The Canim South showing is located on an unnamed creek on the south eastern shore of Canim Lake, approximately 3.6 kilometres north east of the community of Canim Lake.

The showing was discovered in 2005, with the finding of gold-bearing quartz carbonate vein float by R.D. Black. Subsequent work in 2006 led to discovery of in situ mineralization at the Black vein immediately above the mineralized float. The Black vein is exposed by shallow hand trenching near 1022 metre elevation.

The area is underlain by volcaniclastic sediments of upper Triassic-Jurassic Nicola Group consisting primarily of volcanic sandstone, finely laminated siltstone, and lesser tuff and basalt flows. Beds generally strike north with moderate to steep easterly dips. The volcaniclastic succession is cut by Late Triassic to Early Jurassic quartz monzonite, monzonite, and diorite.

Locally, gold-bearing quartz-carbonate veins and/or stockwork zones, known as the Black vein system, locally cut the sediments and may represent conjugate shearing between two northerly trending faults. The vein contains quartz, calcite and minor pyrite.

The Black vein system can be traced sporadically by outcrop, subcrop, and angular float over a minimum strike length of 200 metres.

In 2005, a grab sample across the vein, for a true width of 25 centimetres, returned 6500 parts per billion gold, 2.1 parts per million silver, and 0.42 parts per million mercury (Assessment Report 28383).

In 2007, a 5 centimetre quartz-carbonate vein, with similar attitude and on apparent strike with the Black vein, was discovered outcropping in the creek about 200 metres east. Sampling of the vein returned 428 parts per billion gold (Assessment Report 29715).

Work History

During 2005 through 2007, D. Ridley completed programs of prospecting and rock sampling on the area. In 2010 and 2011, Fjordland Exploration Inc. completed programs, including prospecting, geological mapping, soil sampling and induced polarization surveys on the as the Howard Lake property.