The Majestic occurrence is situated on the north slope of Carpenter Creek at 1645 metres elevation above sea level, in the Slocan Mining Division. The property includes underground workings on the Majestic and Unexpected Crown grants (Lots 1405 and 2231 respectively).
The claims were Crown-granted to F.H. Bourne and C. French in 1899. Lessees work the property during the 1904-07 period and again in 1910. The owners did some work in 1912 and 1916. Small shipments of ore were reported in most of the above years and again in 1922. Development work to date included 3 adits, the lowest (No. 3) consisting of about 180 metres of drifting. The vein above No. 3 was locally stoped through No. 2 and No. 1 levels to the surface. In 1929 H.A. Turner optioned the property from Bourne and French for Coast interests. The No. 4 adit was begun and driven to 76 metres at last report.
Hallmac Mines Limited, owner of the adjacent Altoona property (082FNW015) acquired a 3 year lease on the Majestic and Unexpected from A.R. Bourne in 1980. The company name (Hallmac) was changed in February 1986 to Royal Oak Resources Ltd.
Regionally, the area lies on the western margin of the Kootenay Arc, in allochthonous rocks of the Quesnel Terrane. In the vicinity of the occurrence, the Quesnel Terrane is dominated by the Upper Triassic Slocan Group, a thick sequence of deformed and metamorphosed shale, argillite, siltstone, quartzite and minor limestone. Rocks of the Slocan Group are tightly and disharmonically folded. Early minor folds are tight to isoclinal with moderate east plunging, southeast inclined axial planes and younger folds are open, southwest plunging with subhorizontal axial planes. The sedimentary sequence has been regionally metamorphosed to lower greenschist facies.
South of the occurrence, the Slocan Group has been intruded by the Middle Jurassic Nelson intrusions which comprise at least six texturally and compositionally distinct phases ranging from diorite to lamprophyre. The most dominant phase is a medium to coarse grained potassium feldspar porphyritic granite. Several feldspar porphyritic granodiorite dikes, apparently related to the Nelson intrusions, also cut the sedimentary sequence near the occurrence (Paper 1989-5).
The property is underlain by massive to slaty argillite of the Slocan Group. The sedimentary rocks generally strike 115 degrees and dip 35 degrees northeast. The occurrence consists of a fissure vein striking 055 to 075 degrees and dipping 50 degrees southeast. The vein varies from a few centimetres up to a metre in width. An ore shoot was stoped between the No. 1 and No. 3 adits for an updip distance of 18 metres. The ore consisted of massive galena with pyrite and minor sphalerite in a quartz matrix. A total of 300 metres of drifting has been carried out on this fissure vein from at least three separate adits.
A second subparallel vein is exposed some 150 metres northwest and 15 metres below the portal of the No. 3 adit. This vein strikes 075 degrees, dips 62 degrees southeast and includes 10 to 15 centimetres of oxidized vein material carrying little sulphide mineralization.
Production from the Majestic occurrence between 1904 and 1922 yielded 452,425 grams of silver and 148,838 kilograms of lead from 221 tonnes mined.
