The Bap occurrence is located on the north side of Baptiste Creek, approximately 4.3 kilometres west-northwest of the creeks’ mouth on the Middle River.

Regionally, the area is underlain by serpentinite ultramafic rocks of the Trembleur Ultramafic Unit and greenschist metamorphic rocks of the Ruby Rock Igneous Complex, both of the Lower Permian to Upper Triassic Cache Creek Complex.

Locally, a major shear zone cuts a large body of serpentinite, peridotite and dunite, which have been silicified and carbonate altered.

Work History

In the early 1940s, a sample from an outcrop of quartz-carbonate-mariposite from the area is reported to have assayed 1.2 grams per tonne gold (GSC Memoir 252).

In 1983, Aume Resources Ltd. completed a program of rock, silt and soil sampling on the area as the Bap claim. A rock sample (BR-BA-1) of altered serpentinite assayed 1.40 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 11879).

In 1990, Noranda Exploration prospected the area as the BC claim.