The Bluenose (North) occurrence is located near the eastern shore of Shuswap Lake, approximately 8.3 kilometres northwest of the community of Sicamous.

The area is underlain by rocks of the Hadrynian? to Paleozoic Eagle Bay Assemblage. The rocks comprise quartzite, marble, hornblende-rich skarn and pink to grey paragneiss. In general, bedding or gneissosity dips at low angles to the east. The rocks are highly deformed and minor tight folds are very abundant.

The North zone is approximately 91 metres above the lake and is poorly exposed by several pits, cuts and trenches over a length of 91 metres. It occurs in a hornblende-garnet? skarn with limy sections. Pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite are irregularly distributed over a width of at least 6 metres, with some fairly massive sections. A pit, approximately 30 metres southwest of the main trend of workings, contains abundant malachite and minor chalcopyrite in a hornblende-rich skarn. Coarse porphyritic dikes, trending slightly east of north and dipping steeply, cut paragneiss approximately 61 metres above this showing.

Work History

In 1968, Royal Canadian Ventures completed a program of geological mapping and a 8.0 line-kilometre ground magnetic and electromagnetic survey on the area as the Bluenose claims. The following year, Tranquility Explorations completed a 14.5 line-kilometre ground magnetic survey on the claims.

In 1984, the area was prospected by Larry D. Lutjen as the Golden Goose claims.

In 2019, JNR Resources Inc. completed a program of geochemical (soil, stream sediment and rock) sampling and minor packsack drilling on the area as the Triple 9 property.