In 1996, Freegold Recovery Inc. outlined a +5,000 foot long multi-element soil anomaly on the Goose Creek prospect (Freeman and others, 1998). The core of the grid, covering an area approximately 2,000 feet by 1,000 feet, averaged over 100 parts per billion (ppb) gold, three times the mean gold value over the project area. This anomaly trends N 80 W and was extended to a length of 10,000+ feet in 1997. The anomaly is located in lower plate rocks of the Fairbanks Schist and appears to have secondary anomalies associated with district scale northeast trending structures similar to those on the Cleary Hill (ARDF no. LG119), Dolphin (ARDF no. LG112) and Wolf Creek (ARDF no. LG138) prospects. Mineralization is characterized as intrusion and schist-hosted, gold bearing stockwork veins, shears and disseminations. Initial drilling in late 1997 consisted of 5,038 feet of reverse circulation drilling in 11 holes. Preliminary assay results from one hole returned intercepts averaging up to 0.118 ounce of gold per ton over 160 feet in highly sericitized chlorite schist cut by 10 to 20 percent white quartz veins. Anomalous gold is associated with anomalous arsenic, antimony, lead, silver, and zinc. Pyrite is relatively abundant in the sericitic alteration envelope but does not appear to be correlative with gold values.

Soil sampling in 1996 lead to the discovery of a multi-element soil anomaly more than 5,000 feet long. Initial drilling in late 1997 consisted of 5,038 feet of reverse circulation drilling in 11 holes. In 1998, 10 reverse circulation holes totaling 5,017 feet were drilled (Freeman and others, 1998).