The Crest occurrence is exposed along a logging road in the headwaters of Trout Creek, approximately 4.8 kilometres southeast of Hidden Lake and 4.0 kilometres due south of the south end of Brenda Lake.

Regionally, the occurrence is situated at the contact between the Triassic Peachland Creek Formation (Nicola Group) to the northwest and the Lower Jurassic Pennask Batholith to the southeast.

Locally, silicified greenstone of the Peachland Creek Formation is cut by quartz veinlets and mineralized with disseminated pyrite and pyrrhotite adjacent to granodiorite of the Pennask Batholith.

In 1989, grab samples yielded up to 8.56 grams per tonne gold, 15.7 grams per tonne silver and 0.041 per cent copper (Assessment Report 19899, pages 8, 14, sample L44-R4).

In 1990, a sample (C90-R13) of selected quartz vein fragments from angular surface rubble yielded 291.9 grams per tonne gold and 1222 grams per tonne silver, whereas an outcrop sample (C90-R14) assayed 0.36 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 21058).

In 1994, sampling of trench CR94-6 yielded 8.84 grams per tonne gold over 1.0 metre (Assessment Report 23923). The following year, a 0.5- by 0.5-metre panel sample of quartz stringers and hostrock from trench CR95-7 yielded 1.92 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 24468).

In 2004, a sample (4461) of quartz vein float from the occurrence area assayed 3.22 grams per tonne gold, whereas two rock samples (4457 and 4460) from an outcrop of hornfelsed volcanics hosting quartz-pyrite veins, located approximately 500 metres to the west of the previous sample, yielded 0.145 and 0.112 gram per tonne gold, respectively (Assessment Report 27829). Also at this time, prospecting and sampling of an area, referred to as the Anomaly 3 zone and located approximately 800 metres south of the main zone, identified a 1.15- to 1.85-metre-wide quartz vein, trending 240 to 250 degrees, in a granodiorite host. A chip sample (4468) from this zone yielded 0.364 gram per tonne gold over 1.15 metres, whereas a nearby grab sample (4470) of intrusive float hosting quartz, pyrite and limonite assayed 7.02 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 27829).

In 2011, a grab sample (CR-02) of a 10- to 20-centimetre-wide quartz vein with pyrite assayed 4.1 grams per tonne gold and 10.8 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 33260).

In 2012, a grab sample (RGNB12R010) of limonitic veinlets from a silicified fine-grained rock, located approximately 200 metres to the northwest, assayed 4.15 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 33492).

In 2015, a rock sample (D-09) from a 2- to 3-centimetre-wide quartz-pyrite-hematite vein exposed in a roadcut assayed 2.59 grams per tonne gold and 7.3 grams per tonne silver (Meldrum, D. (2017-08-01): 43-101 Technical Report on the New Brenda Property).

In 2018, a rock sample (NBS2-3) from the occurrence area assayed 1.54 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 38248).

In 2019, a trench (T1), located approximately 650 metres west of the main trenched zone, exposed gossanous veins hosted by a rhyolite(?) yielding 4.2 grams per tonne gold over 4 metres and 15.4 grams per tonne gold over 1.0 metre (Assessment Report 38438).

Work History

The area was originally explored in the 1960s for copper-molybdenum mineralization similar to that of the Brenda (MINFILE 092HNE047) deposit to the northeast.

In 1966, Christina Lake Mines Ltd. completed a 16.8 line-kilometre induced polarization survey on the area immediately south of the occurrence as the Head, Moon, Sun and Tail claims.

In 1981, Esso Resources Canada Ltd. completed an 810 line-kilometre airborne magnetic and electromagnetic survey on the area.

Fairfield Minerals Ltd. prospected and sampled (silt, soil and rock) the area in during 1986 through 1994 as part of the Crest claims. A trench, measuring 158.7 metres, was also completed in 1994. In 1995, a program of geochemical (rock and soil) sampling, trenching and reconnaissance diamond drilling, totalling 258.46 metres, was completed on the Crest 6, 8 and 10 claims. In 1996, a program of prospecting, geological mapping, trenching and in-fill geochemical (rock, silt and soil) surveys was completed on the Crest claims.

In 2001, Terrace Ventures acquired the property and completed a program of prospecting and rock sampling on the area as the Peach claim. In 2004, a program of geological mapping and geochemical (rock and soil) sampling was completed on the claim.

In 2011, Killdeer Minerals completed a program of rock sampling on the area as the Katty 1 claim. In 2012, John Kreft prospected and sampled (rock and soil) the area as the Crest claims. In 2015 and 2016, further programs of prospecting and soil and rock sampling was completed on the Crest claims.

Also in 2016, Gorilla Minerals Corp. completed a soil and rock sampling program on the area as the New Brenda property. In 2018, Flow Metals Corp. completed a program of geological mapping, spectral and structural analysis and rock sampling on the New Brenda property. The following year, a program of geochemical (rock and soil) sampling, structural analysis and minor trenching was completed on the property.