The Bornite trend occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 2330 metres on a northeast facing slope separating Nichols Creek to the south west and Slim Creek to the north east, approximately 70 kilometres northeast of Pemberton. The Bornite anomaly was found in 2012 by Miocene Metals Inc.

The area is underlain by biotite-hornblende-quartz-diorite of the Hurley River Pluton, which is assigned to the Late Cretaceous Scuzzy Plutonic Suite of the Coast Batholith. This is near the western edge of the Miocene Bridge River Pluton.

Mineralization in the western most Bornite trend, which has an open-ended strike length of 7.5 kilometres, consists of scattered quartz-bornite-malachite ±chalcopyrite ±tetrahedrite veins and stringers up to 20 centimetres wide.

In 2012, a four grab samples (M487873, M688012, M688013 and M487879) assayed from 1.64 to 4.34 per cent copper, 0.051 to 0.445 gram per tonne gold and 25.1 to 60.8 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 33341).

In 2010, Miocene Metals Inc. optioned the property and completed 1227 line-kilometres of combined airborne magnetic and gamma ray spectrometer surveys over area. The following year, a minor rock sampling program was completed.

In 2012, Miocene Metals Inc. expanded the Mackenzie property from 36.3 square kilometres to 299.03 square kilometres, and followed the expansion with a program of geochemical sampling and a two-hole drill program. Sampling to the west led to the discovery of the Bornite trend; sampling to the north led to the discovery of the Tillworth trend, extending approximately 13 kilometres and sampling to the north east identified the Breccia trend. Together with the original discovery and Mackenzie (MINFILE 092JW 043) occurrences these define a zone of mineralization that extends approximately 12 kilometres outwards from the contact of the Miocene Bridge River Pluton. The drill program focused on the Mackenzie showing.