The Grouse occurrence is located on the north side of an unnamed creek which drains into the northwest end of Tutizzi Lake, approximately 91 kilometres northwest of the community of Germansen Landing.

Regionally, the area is underlain by calc-alkaline and fine clastic sedimentary rocks of the Upper Triassic Takla Group that have been intruded by ultramafic and gabbroic to dioritic rocks of the Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Aiken Lake Intrusive Complex. Quartz monzonitic to monzogranitic intrusive rocks of the Lower Jurassic Hogem Plutonic Suite and monzodioritic to gabbroic intrusive rocks of the Mesilinka pluton are exposed to the southwest and south.

The hostrocks are plutonic rocks of the Lower Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous Hogem Plutonic Suite, which includes granite, granodiorite, syenite, hornblende diorite and amphibolite. The showing consists of minor molybdenite mineralization in a single 40-centimetre-wide quartz vein (Exploration in British Columbia 1978, page E242).

Work History

In 1970, Union Miniere Explorations and Mining Corporation Limited conducted a soil geochemical survey (248 samples) on the Grouse claims. A 1200- by 400-metre soil molybdenum geochemical anomaly, with values up to 0.017 per cent, is present on the property (Assessment Report 3267).

During 1991 through 1994, Swannell Minerals Corp. completed programs of prospecting, geological mapping, geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling, a 13.1 line-kilometre ground magnetic survey, a 22.5 line-kilometre induced polarization survey and 10 diamond drill holes, totalling 897.9 metres, the area as the Abe 1-8 claims.

In 1998, Starfield Resources Inc. completed an extensive program of geological mapping, geochemical (rocks, silt and soil) sampling, a 35.8 line-kilometre ground magnetic and a 27.2 line-kilometre induced polarization survey on the Abe 1-8 and Norm 1-4 claims.

In 2004 and 2005, Commander Resources Ltd. completed programs of prospecting and geochemical (rock and soil) sampling on the Abe property. In 2007, Geoinformatics Exploration Canada Ltd. conducted a program of geological mapping, minor geochemical (rock and silt) sampling and five diamond drill holes, totalling 1600.0 metres, on the area as part of the regionally extensive Mesilinka property, which included the Abe property.

In 2012, Commander Resources Ltd. conducted prospecting and geochemical sampling on their large Abe property which covers the Grouse showing. A total of 171 soil and 11 rock samples, as well as prospecting for approximately 8 line-kilometres covering 2.5 square kilometres, was completed in an area approximately 3 kilometres northeast of the Grouse showing, near the Welt occurrence (094C 149).

During 2018 through 2021, Commander Resources Ltd. completed further programs of geological mapping and geochemical (rock and soil) sampling on the Omineca (Abe) property.