The Red Hawk quartz vein is located southwest of Bralorne on the south side of Cadwallader Creek. In this portion of the Coast Crystalline belt, extensive splays and cross faults of the Bralorne fault system are spatially related to numerous mineral occurrences of the Bridge River mining camp.

Greenstones and andesite of the Upper Triassic Pioneer Formation, Cadwallader Group, are faulted against diorite of the Permian Bralorne Igneous Complex. The contact is intruded and crosscut by serpentinite of the President Ultramafics (correlative with the Permian and older Shulaps Ultramafic Complex) and several albitite (altered rhyolite?) dykes. Abundant lenticular quartz veins with minor calcite and ankerite occur in all rock types, except serpentinite.

The main zone of interest trends northwest for a distance of 1200 metres on to the Dan Tucker claims (092JNE166). The zone is a 2.1-metre wide, steep southwest dipping shear zone along a greenstone-diorite contact. The shear contains numerous irregular quartz veins, oriented in all directions, and minor pyrite. Associated gold values, reported by E.J. Lees in 1933, range from trace to 0.34 grams per tonne gold (Property File). Recent work has failed to locate more intense mineralization.

Work History

The first claims were staked in 1931 and taken over by Red Hawk Gold Mines Limited in 1932. Development consisted of 5 short exploratory tunnels, a number of open cuts and pits and a shaft to test the mineralization. By 1935 the property was dormant. It was re-examined in 1987 and 1988 by Armeno Resources Inc. (optioned from Trans Atlantic Resources Inc. to earn 50 per cent interest) as part of a large regional exploration program.

In 2006, Covenant Resources Ltd. examined the area as the Piebiter property. In 2007 and 2008, airborne ZTEM surveys were completed on the area. In 2009, a MMI soil sampling program was completed. In 2011, Worthington Resources Ltd. completed a 408.5 line-kilometre airborne ZTEM survey on the area as the Royalle property.