A limestone bed, about a metre wide, strikes northwest and dips steeply south within cherty argillites of the Mississippian to Jurassic Bridge River Complex (Group). The limestone is altered to an epidote-garnet skarn with pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite mineralization, near the contact with granodiorite or quartz diorite of the Cretaceous to Tertiary Bendor pluton. Fine seams of calcite and quartz within the argillites are also sparingly mineralized with pyrrhotite. Trace gold assays are reported. Diopside and wollastonite also occur as alteration products in the limestone. The limestone bed is itself of high quality and extends to the south where an outcrop near Piebiter Creek was analysed (refer to 092JNE121).

Work History

The Bramoose occurrence was first reported in 1933.

In 1987, Trans Atlantic and Armeno Resources Inc. completed a program of geochemical sampling, ground electromagnetic and magnetic surveys on the area.

In 2006, Covenant Resources Ltd. examined the area as the Piebiter property. In 2007 and 2008, airborne ZTEM surveys were completed on the area. In 2009, a MMI soil sampling program was completed. In 2011, Worthington Resources Ltd. completed a 408.5 line-kilometre airborne ZTEM survey on the area as the Royalle property.