The Pogo South (Cow 12-14) occurrence is located on a southwest-facing slope, northeast of the Chemainus River and approximately 5.5 kilometres southeast of the rivers’ junction with Rheinhart Creek.

Regionally, the area is underlain by chert, siliceous argillite and siliciclastic rocks of the Mississippian to Pennsylvanian Fourth Lake Formation (Buttle Lake Group) and volcaniclastic rocks of the Middle to Upper Devonian Mclaughlin Ridge Formation (Sicker Group). These rocks are intruded by granodiorite and quartz diorite of the Early to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite and gabbroic to dioritic rocks of the Triassic Mount Hall Gabbro. Undivided sedimentary rocks of the Upper Cretaceous Nanaimo Group locally overlay the previous units.

Locally, a sheared, medium-grained chloritic gabbro with up to 5 per cent each of pyrite and chalcopyrite is reported. The shearing is orientated at 90 to 130 degrees, parallel to the dike-sediment attitude with vertical to steep northwest dips.

In 1986, grabs samples yielded up to 0.54 gram per tonne gold, 28.0 grams per tonne silver, 0.25 per cent zinc and 3.04 per cent copper (samples 1301 and 1303; Assessment Report 16097).

Work History

In 1964, E.M. Wilson of Canadian Pacific Oil and Gas Limited staked the original Pogo 1-4 claims and completed a program geological mapping, prospecting and geochemical sampling.

During 1985 through 1987, JBL Resources completed programs of geological mapping, prospecting, geochemical sampling, ground geophysical surveys and two diamond drill holes, totalling 99.5 metres, on the area as the Cow 12-16 claims.

In 2024, Fields of Gold Corp. conducted a program of geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling on the area as the C3 property.