The Mabel-Jenny is about 12 kilometres west of Greenwood and 4 kilometres west of Copper Mountain. Access to the property is by gravel road from Highway 3, along the Ingram Creek drainage. The Prince of Wales showing (082ESE255) lies about 1 kilometre to the west and the Pen showing (082ESE118) lies about 3 kilometres to the northeast.
The claims are underlain by Upper Paleozoic Knob Hill Group argillite, greenstone and chert. The Knob Hill is locally overlain by the sharpstone conglomerate and limestone of the Triassic Brooklyn Group and arkose and tuffs of the Eocene Kettle River Formation (Penticton Group). Intrusive rocks include granodiorite on the Middle Jurassic Nelson Batholith and syenite and diorite of the Eocene Coryell Intrusives.
Two zones of disseminated and shear-related, veined pyrrhotite-pyrite mineralization occur in Knob Hill metasediments. A 900 by 200 metre, northeast trending zone occurs just west of a northeasterly-striking fault, in the area of the open-cuts. Another 400 by 250 metre area occurs 900 metres to the north. Samples contained up to 2.28 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 21767). Pyrite-arsenopyrite, gold-bearing quartz veins also occur in quartz diorite and greenstones. A sample taken near the Coronation shaft contained up to 9.2 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 21767).
Another zone of mineralization, referred to as the Mabel-Jenny North zone, is located approximately 300 metres north east of the main Mabel-Jenny occurrence. The zone, as defined by diamond drilling, comprises a sulphide bearing biotite hornfels sediment adjacent to an intensely altered propylitic diorite.
The Coronation shaft/adit zone is located approximately 500 metres south- south west of the Mabel-Jenny zone and comprises a quartz vein with massive pyrite, arsenopyrite and pyrrhotite being exposed along the ceiling of the adit or shaft.
Work History
The claims were owned by D. Spooner and associates in 1935. Development then or before consisted of a shaft and several open-cuts. Between 1972 and 1977, Westbridge Mining Company Ltd trenched the area. In 1988, Interwest Resources Inc. carried out a soil survey. In 1990 and 1991, Canamax Resources Inc. conducted geological mapping, soil sampling and rock chip sampling.
During 2008 through 2012, Grizzly Discoveries Inc. completed programs of rock and soil sampling, geological mapping and 12 diamond drill holes, totalling 1708.5 metres, on the area as the Copper Mountain claim black of the Greenwood property. Eight holes were completed on the Mabel-Jenny occurrence area.
In 2009 and 2010, seven samples from the Mabel-Jenny area yielded from 7.06 to 19.30 grams per tonne gold, including 10.7 grams per tonne gold from a sample (09JHP209) of quartz vein exposed in an adit, while twelve samples from the Coronation zone yielded from 6.90 to 129.00 grams per tonne gold, including 99.6 grams per tonne gold from a sample (09JHP206) of quartz vein with massive sulphides from the Coronation adit (Dufresne, M. (2013-11-25): Technical Report for the Greenwood Gold Project).
In 2010, a drill hole (10CM01) yielded 0.21 gram per tonne gold over 42.8 metres of intensely propylitic altered diorite, while a drill hole (10CM06) located on the Mabel-Jenny North zone yielded 0.32 gram per tonne gold and 0.42 gram per tonne silver over 18 metres (Dufresne, M. (2013-11-25): Technical Report for the Greenwood Gold Project).
