The Day Dawn showing is located on the eastern side of Big Silver Creek, approximately 500 metres north east of the creek’s mouth and Harrison Lake.
The area is underlain by a pelitic succession with interbedded grits and greenschists of the Cretaceous Slollicum Formation.
The Day Dawn claims were crown granted in 1901 to London and Pacific Gold Fields. At or near this time, an approximately 50 metre shaft and access adit were constructed. From 1980 to 1986, various programs of prospecting were completed by B.A. Cochrane and J.M. Logan with no anomalous results.
Locally, a quartz vein, 1.0 metre wide hosting minor pyrite, chalcopyrite, stibnite and pyrrhotite is exposed in an adit. A 3.0 metre sample across the vein assayed 3.5 parts per million gold and trace silver (Assessment Report 8490).
