The Gesel 8 occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 1100 metres on a west-facing slope, east of Guichon Creek and approximately 2.3 kilometres west of Danish Lake.

The area is underlain by undivided volcanic rocks of the Upper Triassic (Western Volcanic Facies) Nicola Group, immediately east of their contact with the Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Guichon Creek batholith.

Locally, a silicified shear zone, striking north and dipping east 35 degrees, hosts quartz veins, up to 1-metre wide, on the hangingwall of the shear with blebs and patches of sphalerite, chalcopyrite and pyrite. The shear zone is hosted in limonite-stained basalts and andesites.

Samples from the zone are reported to have yielded up to 15 per cent zinc, 2 per cent lead, 1 per cent copper with associated silver and gold values (Property File 9969).

A zone of molybdenite mineralization is reported on the Gesel 37 and 38 claims, located approximately 3.5 kilometres to the east of the previous zone.

Work History

A historical trench and small adit, of unknown age, are reported on the occurrence.

During the 1960s and 1970s, the area was held by Ernie Gavelin as the Gesel claims. Programs of trenching and drilling were reported to have been completed during this time.