The Mogul occurrence is located on a northeast-facing slope near the southwest shore of Kinbasket Lake between Trident and Windy creeks, approximately 7.5 kilometres north-northeast of Trident Mountain. The Kinbasket (Timbasket; MINFILE 082M 100) occurrence is located a short distance to the north.

Regionally, the area is underlain by rocks of the Neoproterozoic Horsethief Creek Group, consisting of crystalline limestone overlain by quartzite and underlain by metamorphosed black argillite. The rocks are isoclinally folded, striking northwest and dipping approximately 50 degrees to the southwest.

The original discovery is in quartzite and quartz-mica schist in the apex of a sharp fold surrounded by crystalline limestone estimated to be 30 metres or more thick. Quartz masses roughly follow the bedding but also break across it in the fractured apex of the fold in quartzite. A length of approximately 12 metres of quartz lenses in quartzite is exposed on the northwest limb of the fold, in masses up to 1.8 metres wide. Coarsely cubic galena occurs in masses as large as 0.6 metre across. Limestone replacement by sphalerite and galena, in 8- to 10-centimetre bands, occurs in the northwest limb of the same fold (Annual Report, 1951).

In 1893, select samples from the occurrence area are reported to have yielded from 593.8 to 812.5 grams per tonne silver (Annual Report 1893-1066,1067).

Work History

The occurrence was originally discovered in the early 1890s and was covered by two Crown grants (Timbasket and Mogul [MINFILE 082M 078]), which have reverted to the Crown. In 1949, Kootenay Exploration Ltd. explored the area and completed a program of surface stripping. In 1951, Cominco Ltd. completed a program of geological mapping, prospecting and drilling on the area as the Kinbasket Property. The option was dropped later that year. In 1967, a minor program of geochemical (soil and silt) sampling was completed on the Timbasket and Mogul claims.