The Shotgun occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 700 metres on a small north flowing tributary of the Lillooet River, approximately 6.5 kilometres south of Hemionus Mountain.

The area is underlain by a granodiorite and quartz diorite batholiths of the Jurassic to Cretaceous Coast Plutonic Complex.

Locally, weakly to moderately oxidized zones of quartz veining and silicification with disseminations and blebs of pyrite, chalcopyrite and chalcocite, up to 15 metres long and 3 metres wide, occur with in sheared and faulted zones hosted by granodiorites to diorites. Alteration minerals include malachite, hematite and limonite. The mineralized zones trend approximately 140 degrees and dip 70 to 80 degrees to the south. Other lithologies in the area include hornblende-diorite, aplite dikes and calcareous zones.

Samples of mineralized outcrop are reported to have yielded up to 0.77 per cent copper, 3.93 grams per tonne silver and 0.22 gram per tonne gold (Hladky, D. (2016-08-10): NI 43-101 Technical Report – Shotgun Property).

Work History

In 2015 and 2016, Ridgeline Exploration Services Inc. completed programs of prospecting, geochemical (stream sediment and soil) sampling and ground geophysical surveys on the area as the Shotgun property. In 2018, a 444.3 line-kilometre airborne magnetic survey on the area.