The Pen 9 showing is centred 4.8 kilometres east-southeast of the summit of Pennask Mountain and 1.75 kilometres southwest of the south end of Brenda Lake, in the headwaters of Peachland Creek.

The area is underlain by clastic sedimentary rocks and basaltic volcanic rocks of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group that have been intruded by granodioritic rocks of the Lower Jurassic Brenda stock of the Pennask Batholith.

Locally, narrow quartz veins with minor pyrite and galena cut black argillite of the Upper Triassic Stemwinder Mountain Formation (Nicola Group). Dark-grey to black limestone is locally interbedded with the argillite.

In 1991, grab samples of quartz veins containing scattered grains of pyrite and galena assayed up to 4.92 grams per tonne gold and 31.2 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 22304, page 11).

In 1994, a float sample of silica-altered argillite(?) with submassive pyrite-chalcopyrite mineralization and malachite staining, located several hundred metres north of the occurrence, yielded 1.07 grams per tonne gold, 18.7 grams per tonne silver and 2.75 per cent copper (Assessment Report 23919).

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 east.

During 1986 through 1990, Fairfield Minerals Ltd. completed prospecting in the area and subsequently staked the claims in 1990. During 1991 through 1996, Fairfield Minerals Ltd. conducted programs of prospecting, geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling and minor trenching on the area as the Pen claims.

During 2006 through 2012, Bitterroot Resources completed programs of rock, silt and soil sampling, geological mapping, trenching, 147.6 line-kilometres of ground magnetic surveys and a 66.2 line-kilometre ground induced polarization survey on the area immediately north of the occurrence as the North Brenda property.

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.