The Moore occurrence is located on a ridge between East and North Barriere lakes, approximately 2 kilometres west of Baird Lake.
The area is underlain by the Cambrian to Mississippian Eagle Bay assemblage of the Kootenay Terrane. These consist of micaceous quartzite, grit, phyllite and quartz mica schist. Upper portions of this unit consist of chlorite schist, limestone, calcareous phyllite, calc-silicate schist and amphibolite.
Locally, an interbedded package of green chlorite schist with schistose argillite and quartz sericite schist occur and host two or more sulphide zones.
The property was discovered in the early to mid- 1960's when mineralized float was traced from East Barriere Lake by George and Tom Moore. They optioned the property to Scurry Rainbow Oils in 1966, who established 80 kilometres of grid and partially covered it with magnetic and electro-magnetic surveys. The Gourlay and Moore brothers re-staked the property and drilled five short packsac drill holes apparently encountering 0.5 metre of massive sulphide and silver mineralization. In 1969, drilling on mineralized outcrops of pyrrhotite -magnetite -chalcopyrite zones in skarny amphibolite returned:
1. EBL 69-1: 0.30% copper over 36.89 metres
2. EBL 69-2: 0.30% copper over 24.39 metres
3. EBL 69-4: 0.44% copper over 18.90 metres
(Assessment Report 32079)
The property was later optioned to Royal Canadian Ventures Ltd., who completed 48 kilometres of magnetic and geochemical surveys in 1969. The soil geochemistry survey revealed a large copper anomaly, 370 metres by 550 metres, with correlating silver values and an adjacent zinc anomaly. In 1971 and 1972, Noranda Exploration carried out soil sampling and magnetic surveying with emphasis on the northern part of property with the steep slope into North Barriere Lake. A significant copper anomaly was outlined containing anomalous values in zinc as well. Craigmont Mines later conducted an IP survey, which revealed an anomaly of size 1220 metres long by 122 metres wide. In 1973, an airborne magnetic and electromagnetic survey was carried out over the property and revealed two anomalies. In 1976, Kennco Explorations carried a limited soil sample survey in the area of skarn mineralization. In 1978, Essco Resources conducted electromagnetic, magnetic, and soil surveys and then drilled one diamond drill hole. From 1981 to 1986, K.E. Northcote did thin section work and re-examined some of the drill core. He also supervised a hand-trenching, blasting, and sampling program along newly constructed logging roads and carried out limited VLF-EM and magnetic surveying and soil sampling. In 1987, Mr. Ram Vallabh, along with other investors, acquired the property. Some soil sampling and geological mapping was carried out in 1987, 1994 and 2001. From 2007 to 2010, Almo Capital Corp conducted an I. P. survey over the claims and completed 33 diamond drill holes.
In 2001, a sample of quartz veins with oxidized chalcopyrite and pyrite mineralization returned 0.472 per cent copper (Assessment Report 28579).
In 2008, drill hole DDH-08-06 returned a few sections with relatively high values of silver over a depth of 15.02 metres silver values range from 5.5 to 11 grams per tonne and up to 0.532 per cent copper over a depth of 9.15 metres. The same year, DDH-08-04 returned 11.33 grams per tonne silver, 1.5367 per cent copper and 0.71 gram per tonne gold over 3.0 metres (Assessment Report 31907).
In 2009, drill hole DDH-09-25 returned 12.2 grams per tonne silver over 2.0 metres, with other samples returning up to 0.4176 per cent copper and 150 parts per billion gold (Assessment Report 31502).
In 2010, diamond drill hole DDH-08-04 intersected a mineralized section of 6.04 metres at the depth of 59.65 metres, which returned 0.901 per cent copper 10.2 grams per tonne silver and up to 0.7 gram per tonne gold. A similar section, of 8 metres, was intercepted in drill hole DDH-09-34, which was drilled 50 metres to the west of DDH-08-04. This section returned up to 0.70 per cent copper, 1.8 grams per tonne silver and 125.3 parts per billion gold (Assessment Report 32079).
