The Crest 7-8 occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 1430 metres on a southeast-facing slope, northeast of Trout Creek and approximately 1 kilometre northeast of Crescent Lake.

The area is underlain by mudstone, siltstone and fine clastic sedimentary rocks of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group, which have been intruded by Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic granodioritic rocks of the Pennask Batholith.

Locally, narrow quartz veins host disseminated pyrite and local chalcopyrite, galena and tetrahedrite in intrusive and volcanic rocks.

In 1989, a grab sample (L46-R7) yielded 1.68 grams per tonne gold and 87.0 grams per tonne silver, whereas another sample (L47-R2), taken approximately 1.5 kilometres southwest of the previous sample, yielded 0.26 gram per tonne gold and 16.9 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 19899).

In 1996, a 0.4-metre long chip sample (C96-R29) across a carbonate-altered granodiorite with hornfelsed(?) inclusions, calcite veinlets and disseminated and fracture-controlled pyrite-chalcopyrite mineralization, located approximately 2.4 kilometres northeast of the previous zone, yielded 0.58 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 25043).

Work History

In 1966, Wingdam & Lightning Creek Mining Co. completed a program of geochemical (soil and water) sampling, ground electromagnetic and induced polarization surveys and an airborne magnetic survey on the area immediately south of the occurrence as the Babe, Bob and Earl claims.

Fairfield Minerals Ltd. prospected and sampled (silt, soil and rock) the area in during 1986 through 1994 as part of the Crest claims. 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 2010, Pan Andean Minerals Corp. completed a soil sampling program on the area west of the occurrence as the Tully 2-5 claims.

In 2011, Killdeer Minerals completed a program of rock sampling on the area as the Katty 1 claim. In 2012, a program of prospecting and soil sampling was completed. In 2015, a further program of prospecting and soil and rock sampling was completed on the Crest claims.

In 2016, Gorilla Minerals Corp. completed a soil and rock sampling program on the area. 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. In 2021, an AI remote sensing and small ground geophysical out at the New Brenda property.