The OLYMPIC (HILLSIDE) prospect is the easternmost prospect on the Olympic property on the south side of Carpenter Lake, situated approximately 9 kilometres northeast of Gold Bridge, B.C.
The Olympic (Hillside) No. 1 Adit Zone on the Olympic property follows a steeply dipping, southeast trending, brecciated shear zone at the faulted contact between Mississippian to Jurassic Bridge River Complex (Group) andesitic and silicic tuffs and crystalline carbonates and diorite of the Cretaceous to Tertiary Bendor pluton. Contact metamorphism has hornfelsed the sediments. Two parallel, narrow quartz-carbonate veins follow the shear and are heavily mineralized with large stibnite crystals and finely disseminated arsenopyrite and pyrrhotite. Samples assays 0.75 gram gold per tonne; a nearby trench ran 0.65 gram per tonne gold over 15 centimetres (Assessment Report 14344).
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. The No.1 Adit Zone was drifted into the hillside for 41 metes in the mid 1930s and an open cut called the Elizabeth trench was also excavated.
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 Hillside, 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).