The Crest 10 occurrence is located in the headwaters of Trout Creek, approximately 3.2 kilometres south of Brenda Lake.

The area is situated near the southeastern margin of a large pendant of Upper Triassic Nicola Group volcanics and sediments. The pendant is surrounded by granodiorite and quartz diorite of the Lower Jurassic Pennask Batholith.

Locally, a number of quartz veins cut argillite of the Stemwinder Mountain Formation (Nicola Group) and siliceous volcanics of the Peachland Creek Formation (Nicola Group), approximately 1 kilometre northwest of the contact with granodiorite of the Pennask Batholith. The veins are irregular, discontinuous and vary up to 30 centimetres wide. They are glassy grey to white and contain scattered grains of pyrite and a fine-grained black metallic mineral (tetrahedrite (?)).

In 1990, a grab sample (C90-R22) of a narrow pyritic quartz vein in argillite assayed 3.52 grams per tonne gold and 30.8 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 21058, page 9).

In 1994, trench CR94-2 exposed an east trending zone hosting several narrow quartz stringers yielding 4.96 grams per tonne gold over 3.9 metres, while 17 metres east along the trench exposed a zone of moderate skarning, striking approximately 100 degrees, with numerous narrow quartz veins and pods yielding from 0.29 to 8.27 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 23923).

In 1996, trench CR96-4 yielded 1.69 grams per tonne gold over 3.0 metres (Assessment Report 25043).

Work History

The area was originally explored in the 1960s for copper-molybdenum mineralization similar to that of the Brenda (MINFILE 092HNE047) deposit to the northeast.

Fairfield Minerals Ltd. prospected and sampled (silt, soil and rock) the area during 1986 through 1993 as part of the Pen and Crest claims. In 1994, a program of trenching, geological mapping and geochemical sampling was completed. In 1995, a program of geochemical (rock and soil) sampling, trenching and reconnaissance diamond drilling, totalling 258.46 metres, was completed on the Crest 6, 8 and 10 claims. In 1996, a program of prospecting, geological mapping, trenching and in-fill geochemical (rock, silt and soil) surveys was completed on the Crest claims.

In 2001, Terrace Ventures acquired the property and completed a program of prospecting and rock sampling on the area as the Peach claim. In 2004, a program of geological mapping and geochemical (rock and soil) sampling was completed on the claim.

In 2011, Killdeer Minerals completed a program of rock sampling on the area immediately east of the occurrence as the Katty 1 claim. In 2012, John Kreft prospected and sampled (rock and soil) the area as the Crest claims. In 2015 and 2016, further programs of prospecting and soil and rock sampling was completed on the Crest claims.

Also in 2016, Gorilla Minerals Corp. completed a soil and rock sampling program on the area as the New Brenda property. In 2018, Flow Metals Corp. completed a program of geological mapping, spectral and structural analysis and rock sampling on the New Brenda property. The following year, a program of geochemical (rock and soil) sampling, structural analysis and minor trenching was completed on the property.