The OLYMPIC (MANNERS ZONE) is located on the south side of Carpenter Lake, approximately 9 kilometres northeast of Gold Bridge, B.C.
The Manners Zone on the Olympic Property is hosted in diorite of the Cretaceous to Tertiary Bendor pluton near the contact with Mississippian to Jurassic Bridge River Complex (Group). The Bridge River rocks consist of quartzite, chert, siltstones, andesites, rhyolites, felsic tuffs and breccias. Contact metamorphism from late felsic dikes, i.e., younger than Bendor diorite, has produced a calc-silicate garnet-bearing skarn with quartz, magnetite, chalcopyrite and molybdenite.
The Kelvin and Olympic areas saw initial development in the mid 1930s and again in the mid 1940s with underground drifting plus some drilling on the Kelvin prospect. Two short adits were reported to have been completed on the Manners skarn zone by Ben Manners in the late 1940s. Both adits are in calc-silicate rocks and garnet-magnetite-quartz skarn with small amounts of molybdenite and chalcopyrite.
In 1980, Noranda Mines Ltd. undertook geological mapping, soil geochemical sampling and magnetometer surveying in the area. A mapping, sampling and geological report on the Kelvin and Olympic prospects, including Manners, was completed by B. Price in 1982 (Assessment Report 11139). Big I Developments Ltd. conducted programs of geological mapping, grid soil geochemical sampling in the area in 1985, as well as extending southward with prospecting up Girl Creek (south of the Kelvin prospect) and up Howe (Marquis) Creek south of the Olympic prospect.
Avino Mines and Resources Ltd. acquired the Minto property to the north of Carpenter Lake and the Olympic property south of the lake in 1987, and conducted programs of soil sampling, airborne VLF-EM and magnetometer survey, trenching and diamond drilling through to 2005 (Assessment Reports 16964, 17790, 18433, 27443, 28340).
In 2022 and 2023, Endurance Gold Corp. conducted prospecting and geochemical orientation and sampling surveys on their Olympic property and on the Sanchez property to the east, as part of their Reliance Gold project. These surveys established parallel northwest trending targets across the Kelvin, Minto-Olympic and Enigma-Dauntless areas (Assessment Report 41676).
