The Dove 1 occurrence is located on the north side of a small hill or knoll, east of Wetfoot Lake and south of the McLeod River.

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, an oxidized shear zone in brecciated, chloritized and silicified greenstone (altered andesite?), referred to as the Hill zone, hosts anomalous gold and platinum values. Another zone of anomalous mineralization, referred to as the Lake zone, is located on the west side of Wetfoot Lake, approximately 400 metres west of the previous zone, and comprises a veined felsic intrusive.

In 1990, a sample (11784-1) from the Hill zone yielded 0.30 gram per tonne gold and 0.10 gram per tonne platinum, and a sample (WF-3) from the Lake zone assayed 0.14 gram per tonne gold, 0.04 gram per tonne platinum and 0.03 gram per tonne palladium (Assessment Report 20196).

In 1996, two rock samples (Mac 5.4A and B) of ultramafic rocks hosting minor chalcopyrite from the Mack 15-18 claims, located approximately 1.5 kilometres to the southwest, yielded 0.17 and 0.12 per cent copper, respectively (Assessment Report 24512).

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. In 1989, the property was optioned to Ezekiel and consolidated with the G-North property 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 as the Byt 1-3 and Dove 1-2 claims. In 1996, the area to the southwest of the occurrence was prospected and sampled as the Mac 15-18 claims.

In 2010, a program of prospecting, geological mapping and rock sampling was completed on the area as the Bragg property.

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.