The Center View showing of the Cole property area is underlain by a sequence of volcanic and sedimentary rocks of the Lower Jurassic Telkwa Formation of the Hazelton Group. Host rocks consist of thick-bedded purple to green lapilli tuffs and volcanic breccias dip steeply northwest and are commonly cross-cut by intermediate dikes. Black mudstone and siltstone occur in the vicinity.
The Center View showing is associated with a northwest trending system of veins that contains both northwest trending veins and north to northeast trending veins. It is an acutely branching array of veins that split, splay and horsetail. It is an acutely branching array of veins that split, splay and horsetail. The individual veins are associated with minor shears and pinch and swell from stringer-stockworks to masses up to and in excess of 3 metres width. Veins dip steep (60 degrees) to vertical. The overall mineralized vein system is traceable intermittently for in excess of 4 kilometres. Vein quartz types include massive, banded, vuggy and coxcomb quartz generally white in colour but locally beige, grey, clear, red and rarely amethystine. At least 10 discrete zones or showing have been documented and sampled over part of the 4 kilometre length. Most of the showings are low in sulphides containing less than 1 per cent pyrite, locally to 15 per cent.
Follow-up work in 1984 revealed a complex set of branching veins, stringers and breccias that includes up to 20 separate units, ranging in thickness from stringers to veins up 4 meter widths. Twenty to 100 centimetres widths are the norm. Fifty-two samples were collected for geochemical analysis, which represent chips taken across the veins. Two veins gave consistently anomalous results, both from the western portion of the showing. Most significant is a northwest trending branch that represents the most southwesterly of the known veins from the showing. Values ranged up to 1.15 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 14531). The vein pinches and swells, ranging from a stringer-stock work system to massive quartz up to 60 centimetres width. The quartz is typically fine-grained, vuggy, colloform banded, to planar banded. Local pockets of calcite and fluorite are present. The vein can be traced for 200 metres, where it becomes covered by snow. A second vein containing significant gold values is exposed about 100 metres to the northeast of the above vein. It is traceable for about 100 metres, ranges from 5 to 40 centimetres width.
In 2010, a chip-channel sample (SR-20100901) of quartz vein and breccia assayed 2.68 gram per tonne gold over 0.25 metre, while two other chip-channel samples (SR-20100924 and SR-20100934) taken from shear zones, located approximately 300 metres to the south- south west and 200 metres to the south- south east, yielded 0.16 and 2.98 grams per tonne gold with 150.6 and 2.8 grams per tonne silver over 0.45 and 1.00 metre, respectively (Monck, J.R., Gray, P.D. (2011-05-03): Technical Report on the South Rim Property).
See the Main Creek showing (093E 110) for further geological and work history details.
