The JI South occurrence is located near the southwest shore of Waugh Lake and approximately 1.5 kilometres southwest of the community of Egmont.

Regionally, the area is underlain by a series of northwest-trending volcanic and sedimentary rocks comprised of basaltic volcanic rocks of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen and Quatsino formations (Vancouver Group); argillite, greywacke, wacke and conglomerate turbidites of the Lower to Middle Jurassic Bowen Island Group and volcanic and marine sedimentary rocks of the Lower Cretaceous Gambier Group, which form roof pendants that have been intruded by diorite and quartz diorite of the Jurassic to Cretaceous Coast Plutonic Complex.

Locally, a narrow, 0.08-metre wide, quartz vein with pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena and possible arsenopyrite and/or telluride is hosted in a granite.

In 2011, a rock sample (JI2011-017) from the vein assayed 0.941 gram per tonne gold, 11.1 grams per tonne silver, 0.034 per cent copper and 0.034 per cent molybdenum (Assessment Report 32991).

Work History

The area has been explored in conjunction with the nearby Wally (MINFILE 092GNW012) and Ruby (MINFILE 092GNW050) occurrences and complete exploration histories of the area can be found there.

During 2005 through 2011, Donald Bragg conducted programs of prospecting and geochemical (rock and silt) sampling on the area as the JI and Jay claims.