This Golden Lode occurrence is located approximately 1.4 kilometres north of Trout Creek and 3.5 kilometres west of Camp Creek.

The area is underlain by coarse-grained porphyritic quartz monzonite/granodiorite of the Middle Jurassic Osprey Lake batholith, near the contact with the Early Jurassic Pennask batholith to the north.

Locally, the intrusion is cut by a west trending system of shears, 150 metres long. Mineralization is contained in two prominent shears striking 070 and 110 degrees and dipping 65 degrees north and near vertically, respectively. The shears are 1.1 to 9.0 metres wide. Some chloritization is associated with the shearing. The shear zones contain lenses and pods, up to 2 metres thick, of banded massive to semimassive manganese (pyrolusite (?)), magnetite and hematite, with lesser pyrite and chalcopyrite, oriented subparallel to small lenses and stringers of quartz within the shears.

One chip sample assayed 20.7 grams per tonne gold over 0.40 metre and a second chip sample analysed 13 grams per tonne gold over 1.8 metres (Assessment Report 17791, page 1). A third sample containing abundant magnetite yielded 12.8 grams per tonne gold and 9.3 grams per tonne silver over 1.50 metres (Assessment Report 7988, page 6, sample 5666).

In 2000, diamond drilling on the main trench area yielded intercepts including 2.07 and 6.10 grams per tonne gold, 9.69 and 23.79 grams per tonne silver with 0.36 and 0.79 per cent copper over 3.1 and 1.38 metres, respectively, in holes GL2000-2 and GL2000-3 (Kerr, J.R. (2018-04-04): Technical Report on the Kathleen Mountain Property).

In 2011, a sample (B-05) of high-grade magnetite from a dump located near the east end of the trench yielded 1.32 per cent copper, 41 grams per tonne silver and 1.857 grams per tonne gold, while a chip sample (B-08), taken in 2017 from the south wall of the east end of the trench, assayed 0.626 per cent copper, 24 grams per tonne silver and 2.69 grams per tonne gold over 1.2 metres (Kerr, J.R. (2018-04-04): Technical Report on the Kathleen Mountain Property).

Work History

The occurrence was discovered in the late 1920s and an adit and a number of trenches were excavated around this time.

During 1965 through 1970, Halpen Mining Ltd. completed programs of geochemical sampling, an induced polarization survey and limited drilling. During 1972 through 1976, several operations completed limited programs of regional mapping and geochemical sampling on the area. In 1979, Grand Trunk Resources Inc. conducted additional trenching, in addition to sampling and mapping.

During 1986 through 1990, Montebre Resources Ltd. and H. Adams completed soil, magnetometer and geological surveys on the area. During 1995 through 2000 diamond drill programs, totalling 476 metres in eleven holes, were completed.

In 2015, a limited program of geochemical sampling was completed on the area. In 2018, Vizsla Capital Corp. completed a program of 310 line-kilometre airborne geophysical survey on the area as the Kathleen Mountain property.