The Fish Lake occurrence is located approximately 500 metres south-southeast of the southernmost point of Fish Lake, 23 kilometres north-northwest of the community Vanderhoof and 24 kilometres south-southeast of Fort St. James.

The area is underlain by Jurassic Cache Creek Group sediments and greenstone. There is sparse quartzite, hornfels and serpentinite outcrops along the area.

Locally, trenching has revealed carbonate-altered and sheared andesitic volcanics, quartzite and graphitic sediments and one late hornblende porphyry dike. Additional work revealed a coincidental self-potential anomaly and gold soil anomalies near quartz-carbonate–altered boulders.

Work History

In 1982, Murray Morrison carried out a ground magnetic survey on the Fish Lake claim and reported boulders with quartz carbonate alteration. The claim was staked by R.B. Campbell in 1984; preliminary work done that same year included prospecting and running 12.5-kilometre hip-chain grid lines.

In 1986, 19 soil samples were collected and a 1.8-kilometre self-potential survey was conducted. Of the 19 soil samples, only one was considered anomalous and is likely the from the quartz carbonate–altered boulders near the self-potential anomaly.

The following year, in 1987, 38 rock chip samples were taken from excavator trenches. The rock samples were taken every 2 metres and were analyzed for gold; one was found to be anomalous, yielding 1.46 grams per tonne of gold (Sample 13782; Assessment Report 18072).

From 2017 to 2019, S. Ebert conducted soil and rock geochemical surveys and a ground magnetic and VLF-EM survey. The 288 soil samples yielded arsenic values of up to 99.6 parts per million and were located around the south Eco anomaly (Sample 5679058; Assessment Report 37941). Of eight rock samples collected, six were from till boulders and two were from outcrops. Sample 5678322 assayed 0.026 grams per tonne of gold (Assessment Report 37941).