The Pavilion mine consists of a 53-metre shaft and about 99 metres of lateral work. The mine saw limited production during the 1930s; no production statistics are available. During shaft sinking operations, an intersection assaying 68.5 grams per tonne gold over 0.9 metre was reported. In 1946, Rudson Mines Ltd. performed 579 metres of diamond drilling in four holes; vein intersections were obtained but no assay data is available. Numerous undocumented surface workings are evident. Prospecting and rock sampling was performed by Ashworth Explorations Limited between 1986-88.
The property is underlain by middle Permian to Middle(?) Jurassic Western belt rocks of the Cache Creek Complex. These consist of highly contorted chert, argillite, siltstone, lesser limestone, as well as volcaniclastic 'Pavilion Beds'. The chert and agrillite contain small quartz veinlets and lenses of massive pyrite. Early Jurassic hornblende diorite bodies also occur, and host mineralized quartz-carbonate veins. The main Fraser River fault, trending 170 degrees, is approximately 500 metres west.
The Big Slide mine (092INW036) is about 1500 metres north of the Pavilion shaft and quartz veins at the Big Slide appear to continue along strike onto the Pavilion property.
The Pavilion mine vein strikes 150 degrees and dips southwest; exposed strike length is over 60 metres. Most of the quartz veins located on the property strike from 290 to 350 degrees, vary from 0.5 to 3.5 metres in width and pinch and swell. Mineralization consists of disseminations and pods of pyrite, arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite, galena and sphalerite. Limonite and malachite staining are also evident. Rock sampling by Ashworth Explorations Limited from 1986 to 1988 yielded up to 2.02 grams per tonne gold, 1.1 per cent copper, 15 grams per tonne silver, 0.5 per cent lead and 12.6 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 18366).
A total of five adits were located that are related to the Pavilion occurrence. Adits 1-2 are 1200 metres north of the Pavilion shaft (or 750 metres southeast of the Big Slide shaft); adit 3 is 550 metres north-northeast of the Pavilion shaft; adit 4 is 600 metres west of the shaft, just above the Fraser River; and adit 5 is about 1900 metres north of the Big Slide shaft or 3500 metres north of the Pavilion shaft.
