The Acorn occurrence is located near shore on Lawn Point, south of Restless Mountain.

The area is underlain by lower Bonanza volcanics (formerly mapped as Karmutsen Volcanics) which exhibit pillow lavas, amygdaloidal and massive basalt and andesite flows and breccias. The Lawnpoint Fault trace is located approximately 250 to 300 metres to the west of the old mine workings. The three shafts are on a strong orange weathering quartz-ankerite shear zone that appears to follow a west-northwest trending fault splay, trending 305 degrees, off the Lawnpoint Fault.

Disseminated pyrite is observed in the shear zone rock as very fine dusty grey grains. The shear zone displaces an argillitic sedimentary unit with a series of right lateral displacements. Very fine-grained sulphide minerals were also found in argillic alteration zones along the shear margin.

In 1986, holes 5 and 5B intersected gold values between 11.3 and 26.4 grams per tonne over 0.9 to 2.4 metres, respectively (George Cross Newsletter #11, 1986).

Work History

In 1908, Klaskino Gold Mines Ltd. is reported to have mined approximately 4.1 tonnes of “high-grade” material from the former Golden West, Eldorado and Stafford claim groups.

In 1985 and 1986, Acorn Resources completed a program of diamond drilling.

During 2009 through 2012, the area was explored as the Lawnpoint property by Homegold Resources and included programs of prospecting, geological mapping and geochemical soil sampling. Three historic adits and a shaft, likely dating to the early 1900’s or earlier, were identified along the northern shore of Side Bay.