The Bug occurrence is located at 1069 metres elevation, 500 metres north of the confluence of Eugene and Tuzo creeks, 5 kilometres south-southwest of Beaverdell. The occurrence is located on the Bill claim group (formerly Lot 2979 Crown grant), currently held by Midland Energy Resources Ltd. Immediately to the southwest the Goldbug claim group is currently held by Belinda Mines Ltd.
There are old workings at and surrounding the Bug occurrence including small caved adits, opencuts and trenches. No records could be found on these workings.
The Bug occurrence is underlain by granodiorite, quartz diorite, diorite, quartz monzonite and monzonite of the Middle Jurassic Nelson intrusions and Cretaceous to Tertiary Okanagan batholith. Three kilometres to the north these rocks are intruded by a one to two kilometre diameter stock of Eocene Coryell monzonite. Approximately 5 kilometres to the east is a small pendant of Carboniferous to Permian metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks of the Anarchist Group. Five fault orientations have been found to the east on Wallace Mountain; of which two are important with respect to mineralization. High-angle north striking normal faults, dipping steeply to the east, divide Wallace Mountain into several large blocks which displace veins. Southwest striking normal faults dip moderately steeply to the northwest have displacements of a few centimetres to several metres. Fault spacing is locally on a metre scale, dividing veins into numerous short sections.
A 1-metre quartz vein was discovered on the Bill 4 claim. It is hosted in a shear zone striking 010 degrees and dipping 27 degrees to the east. The vein is traceable on surface for 5 metres and the hostrock is granodiorite that is hematite, limonite and jarosite altered within the shear zone. Chalcopyrite comprises the only visible sulphide. Some malachite staining is also present. The vein appears to pinch and swell along strike but widens with depth.
Sample 017405 taken from this vein yielded 0.27 gram per tonne gold, 64.80 grams per tonne silver and 0.11 per cent copper. Sample 017406, taken 25 metres to the south, yielded 0.62 gram per tonne gold and 0.34 gram per tonne silver (Assessment Report 10044). A follow-up geochemical soil survey identified a large zinc anomaly surrounding this showing. Other elements produced only local anomalies suggesting sporadic, discontinuous and localized mineralization.
To the immediate south on the Bug 2 claim, four drillholes were completed in 1983 to investigate a vein discovered by trenching and surface sampling. Only drillhole Bug #1 intersected the vein at depth. Pyrite and hematite in a quartz gangue were visible. Holes Bug #2 and #3 were abandoned and hole #4 did not intersect the vein. Quartz monzonite was the dominant rock type intersected. Holes #1 and #4 intersected several strongly chlorite and epidote altered breccia zones with siliceous fragments, pyrite and magnetite. The breccias were up to 1.8 metres thick. Samples from these two holes were not assayed, however. A sample from the top of hole #2 was assayed and yielded 198.86 grams per tonne silver, 1.52 per cent lead and 0.54 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 14317). Minor sericite, K-feldspar and carbonate alteration were also noted.
During 2007 through 2009, Intigold Gold Mines Ltd. completed programs of rock and soil sampling and am airborne geophysical survey on the area as the Beaverdell property.
