The Oscar occurrence is located on the north side of Spanish Creek at an elevation of approximately 1080 metres and 2 kilometres north west of the west end of Spanish Lake.

Regionally, the are is underlain by Upper Triassic metasedimentary rocks with some intercalated volcanics of the basal part of the Nicola Group. This sequence is overlain to the west by alkali basalt and alkali olivine basalt. The metasedimentary rocks consist of slaty to phyllitic, dark grey to black shale and siltstone and dark brown to black-weathering grey limestone and, increasing in amount up section, banded tuff, volcanic breccia and local pillow lavas.

Locally, black phyllite and/or black argillite with fine sandstone interbeds hosts quartz veins and minor pyrite mineralization with gold values. The mineralization is described as being similar to that of the main zone at the nearby Spanish Mountain (MINFILE 093A 043) occurrence.

In 2006, a sample of sub-crop containing local weathered out pyrite from under a blown down tree assayed 2.11 grams per tonne gold, while a sample of unimpressive phyllitic mudstone sub-crop, located 15 metres uphill of the previous sample, returned 0.97 gram per tonne gold (Singh, B. (2008-02-11): Technical Report on the Spanish Mountain Property).

Work History

The area has been historically explored in conjunction with the nearby Spanish Mountain (MINFILE 093A 043) occurrence and a full regional geology and exploration summary can be found there.

The occurrence was discovered in 2006 during follow-up rock sampling of a 150-metre long soil anomaly on line 101E which yielded values up to 865 parts per bullion gold (Singh, B. (2008-02-11): Technical Report on the Spanish Mountain Property).