The Dog occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 1100 metres on the north west trending ridge of Spanish Mountain, approximately 5.5 kilometres south east of the community of Likely.

Regionally, the area lies within the Quesnel Trough and is underlain by Upper Triassic metasedimentary rocks with some intercalated volcanics of the basal part of the Nicola Group. This sequence is overlain to the west by alkali basalt and alkali olivine basalt. The metasedimentary rocks consist of slaty to phyllitic, dark grey to black shale and siltstone and dark brown to black-weathering grey limestone and, increasing in amount up section, banded tuff, volcanic breccia and local pillow lavas.

Locally, a trench located on grid line 314N, 41+00W is cut in bedrock immediately above where placer miners were conducting a successful mining operation, recovering many large rough nuggets with quartz still attached (ca. 1986). The trench exposes a 14-metre wide, northwest striking, quartz-filled shear zone, separating massive siltstones from sheared graphitic phyllites. The siltstones contain only background (5-10 parts per billion) gold values, while the phyllites contain 100-560 parts per billion gold. The quartz vein zone does not appear to carry any more gold than the adjacent non-veined phyllites. No visible gold was observed.

In 1986, a rock sample from the trench on line 314N analysed 0.56 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 14956).

In 2006, reverse-circulation drilling on the area yielded intercepts of 0.301 gram per tonne gold over 15.24 metres in hole 06SPRC-338, 3.71 gram per tonne gold over 13.71 metres in hole 06SPRC-352 and 0.334 gram per tonne gold over 15.24 metres in hole 06SPRC-361 (Singh, B. (2008-02-11): Technical Report on the Spanish Mountain Property).

In 2007, diamond drilling, performed approximately 300 to 500 metres to the north- north east, yielded intercepts of 0.210 gram per tonne gold over 75.1 metres in hole 07-DDH-574, 0.172 gram per tonne gold over 63.0 metres in hole 07-DDH-578, 0.196 gram per tonne gold over 79.5 metres in hole 07-DDH-581, 0.165 gram per tonne gold over 28.0 metres in hole 07-DDH-585 and 0.616 gram per tonne gold over 16.5 metres in hole 07-DDH-596 (Singh, B. (2008-03-27): Corrected Technical Report on the Spanish Mountain Property).

Work History

The area has been explored in conjunction with the nearby Spanish Mountain (MINFILE 093A 043) occurrence and a full regional geology and work history summary can be found there.

In 1986, a varied program of grid establishment, fill-in soil sampling, geological mapping and sampling, excavator trenching and geochemical rock sampling was carried out in several areas on the large (520 units) Cariboo-Likely Project of Mt. Calvery Resources.

During 2005 through 2012, Skygold Ventures (Spanish Mountain Gold Ltd.) completed programs of diamond and reverse circulation drilling, rock and soil sampling and geophysical surveys on the area as apart of the Spanish Mountain property.