The Dillard property is located 50 kilometres west of Peachland and 47 kilometres southeast of Merritt in south-central BC, 570 to 680 metres west of the south end of Dillard Lake, 5 kilometres southeast of the south end of Missezula Lake.
Regionally, the area is situated in the Intermontane tectonic belt in south-central British Columbia. To the west the area is underlain by the Nicola Group, a package of intermediate to mafic volcanic rocks with minor limestone and sandstone intruded by consanguineous bodies of monzonite, diorite, granodiorite and dacite. These rocks have a genetic association with tectonic activity along the Summer's Creek and Allison fault systems, which dominated the geology of the region in the Upper Triassic. To the east, these rocks are in contact with granite and granodiorite of the Upper Jurassic Osprey Lake Batholith.
Locally, the area is predominantly underlain by dark-green, blocky Nicola Group volcanic rocks. These are andesitic to basaltic flows and fragmental units that are contemporaneous with zones of diorite to granodiorite composition, considered subvolcanic feeders (Assessment Report 32558).
Work History
In 1980 and 1981, Cominco Ltd. completed a program of geological mapping, soil sampling and ground magnetic and electromagnetic surveys on the area as the Toba claims.
During 1987 through 1991, Fairfield Minerals Ltd. completed programs of prospecting, geological mapping, geochemical (rock and soil) sampling, trenching and ground geophysical surveys on the area as the Dill property.
In 2008, Almaden Minerals Ltd. completed a minor program of rock and silt sampling on the area immediately west of the occurrence as the Dill 2 claim.
On August 31, 2011, Fjordland Exploration Inc. signed an option agreement with private vendors to purchase 100 per cent interest in the 2200-hectare Dillard claims. Later that year, Fjordland completed a program of prospecting and rock sampling. A rock sample (2591133) from an outcrop of andesite hosting chalcopyrite and malachite located approximately 600 metres southeast of the plotted location of the occurrence yielded 0.211 per cent copper (Assessment Report 32558).
Ground geophysical and geological surveys completed by Fjordland Exploration Inc. in 2012, along with work compiled from previous exploration, resulted in the identification of several anomalies on its 2600-hectare Dillard copper-gold property that were ready for drilling in 2013. The 2012 geophysical surveys led to the identification of coincident copper-gold soil and induced polarization anomalies in two areas measuring approximately 2000 by 800 metres and 1500 by 1000 metres. Several new showings of copper and gold mineralization were also discovered in these recently logged areas during 2012 (V STOCKWATCH, October 18, 2012).
In 2013, Fjordland Exploration completed a 293.0 line-kilometre airborne magnetic and radiometric survey, a 45.3 line-kilometre ground magnetic and induced polarization survey and seven diamond drill holes, totalling 2636.1 metres, on the Dillard property.
In 2014, Fjordland Exploration Inc. completed a program of geological mapping, soil sampling, trenching and 14 diamond drill holes, totalling 5305.0 metres, on the Dillard property. In 2015, a program of prospecting, geological mapping and rock sampling was completed on the property.
In 2018, Rene Bernard completed a minor program of rock sampling on the area as the Man-Prime property.
