The area of the Little Bear showing is approximately 700 metres northeast of Arthur Lake, 54 kilometres southeast of the community Vanderhoof and 113 kilometres from Prince George.

The showing is hosted in Early to Middle Jurassic Hazelton Group volcaniclastic rocks and rhyolite tuff located southeast of a Jurassic Topley intrusion granite (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 324).

Locally, coarse, maroon, volcaniclastic rocks and orange to tan rhyolite and tuff are cut by fine quartz veinlets and opaline silica veinlets with disseminated pyrite and perhaps magnetite. The showings are tenorite, chalcopyrite, malachite, azurite and chalcocite(?) in blebs. The granite shows minor propylitic alteration with chlorite replacing biotite.

Work History

Copper showings were first discovered in 2002 by Mr. Ron Bilquist and his wife during a regional prospecting program. Grab samples from angular proximal float and outcrop assayed greater than 0.5 per cent copper, with some samples greater than 1 per cent copper (Assessment Report 33932).

In early 2012, the property was acquired by Ronald John Bilquist and the following fall a prospecting program was conducted. Grab samples collected from outcrop, subcrop and float range from 0.022 to greater than 1 per cent copper and up to 8.43 per cent iron (Assessment Report 33932).

In 2020, Millbank Mining Corp. completed a program of geochemical (rock and soil) sampling on the area as the Arthur Lake property.