Regionally the area is underlain by the Upper Triassic Nicola Group which is intruded by an Early Jurassic medium grained quartz hornblende diorite to diorite intrusion. Alteration of mafic minerals to chlorite is common in the dioritic rocks. Local concentrations of epidote, pink feldspar +/- calcite +/- magnetite are also observed. Nicola Group rocks consist of andesitic volcanic flows, tuffs and feldspar porphyries, coarse fragmentals and sedimentary rocks. The sedimentary sequence is composed of grey to white, fine grained, locally fossiliferous limestone.
At the Main showing, previous trenching has exposed Nicola Group andesitic tuffs?, flows and amygdaloidal flows intruded by quartz feldspar porphyry. There is a weak to strong iron oxide capping associated with the volcanics. The contact of the porphyry with the volcanics is sheared at 220 degrees, dipping 45 degrees northwest. Associated with this contact is a silicified zone that is mineralized with stringers and disseminations of pyrite, sphalerite, chalcopyrite and minor galena. Where oxidization is not intense the mineralization in the volcanics is mainly widely disseminated pyrite, sphalerite and chalcopyrite as well as rare stringers of the same. Mineralization within the porphyry is in the form of very widely dispersed pyrite, rare chalcopyrite and sphalerite.
The East showing is 300 hundred metres east of the Main showing and comprises pyrite, sphalerite and chalcopyrite in carbonatized and silicified volcanics.
In 1996, three diamond-drill holes were put down at the Main showing; the best intersection graded 0.10 per cent copper and 1.8 per cent zinc over a length of 5.1 metres (Assessment Report 24483).
In 2018, two rock samples (FW18-OF-001R and B0015205) of mineralized quartz vein material assayed 1.23 and 1.47 per cent copper, 0.25 and 1.77 per cent zinc and 6 grams per tonne silver each, respectively (Koffyberg, A. (2019-03-12): Technical Report on the Fairview Property).
Work History
The earliest known reference to work done in this area was in 1944, where the Fairview group of eight claims were held by Lester Starnes of Ashcroft and J.W. Oakes of Calgary. Some opencut work and diamond drilling were completed. The lowest working or pit is assumed to be the P & L showing (092INW052); about 914 metres northwest is a second pit that is assumed to be the Fairview or Main showing (this description). The Fairview property lapsed and then was restaked in 1955 by Ashdown and Winters. The B.C. Department of Mines completed a Geiger survey in 1958 but the results are unknown. In 1961, prospecting, line cutting and soil sampling was done in the area of the Main showing. In 1967, caterpillar trenching totalling 213 metres in four trenches was performed on the Main showing and supervised by M.P. Stadnyk. In 1971, Cache Creek Copper Mines Ltd. reportedly diamond drilled seven or eight holes totalling over 609 metres; some geological mapping was performed by Rio Tinto. L. Ovington restaked the area as the P & L claims in 1971. In 1972, Colt Management Ltd. contracted Kenting Earth Sciences to conduct a reconnaissance induced polarization survey consisting of two lines, 122 metres apart, totalling 3.2 kilometres. The property was optioned in 1972 to Northland Mines Ltd. and a magnetometer survey was done by M.P. Stadnyk. The claims lapsed in 1975 and were restaked as the Walla claim in the same year. The Walla claim lapsed in 1976 and the Quinto claims are a relocation of the lapsed Walla claim. In 1977, Quinto Mining Corporation completed geological mapping, geochemical and magnetometer surveying. In 1980, a geochemical and VLF-EM survey was completed. In 1983 and 1985, VLF-EM surveys were conducted. In 1996, three diamond-drill holes totalling 295 metres were put down on the Main showing by GWR Resources Inc. In late 2018 and early 2019, Golden Lion Resources Inc. completed a program of rock sampling and an airborne geophysical survey on the area as the Fairview property.
