This claim is 4.5 kilometres northwest of Greenwood at the elevation of about 1040 metres (3400 feet) on the north slope overlooking Mother Lode creek. A good gravel road connects the property directly to Greenwood.
Production from the Morrison is recorded from 1901 to 1903. A total of 2647 tonnes of ore was shipped yielding 7.15 kilograms of gold, 26.0 kilograms of silver and 10.7 tonnes copper. A further 649 tons at an unknown grade was shipped in 1907 (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1907).
According to the early reports, exploratory shafts and cuts were completed on the property prior to 1897 and by 1899 three mineralized 'leads' were discovered running nearly parallel to Motherlode Creek. The first lead, 3.6 metres wide, was intercepted in a crosscut adit at 27 metres from the portal; the second, 1.5 metres wide, at 125 metres; and the third, 20 metres wide, at 170 metres. At the face the tunnel gained a depth of 50 metres.
Mine development to 1900 consisted of 660 metres of crosscuts and drifts, about 115 metres of sinking and raising, and 180 metres of surface trenching. By 1903 total tunnelling amounted to 1140 metres.
Little is known about the geology of the Morrison other than it appears to be a low grade skarn deposit with some crystalline limestone similar, perhaps, to the Mother Lode (082ESE034), Sunset (082ESE035) and Greyhound (082ESE050) deposits. Mineralization consists of pyrite with some pyrrhotite and minor amounts of chalcopyrite.
No estimate of mineral reserves is available.
No further work is recorded from 1907 until 1956 when a plan of underground workings dated that year shows a total of 11 holes were drilled by a Newkirk Mining Corp. from underground in the Morrison adit. The Morrison adit was re-opened and examined in 1961 by Woodgreen Mines Limited. The property was acquired by Herbert Shear in 1980 as the Lode Group. A small grid was established on the claims, and a 9.7 line kilometre ground magnetometer survey was completed. Eleven silt samples and 67 soil samples were also collected, without significant results. The following year, an additional ground magnetometer survey was done. IP surveys were done in 1992 and 1993. One diamond drill hole, totalling 119.5 metres, was drilled to test the western-most IP anomaly. The hole was collared about 325 metres west-northwest of the Morrison showing. Following Mr. Shear’s death in early 2002, the Lode claims lapsed and were subsequently acquired by John Kemp as the Bud property. In 2003, Saville Resources Inc. optioned the Bud property that includes the Morrison mine.
In 2003, Saville Resources completed a work program comprising surface trenching and sampling, and also rehabilitated the Morrison adit to facilitate underground mapping and sampling. Pyrrhotite-pyrite-chalcopyrite mineralization on the property occurs along a skarned tuff contact with limestone. Poddy zones of massive sulphide mineralization returned an average grade of 1.9 grams per tonne gold, 19.5 grams per tonne silver, and 1.5 per cent copper over an average width of 1.3 metres (Exploration and Mining in BC 2003, page 37). A gossan zone in limestone exposed during trenching averaged 7.8 grams per tonne gold, 9.3 grams per tonne silver, 0.2 per cent copper and 0.48 per cent zinc over 1.1 metres; high gold values of 14.5 grams per tonne gold came from grab samples of the gossan zone (Exploration and Mining in BC 2003, page 37). Eighty metres northeast of this zone, quartz-pyrite-chalcopyrite mineralization in chert assayed 51.6 grams per tonne gold, 403 grams per tonne silver, and 4.16 per cent copper in one grab sample (Exploration and Mining in BC 2003, page 37).
In 2005, Saville Resources completed a three-hole drill program totalling 538 metres. Highlighted results included a 0.15 metre section grading 14.3 grams per tonne gold, 22.6 grams per tonne silver, and 0.27 percent copper (Caron, L. (2012-11-16): National Instrument 43-101 Technical Report on the Bud-Elk Property).
