The Debbie occurrence is located in the head waters of Mineral Creek, approximately 1.6 kilometres north of China Creek.

The area is underlain by andesitic to basaltic flows, pillowed basalts, tuff, agglomerates, cherty tuffs and chert of the Paleozoic Sicker Group. These comprise the Devonian Nitinat, Duck Lake and McLaughlin Ridge formations. The north-northeast striking Mineral Creek fault cuts the subparallel striking stratigraphy. Four mappable units include intermediate to mafic volcanics, bedded volcaniclastics, mylonite and foliated volcanics. The Yellow and adjoining Debbie properties contain two main gold zones known as the Mineral Creek and Linda zones. The Mineral Creek zone occurs within the immediate hanging wall of the east dipping Mineral Creek fault and has a 600 metre strike length. The width ranges from 46 to 61 metres. The Mineral Creek zone is 150 metres north and on strike with the old Vancouver Island Gold mine and extends onto the Yellow claims. Two styles of mineralization are present in the Mineral Creek zone: 1) gold occurs in a wide zone of cataclasis and pervasive ankerite-quartz-sericite-pyrite alteration with minor arsenopyrite in bedded volcaniclastic and aphyric basalt flow rocks adjacent to the fault and 2) gold in quartz veins with minor pyrite and arsenopyrite cutting both the alteration zone and its immediate hanging wall aphyric basalt host. The veins are considered to be possibly Tertiary in age.

Inferred reserves (geological mineral inventory or volume of mineralized rock) for the Mineral Creek zone are estimated at 99,443 tonnes grading 3.017 grams per tonne gold, and for the extension onto the Yellow claim an additional 73,960 tonnes at 3.67 grams per tonne gold are inferred (Northern Miner - December 18, 1989).

The Linda zone (Yellow), located 200 metres east of the Mineral Creek fault, is a set of quartz-clay-ankerite/calcite-minor pyrite and arsenopyrite veins with native gold. The veins, which are haloed by narrow ankerite-sericite-pyrite selvages, occur within a 600-metre northeast strike and 230 metre width. The Linda zone includes the various veins described under the old Vancouver Island Gold mine which produced 365 tonnes of ore yielding 9425 grams of gold, 1679 grams of silver and 88 kilograms of copper from 1898 to 1936. mineralized rock) for the Linda zone are estimated at 41,164 tonnes grading 9.153 grams per tonne gold (Northern Miner - December 18, 1989).

A 2-kilometre exploration tunnel was completed in March 1989. The tunnel was constructed to allow access to the Mineral Creek and Linda zones and for use as a drilling platform. The highest assay as a result of 1988 drilling in the tunnel on the Mineral Creek zone was 19.78 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 18936). Anomalous gold values were found to be associated with quartz veins in argillaceous cherts and visible gold was observed.

The three main gold-bearing quartz veins that were developed from the old workings are, from west to east, the Mac (called the Dunsmuir to the north), the Belcher and the Waterfall. The veins follow well-developed shear zones on the east side of Mineral Creek. They are lens-shaped and consist of two generations of quartz. Pyrite, arsenopyrite and minor sphalerite are disseminated in the veins and free gold has also been reported.

The Mac vein, the main working, was traced for 75 metres by several opencuts and two adits. The vein averages 0.14 metre in width, ranging from 0.07 to 0.45 metre. The vein strikes northeast in the south part and north in the north part, dipping between 40 to 55 degrees. Sixty three samples taken over the length of the vein averaged 126.5 grams per tonne gold over 15 centimetres (Assessment Report 14483).

The Belcher vein is exposed in several opencuts and one adit over 290 metres. It strikes north, dips 40 to 45 degrees and is up to 1.2 metres wide, averaging 0.20 metres. Sampling in 1973 resulted in assays from 0.1 to 9.95 grams per tonne gold and from 2.1 to 3.4 grams per tonnes silver over 1.5 metre lengths (Assessment Report 14483).

The Waterfall vein is exposed by a few trenches over 35 metres, strikes north and dips about 65 degrees east. Widths range from 0.08 to 0.75 metre. Sample values were generally low except for one which assayed 404 grams per tonne gold over 0.15 metres (Assessment

Inferred and indicated geological reserves in three zones are 471,956 tonnes grading 6.23 grams per tonne gold (Westmin Resources Ltd. 1990 Annual Report).

From 2006 through 2008, Bitterroot Resources Ltd. drilled 60 holes in the Linda area, most targeted to test the Linda Zone (Ember Vein). The vein's thickness ranges from a few centimetres to 1.3 metres and in places it splits into two or three veins. The gold grades vary from trace up to 467.0 grams per tonne gold and the highest grades are often accompanied by visible gold grains. One of the better intercepts, from MC2009-E57, returned a 4.4 metre wide vein/breccia interval of the Ember Zone averaging 75.35 grams per tonne gold, however, this grade was enhanced by two relatively narrow intervals of 0.4 metre and 0.6 metre that both assayed greater than 200 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 32204).

During drilling of the Ember vein another quartz vein (HW Zone) was intersected, approximately 30 metres in the hanging wall, averaging approximately 0.5 metre in thickness. An intersection of the HW vein in hole MC2009-E53 returned a 0.55 metre interval grading 137.5 grams per tonne gold and was noted to contain local visible gold. Another interval, possibly from the HW vein, returned high-grade silver mineralization, up to 1,170 grams per tonne silver over 0.15 metre, in hole MC2009-E35 (Assessment Report 32204).