The Bonanza Queen prospect outcrops 400 to 600 metres northwest of the Tulameen River and 8 kilometres west of the town of Tulameen.

This occurrence is hosted in greenstone of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group, just north of the contact with clinopyroxenite of the Early Jurassic Tulameen Ultramafic Complex.

A quartz vein striking 020 degrees and dipping 70 to 90 degrees southeast has been traced up the south slope of Grasshopper Mountain for 200 metres, over a vertical elevation of 137 metres. The vein is 0.15 to 0.76 metre thick in the north and 0.25 to 1.07 metres wide in the south.

The quartz is vitreous to semicrystalline and white. About 10 per cent of the vein is comprised of pyrite and chalcopyrite, which are locally quite abundant. A sample of poorly mineralized quartz analysed trace gold, and a sample with sulphides assayed 1.4 grams per tonne gold, trace silver and 0.30 per cent copper (Property File - M.S. Hedley, 1937, page 8). A third sample yielded 45 grams per tonne gold and 175 grams per tonne silver (Geological Survey of Canada Annual Report 1887-1888, page 62A).

A shear zone, containing a series of quartz stringers in greenstone, lies 180 metres southeast of the vein. The stringers strike 020 degrees and dip 50 degrees southeast. The shear is mineralized with chalcopyrite and galena. A selected sample assayed 1.4 grams per tonne gold, 34 grams per tonne silver, 0.6 per cent copper and trace lead (Property File - M.S. Hedley, 1937, page 9).

Work History

In 2008, Discovery Ventures Inc. completed a 425 line-kilometre airborne magnetometer and electromagnetic (VLF-EM) survey on the area as the Rabbitt Mine property.