The following Oil Shale Properties are 100% owned mineral claims (Bitumen) available immediately for joint-venture, option, or sale.

GHOST CREEK OIL SHALE

MINFILES: 103F009 103F057 103F046 The Ghost Creek Oil Shale property is located on the north end of the Queen Charlotte Islands, approximately 90 kilometres west of Prince Rupert, British Columbia. The property covers over 2,063 hectares (5,095 acres), and consists of three primary showings; Ghost Creek, Yakoun River, and HC Shale.

GHOST CREEK

The Ghost Creek deposit is west of the Yakoun River, and is underlain by sediments of

the Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Kunga Group and conformably overlying Lower

Jurassic Maude Group. The upper most formation of the Kunga Group, the Upper

Triassic to Lower Jurassic Sandilands Formation, locally contains oil-bearing black

argillites and shales.

A drill hole collared along MacMillan Bloedel's Branch 46 logging road, 0.6 kilometre

northwest of Ghost Creek intersected a 242 metre section of Sandilands Formation,

comprised of thinly interbedded siltstone, argillaceous siltstone, variably tuffaceous

sandstone and shale, with minor lenses and interbeds of limestone. Bitumen is locally

present throughout the section and is somewhat more abundant in the mid third of the

interval at about 70 to 128 metres depth. Here, bitumen and oil seeps occur in fractures

and brecciated zones.

A surface exposure of oil shale is reported to occur 4.8 kilometres up Ghost Creek from

the Yakoun River, in the immediate vicinity of the drill hole. The exposure consists of a

30-metre thick section of oil shale striking east and dipping 15 degrees north.

YAKOUN RIVER OIL SHALE

The Yakoun River deposit is located between the Yakoun River and Ghost Creek, and is

similarly underlain by sediments of the Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Kunga Group

and conformably overlying Lower Jurassic Maude Group. The basal formation of the

Maude Group, the Ghost Creek Formation, consists of dark grey shale and silty shale that

is characteristically fetid and bituminous. The upper most formation of the Kunga Group,

the Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Sandilands Formation, locally also contains oilbearing

black argillites and shales.

A drill hole collared near MacMillan Bloedel's Ghost Main logging road, 2 kilometres

west of the Yakoun River, encountered a 76-metre section of Ghost Creek Formation,

comprised of very argillaceous, dark grey siltstone with minor thin interbeds of shale,

limestone and sandstone. The unit is overlain by 44 metres of medium grey siltstone and

minor sandy limestone of the Rennel Junction Formation (Maude Group) and underlain

by 90 metres of interbedded to interlaminated cyclically graded sandstone to siltstone and

lesser argillaceous siltstone of the Sandilands Formation (Kunga Group). Bitumen is

locally present throughout the Ghost Creek Formation and is somewhat more abundant in

the upper two-thirds of the formation at about 62 to 111 metres depth. Here, bitumen and

heavy oil seepage occurs in calcite veined, brecciated intervals and fractures. Similar

breccia zones and fractures in the underlying Sandilands Formation are locally

bituminous and stained with oil.

HC OIL SHALE

The HC Oil Shale deposit is located along the Yakoun River, and is underlain by

sediments of the Lower Jurassic Maude Group. The basal formation of the group, the

Ghost Creek Formation, consists of dark grey shale and silty shale that is

characteristically fetid and bituminous.

A 60 to 90 metre thick section of oil shale is reported to occur on the east side of the

Yakoun River, opposite its confluence with Phantom Creek. Mapping by the Geological

Survey of Canada (Bulletin 365, Section 10) encountered a 68.5 metre section of Ghost

Creek Formation immediately east of the river, 0.7 kilometre south of the confluence

with Phantom Creek. This section, designated the type section for the unit, consists of

dark to medium grey fetid shale with minor siltstone and argillaceous and fetid limestone.

Bitumen is locally present in the lower half of this section. Bedding strikes northeast and

dips 15 degrees south.

The Shale and HC claim groups extend across sections of the Yakoun River, and

Phantom and Ghost Creeks. Some prospecting, sampling, and test work was reported

carried out on these showings by a Nick Clarke and associates in 1921. Government

records show that in 1921 a pilot recovery plant was able to extract 20 gallons (almost

half a barrel) of oil per tonne.

1983 Macauley Report

In 1983, G. Macauley was commissioned by the Geological Survey of Canada to do a

comprehensive survey of the oil shale potential of the Queen Charlotte Islands. A link to

the entire report is available here

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