The BA 1-2 occurrence is located on an east-facing slope, east of July Creek and southwest of Jeff Creek.

The area is underlain by limestone, greenstone and argillite of the Permian Attwood Group, sharpstone conglomerate and limestone of the Triassic Brooklyn Group and ultramafic rocks of the Carboniferous to Permian Mount Roberts Formation.

Locally, a zone or zones of skarnification and silicification hosts seams and blebs of quartz/silica and calcite hosting chalcopyrite, sphalerite and copper oxides.

Work History

Historical trenches and a 9-metre-deep shaft, dating to the late 1800s or early 1900s, are reported to have been developed on the occurrence area.

In 1971, a sample (#2) of quartz-oxides-chalcopyrite is reported to have assayed 7.07 per cent copper, whereas a sample (#3) of calcite-zinc blend (sphalerite?) is reported to have assayed 4.66 per cent zinc, 1.55 per cent lead, 3669 grams per tonne silver and 8.91 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 10628).

In 1982, Weymark Engineering Ltd. completed a program of geological mapping and minor sampling on the area as the BA 1-4 claims. Two samples (A and B) from the shaft dump assayed 0.13 and 0.25 per cent zinc, 102.2 and 34.3 grams per tonne silver with 0.17 and 0.10 gram per tonne gold, respectively (Assessment Report 10628).

In 1983, Kettle River Resources Ltd. completed a program of geological mapping on the area as the RB property. In 1985 and 1988, Noranda Mining and Exploration Inc. completed programs of geological mapping, soil sampling and ground magnetic and electromagnetic surveys on the area as the PAC and RB claims of the Eagle 85 property.

In 2020, Belmont Resources Inc. completed a program of airborne LiDAR and magnetic surveys on the area as the Come By Chance (CBC) property.