The Max NW (Northwest) occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 1150 metres on a small hill, approximately 4.5 kilometres southeast of Kalder 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 megacrystic plagioclase and hornblende phyric diorite host disseminated pyrite, quartz-pyrite stringers/veinlets, epidote-quartz-pyrite veinlets and actinolite-epidote±quartz-sulphide veinlets.

In 2007, soil sampling on a grid in the northwest portion of the Max property returned erratic high gold values of up to 580.3 parts per billion (Assessment Report 29353).

In 2011, a rock sample (1080017) yielded 0.209 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 32559).

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.

In 2010 and 2011, Teck Resources Ltd. completed programs of geochemical (rock and soil) sampling and a 47.0 line-kilometre ground magnetic survey on the area as the Cripple property.