The Aduf showing area is largely underlain by a northwest trending, moderately southwest dipping sequence of andesitic volcaniclastic rocks and siltstones of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group. Some massive, well-indurated andesitic flows, flow breccias and agglomerates (Nicola Group) also occur. The Nicola rocks are cut by Tertiary? porphyritic rhyolitic dikes, sills and plugs that are possibly related to the Kamloops Group.
Anomalous gold values (85 to 3500 ppb) are localized in and about some of the smaller north-northwesterly trending porphyry rhyolite dikes that cut the andesitic volcaniclastics and related siltstones. In these areas of anomalous gold, the rhyolitic rocks are quartz-sericite altered and country rocks are strongly altered to an assemblage of carbonate (ankerite and calcite), quartz, with sericite near the dike contacts and grading to chlorite further away. Outside of this zone, calcite, chlorite and locally epidote are predominant as a propylitic halo. As much as 5 per cent disseminated pyrite occurs in the altered rhyolite dike rock and adjacent carbonate altered andesitic volcaniclastic. Limonite after pyrite occurs as films on some fractures and as seams and blebs associated with quartz-calcite veins, and opaline silica veins. A rock sample (K-32) was taken from an altered zone that is up to 200 metres long and 75 metres wide and correlates with a 20-metre-wide rhyolite dike trending north-northwest. The sample assayed 3.5 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 13877).
Work History
In 1984, geological mapping and rock chip sampling (73) was completed on the Aduf claims on behalf of AVF Minerals Ltd. In 1986, the DC claims were staked and cover the Aduf property and in 1987 Mercator Resources Corporation conducted preliminary geological mapping.
In 2019, D. Pollard staked the area completed a program of minor rock sampling. Two samples of quartz-feldspar porphyry are reported to have assayed 10.11 and 11.52 grams per tonne gold with up to 1.71 grams per tonne palladium (Healex Consulting Ltd. [2021-04-12]: Brussels Creek Gold-Copper-Palladium Project, Kamloops Mining District, British Columbia, NI 43-101 Technical Report). The exact location of these samples was not reported.
In 2020, Syber Mining Corp. and Le Mare Gold Corp. completed a minor program of prospecting and geological mapping and an airborne magnetometer survey on the area as the Brussels Creek project. A sample (BC015) assayed 1.665 grams per tonne gold (Healex Consulting Ltd. [2021-04-12]: Brussels Creek Gold-Copper-Palladium Project, Kamloops Mining District, British Columbia, NI 43-101 Technical Report).
