The Idun occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 1880 metres on a west-northwest–trending ridge, east of Huckleberry Creek and approximately 3.2 kilometres east-southeast of Mount Elise.

Regionally, the area is underlain by metamorphosed sediments comprising argillite, siltstone, limestone and wacke of the Lower Jurassic Ymir Group. These have been intruded by granodiorite of the Middle Jurassic Nelson Batholith and lamprophyre dikes and sills.

Locally, at the Idun occurrence massive drusy quartz veins and quartz-filled breccias with up to 20 per cent sulphides, including pyrrhotite and galena, are associated with two parallel, northeast-trending (shear zone?) structures, separated by approximately 85 metres, and hosted within hornfelsed argillite, andalusite schists and granodiorite.

Two other similar zones of mineralization, referred to as the Bragi and Freya zones, are located approximately 450 and 800 metres, respectively, to the west-northwest of the Idun occurrence and along the same ridge. At the Bragi zone, a series of historical pits expose sheared, brecciated and moderately hornfelsed argillite hosting a 1.5-metre-wide massive quartz-filled shear zone. At the Freya zone, historical pits expose a 2.0-metre-wide, northeast-trending mineralized zone hosting a 1.5-metre-wide sheared, quartz-veined argillite and a 0.5-metre-wide drusy to massive quartz vein with low sulphides.

Work History

Numerous historical pits, of unknown age, are reported over an area of approximately 100 by 150 metres.

In 2020, Rockland Resources Ltd. completed a program of prospecting, geological mapping, geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling and an airborne (drone) magnetic survey on the area as the Old Timer property. Anomalous gold-in-soil values were identified along a 180-metre strike length to the southwest of the ‘main’ Idun pit associated with a strong magnetic linear. A rock sample (13610) of strongly limonitic hornfels with quartz and pyrrhotite from a historical pit on the Idun zone assayed 9.8 grams per tonne gold, whereas an outcrop sample of quartz and andalusite schists assayed 1.62 grams per tonne gold (Caron, L. [2020-12-02]: National Instrument 43-101 Technical Report on the Old Timer Property, Nelson Mining Division, Southern British Columbia, Canada). Also at this time, two samples (1459352 and 1459353) from the Bragi zone yielded 0.307 and 0.170 gram per tonne gold over 1.0 and 2.0 metres, respectively, whereas a sample (13614) of quartz-filling fold structures over 1 metre on the Freya zone assayed 0.151 gram per tonne gold (Caron, L. [2020-12-02]: National Instrument 43-101 Technical Report on the Old Timer Property, Nelson Mining Division, Southern British Columbia, Canada).