The Zeus (Gold Zone) occurrence is located on the north side of Wuho Creek, approximately 15 kilometres west-southwest of Cranbrook.
Regionally, the area is central to the Purcell Anticlinorium, a broad, generally north-plunging structure in southeastern British Columbia that is cored by Middle Proterozoic Purcell Supergroup rocks and flanked by Late Proterozoic Windermere Group or Paleozoic sedimentary rock. The Purcell Supergroup comprises an early synrift succession, the Aldridge Formation, and an overlying, generally shallow water post-rift or rift fill sequence that includes the Creston and Kitchener Formations and younger Purcell rocks.
The area is within a broad area between the Moyie and Perry Creek Faults that is cut by numerous north-northeast–trending faults sub-paralleling the regional faults. Some zones of isoclinal folding occur along these structures. One of the more significant faults of this north-northeast type is the Palmer Bar Fault, a west-dipping normal fault with 300 to 400 metres of movement on it. Crossing the Palmer Bar and other faults is the east-west– oriented Cranbrook Fault, a north-dipping normal fault juxtaposing Lower Creston rocks against Middle Aldridge. The core of the exploration activity has focused efforts along the Cranbrook Fault on the Bar and Zeus properties.
Locally, a quartz vein-bearing shear zone and associated footwall quartz-dolomite breccia zone hosts pyrite, sphalerite with lesser galena and chalcopyrite and trace tetrahedrite mineralization. The veins are up to 0.4 metre wide but tend to be less than 0.01 metre. The zone strikes northeast and dips steeply to the northwest with widths ranging from 6.0 to 9.5 metres.
In 2008, drill hole Z-07-4 intersected 2.0 metres yielding 1.827 grams per tonne gold, including 3.68 grams per tonne over 0.8 metre (Assessment Report 30946).
From 2005 and 2008, Ruby Red Resources Inc. conducted geologic mapping, rock and soil geochemistry, ground VLF-EM surveying, and diamond drilling (Assessment Reports 28249, 29657, 29717, 30946). In 2008, Ruby Red Resources drilled 5 holes, totalling 461.57 metres, on the Gold Zone (Assessment Report 30946).
In 2011 and 2012, PJX Resources Inc. had airborne electromagnetic and aeromagnetic surveys conducted over their Eddy North target area, part of their larger contiguous Purcell Block (Assessment Reports 32924. 33667). Some 561.8 line-kilometres of survey data were recorded and compiled over the claim group. MINFILE occurrences encompassed by the survey included Running Wolf (082FNE059), Skay (082FSE175), Aug (082FSE176), Zeus (082GSW071) and Zeus (Gold Zone) (082GSW078).
In 2012, PJX Resources Inc drilled 4 holes totalling 1093 metres, 3 in the Zeus (Gold zone) area and 1 in the Aug showing (082FSE176) area. In the Zeus (Gold zone) area, only mineralization in hole ED12-04 was considered “significant” (Assessment Report 33860). ED12-04 was located about 450 metres northeast of the Zeus (Gold Zone) showing (082GSW078). Veins were reported to host polymetallic sulphides, including sphalerite, pyrite, galena, and chalcopyrite with rare tetrahedrite. Gold content in the veins was locally in anomalous concentrations.
In 2013/2014, PJX Resources Inc began a large program of gravity and magnetic geophysical surveying to detect dense subsurface features (Assessment Report 34937); surveying continued into 2016 (Assessment Reports 34082, 34937, 35416). The gravity survey extended 10 kilometres beyond the West Basin property claim boundaries encompassing several MINFILE occurrences including the Zeus (082GSW071) and Zeus (Gold Zone) (Figure 8, Assessment Report 34082).
Refer to Zeus (082GSW071) for related geological and work history information.
