The Sol occurrence is located south of the McLeod River and approximately 10.8 kilometres southwest of the community of McLeod Lake.

Regionally, the area is underlain by mudstone, siltstone, shale and fine clastic sedimentary rocks and basaltic volcanic rocks of the Jurassic to Triassic Takla Group which are cut by narrow bands of Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic ultramafic rocks.

Locally, a 50-metre-wide gabbro dike occurs within an andesite. Some fragments are clay altered but silicified fragments and zones are common. Disseminated sulphide content, though reduced by oxidation, is approximately 5 to 10 per cent and includes pyrite, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite.

In 1987, two channel samples (R31 and R32) from the occurrence yielded 0.20 and 0.21 per cent copper, 0.10 and 0.13 per cent chromium, 0.14 and 0.14 per cent nickel, 0.14 and 0.08 gram per tonne gold, 0.10 and 0.15 gram per tonne palladium with 0.11 and 0.12 gram per tonne platinum over 3.0 and 0.9 metres, respectively (Assessment Report 16880). Sample R31 was of deeply oxidized, badly sheared gabbro showing breccia texture with fragments up to 30 centimetres in diameter, whereas sample R32 was from a nearby 1.8-metre-wide outcrop of mineralized gabbro.

In 1989, two rock samples (349309 and 349310) of oxidized and carbonate-altered andesite and/or pyroxenite(?) with pyrite and pyrrhotite assayed 0.18 and 0.11 gram per tonne platinum with 0.42 and 0.23 per cent copper, respectively (Assessment Report 19329).

Work History

During 1981 through 1987, Ezekiel Explorations Ltd. completed programs of geological mapping, geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling and airborne and ground (magnetic and electromagnetic) geophysical surveys on the area immediately west as the GN 1-18 claims of the G North property.

In 1986, Plasway National Research Ltd staked ground east adjacent to the G-North, where data from a government geochemical survey indicated multiple element stream sediment anomalies. The property was optioned to Ezekiel and consolidated with the G-North property in 1989 and a program of geological mapping and geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling was completed. In 1990, a 124.0 line-kilometre ground magnetic and electromagnetic survey was completed on the property. Also in 1990, Plasway National completed a program of geological mapping, rock sampling and a 5.8 line-kilometre ground magnetic and electromagnetic survey on the area immediately east of the occurrence as the Byt 1-3 and Dove 1-2 claims.

In 2020 and 2021, Golden Planet Mining Corp. completed a regionally extensive program of prospecting, geological mapping, geochemical (rock, till and soil) sampling and a 4851.0-line-kilometre airborne magnetic and electromagnetic survey on the area as the Rider property.