The Fire (Max North) occurrence is located on the southwest face of a small hill, east of Tezzeron Creek and approximately 7.5 kilometres north-northeast of the north end of Cripple Lake.

The area is underlain by basaltic and calc-alkaline volcanic rocks of the Upper Triassic Witch Lake Formation (Takla Group), which have been intruded by Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic dioritic rocks.

Locally, a northwest-trending gossanous zone cuts a sheared and propylitic- to local albitic-altered andesite exposed by historical dozer cuts over an area of approximately 140 by 60 to 70 metres. Mineralization comprises isolated areas of silicification and/or quartz±calcite veining with hydrothermal magnetite, pyrite and malachite.

Previous work on the Fire grid area identified ankerite-quartz–altered volcanics associated with a syenitic intrusive host disseminated to massive pyrite-pyrrhotite mineralization in a shear zone.

In 2017, a 1.5- by 3.0-metre chip sample (753605) assayed 0.272 gram per tonne gold, 0.067 per cent copper and 0.020 per cent molybdenum (Assessment Report 36936).

Work History

The area has been explored in conjunction with the nearby Max (MINFILE 093K 020) occurrence and a complete exploration history can be found there.