The BILL MINER showing is located on the south side of Carpenter Lake between Girl and Truax creeks in the Bendor Range, approximately 10 kilometres northeast of Gold Bridge, B.C.
The property is underlain by ribbon chert, argillite and metavolcanic rocks of the Upper Triassic Hurley Formation of the Cadwallader Group which have been thrust over Upper Jurassic siltstone, sandstone and chert pebble conglomerate of the Jurassic to Cretaceous Relay Mountain Group. Minor quartz diorite dikes, probably related to the Cretaceous to Tertiary Bendor pluton, intrude these rocks. A meta-basalt or fine-grained diorite rock with a "sandstone-like" appearance hosts the mineralized vein of Adit #1, while the rock in Adit#2 appears to be a hydrothermally-altered equivalent.
Two adits, 140 metres apart, have been excavated on the property. Adit #1, about 30 metres long, was driven on a stibnite- bearing vein. Samples taken from the dump assayed up to 0.86 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 16282). Adit #2, 8 to 10 metres long, was driven on a zone of brecciation and ankerite alteration. A sample taken from the adit assayed 9.45 grams per tonne gold and 2.1 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 18066).
Although poorly described, sulphides in these zones probably include arsenopyrite, indicated by the highly anomalous arsenic in soil samples taken over the area.
Golden Dragon Resources and LaRonge Resources Ltd. conducted soil sampling and geological mapping over the area in 1987, extending these programs through 1988, in addition to VLF-EM and magnetometer surveys (Assessment Reports 16282, 18066). Some prospecting and rock sampling was done by D. MacDugall in 2021.
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, including Bill Miner, as part of their Reliance Gold project.