The Bluenose (Road zone) occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 800 metres on a northwest-facing slope, east of Shuswap Lake and approximately 7.8 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.

Locally, a quartz-flooded breccia zone is mineralized with chalcopyrite, galena, azurite and malachite.

Work History

In 1968, Royal Canadian Ventures completed a program of geological mapping and an 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. Two grab samples (TRC-58 and TRC-59) from the Road zone yielded 83.2 and 62.3 grams per tonne silver, 1.230 and 0.929 per cent copper, 0.972 and 0.413 per cent lead with 0.791 and 0.265 per cent zinc, respectively, whereas two channel samples (Y003385-87 and Y002297) yielded 10.2 and 4.3 grams per tonne silver with 0.14 and 0.23 per cent copper over 1.40 and 2.30 metres, respectively (Henneberry, R.T. [2019-07-19]: 43-101 Technical Report, Triple 9 Project).