineralization is strongly structurally controlled in faults and shear zones.  Mineralization seen to date in this portion of the Ruby Range have characteristics indicative of orogenic style mineralization.