The Rose occurrence is located on the southern slopes of Mount Brenton and approximately 2.2 kilometres southeast of Holyoak Lake.
Regionally, the area is underlain mainly by volcanic rocks of the Middle to Upper Devonian McLaughlin Ridge Formation (Sicker Group) and by sediments of the Mississippian to Pennsylvanian Fourth Lake Formation (Buttle Lake Group). The local stratigraphy is disrupted by folding, faulting, (pre-Triassic as well as Paleogene–Neogene) and the intrusions of gabbro and diabase sills and dikes (called the Mount Hall Gabbro) that are coeval with the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation.
Most of the original rock textures and structures have been obliterated by extensive faulting, shearing and polyphase deformation, resulting in the formation of cataclastic schists. Approximately 70 metres of sericite and graphitic schists, as well as non-schistose argillite have been exposed along the north side of a road. In the rocks, a strongly developed schistosity strikes 065 degrees and dips 79 degrees north (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1965, page 268).
Work History
In 1976 and 1977, John Deighton prospected and mapped the Mildred and Nonsuch claims and surrounding area. In 1977, BHP-Utah Mines Ltd. conducted a program of geological mapping and a 2.0 line-kilometre ground electromagnetic survey on the area as the Faith claim. In 1979, Union Miniere Exploration and Mining Corp. Ltd. conducted a soil sampling program on the area as the Faith and Nonesuch claims.
In 1983, Cominco Ltd. conducted a program of geological mapping and soil sampling on the Nugget 1-2, Mildred and Nonesuch claims.
In 2007, Laramide Resources completed a regional program of geochemical sampling and airborne geophysical surveys on the area immediately west as part of the Lara property. In 2008, Westridge Resources completed a 440.3 line-kilometre airborne geophysical (magnetic and electromagnetic) survey on the area immediately southeast as part of the Fortuna property. In 2009, Treasury Metals completed a program of structural mapping and whole rock geochemical sampling on the Lara property.
In 2010 and 2011, Rock-Con Resources completed a program of prospecting and rock sampling on the Mount Sicker property.
In 2013 and 2014, Conarry Ventures Inc. conducted programs of prospecting and rock sampling on the area as the Mount Sicker property. Three grab samples (E5123783 to E512375) from the hangingwall, centre and footwall, respectively, of a 0.5-metre wide quartz vein in chloritic schist, located along a road approximately 450 metres to the west of the plotted location of the Rose occurrence, yielded values from 0.411 to 0.679 per cent copper, 4.8 to 6.9 grams per tonne silver and 0.122 to 0.551 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 34604).
Also in 2014, Treasury Metals completed a further program of structural mapping, whole rock geochemical sampling and environmental baseline studies on the Lara property. In 2018, Treasury Metals conducted an airborne LiDAR survey covering 6388.0 hectares on the Lara property.
In 2020, 911 Mining Co. conducted a program of prospecting and geochemical (rock and silt) sampling on the area as the Mount Sicker property. In 2021 and 2022, Scenc Resources Corp. completed a minor program of geological mapping, rock sampling, a 1.8 line-kilometre ground electromagnetic survey and four backpack drill holes, totalling 14.9 metres, on the Mount Sicker property. Later in 2022, Sasquatch Resources Corp. completed a program of prospecting, geological mapping, drillcore and rock sampling and a 418.2 line-kilometre airborne electromagnetic survey on the Mount Sicker property.
