The Tuk occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 1440 metres on a southeast-facing slope, approximately 4.8 kilometres northeast of the creeks’ confluence with Rampart Creek and 24 kilometres north-northeast of Princeton.

The area along Summers Creek is underlain by the Eastern volcanic facies of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group, comprising mafic, augite and hornblende porphyritic pyroclastics and flows, and associated alkaline intrusions. These rocks are intruded by granodiorite and quartz diorite of the Middle to Upper Cretaceous Summers Creek pluton.

Locally, chalcopyrite occurs along fractures in quartz diorite of the Middle to Upper Cretaceous Summers Creek pluton.

In 1981, a sample (RX 33027) assayed 0.005 per cent copper, 0.005 gram per tonne gold and 0.04 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 10503, Sheet 1, Figure 2).

Work History

In 1975, Copper Lake Explorations Ltd. prospected and sampled the area as the Tuk claim. During 1976 through 1979, Consolidated Kalco Valley Mines Ltd. completed programs of soil sampling, trenching and five percussion drillholes, totalling 255.0 metres, on the area immediately northwest of the occurrence as the Muf claim.

In 1981 and 1982, Canadian Nickel Company Ltd. completed programs of geological mapping, geochemical (rock, silt and soil) surveys and ground magnetic and electromagnetic surveys on the area as the Rita 1-4 claims.

Fairfield Minerals Ltd. re-staked the area in 1987 as the Swan 1-5 claims after finding anomalous gold in stream silts at the mouth of Swanson Creek. In 1989 and 1990, the company completed programs of prospecting and geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling in the area for vein-hosted gold deposits. During 1991 through 1995, further programs of trenching and geochemical (rock and soil) sampling were completed on the claims.

In 2018, John Billingsley completed a minor program of prospecting and rock sampling on the area as the Rita property.