The Nel occurrence is located on a small peninsula on the eastern shore of Bruce Lake on Nelson Island.

The area is underlain by quartz diorite of the Mesozoic Coast Plutonic Complex in contact with Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group) basalt.

Locally, extensive magnetite-garnet skarn is developed at or near the intrusive contact within the volcanic rocks. Diamond drilling intersected altered volcanics with patchy iron skarn development and a more massive magnetite-pyrite body.

Work History

In 1961, Western Ferric Ores Ltd. conducted a program of geological mapping, a ground magnetometer survey and two diamond drill holes, totalling approximately 61 metres, on the area as the Nel group of claims. A drillcore sample from the magnetite body assayed 54.46 per cent iron and 0.13 per cent copper over 4.9 metres (Assessment Report 358).

In 1977, J. Elwell conducted a soil sampling program on the area immediately southeast as the Saskatchewan claim of the Province claim group.