The Solo occurrence is located 8 kilometres southwest of Johanson Lake and about 2 kilometres northeast of Goldway Peak. A small lake, informally named Solo Lake, is located at the headwaters of Solo Creek, less than 1 kilometre east of the occurrence. The occurrence consists of a number of veins, named the F to K veins (Assessment Report 21394).
Regionally, the area lies within the Quesnel Terrane. The region is underlain mainly by submarine basaltic and andesitic island-arc volcanics and sediments of the Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Takla Group (Assessment Report 21394). These stratified rocks have undergone regional greenschist metamorphism and are cut by ultramafic to intermediate intrusives of Late Triassic to Cretaceous age (Assessment Report 21394). The area is bounded to the west by the north-trending Findlay-Ingenika fault, which separates Stikinia from Quesnellia. The north trending Dortatelle fault occurs to the east. Related shears and faults cut the intrusive and stratified rocks. The dominant trend direction is north and subordinate shears and faults trend west (Assessment Report 21394).
Locally, the area is underlain mainly by feldspar, augite and/or hornblende phyric andesites and basalts, tuffs, lapilli tuffs, volcaniclastic siltstones, sandstones and argillites. These rocks are intruded by the Goldway stock, an Early Jurassic intrusive complex (Assessment Report 21394). The complex ranges in composition from hornblendite to granodiorite, but is predominantly fine to medium-grained diorite to quartz diorite. The volcanics and sediments at the typically sharp contact have been hornfelsed (Assessment Report 21394). Deformation consists of brittle and ductile shearing and faulting, predominantly trending northwest. Fault zones occur near the northeast and southern contact zones of the intrusive. Large en echelon tension gashes are formed within these shear zones.
Mineralization consists of gold and silver associated with minor pyrite in quartz veins and stockworks. These veins appear to be structurally controlled and trend northwest. The apparent age of mineralization is the same as the faulting, Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic (Assessment Report 21394).
The F through K veins are associated with shearing at or near the north contact of the intrusive. These veins are part of a northwest trending vein system. The distance from the southeast F vein to the northwest K vein, is approximately 1.5 kilometres along strike.
The F vein, found in 1985, is located near the southwest shore of Solo Lake (Assessment Report 14105). This white quartz vein is traceable for 400 metres. One of the best samples assayed 4.1 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 21394).
The G vein, a 2-metre-wide quartz vein, is irregularly traceable for up to 100 metres. It cuts the intrusive and hornfelsed volcanics, trending north-northwest. Pyrite is sporadically distributed throughout the length of the vein. Grab samples from this vein assayed low gold values (Assessment Report 21394).
The H vein is a north-trending quartz stockwork system cutting through both the intrusives and the hornfels. The milky white quartz contains little or no sulphides. A grab sample from the south end of this system assayed 0.62 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 21394).
The I vein is a milky white quartz vein, up to 2-metres thick and traceable for greater than 100 metres. It strikes north-northwest and dips steeply to the west. The vein contains rusty patches from the presence of pyrite. A grab sample from a rusty zone assayed 16.11 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report
The J vein is similar to the I-vein and a float sample from the vein assayed 0.70 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 21394).
The K vein is comprised of two quartz pods, which have been trenched. These milky white quartz veins are traceable for 10 metres and contain locally abundant pyrite. One of the best grab samples assayed 4.66 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 21394).
WORK HISTORY
Numerous claims were staked in this vicinity in 1946. The Goldway 1-5, 7-8 claims were recorded in the name of N.G. Kerr, of Vanderhoof. Goldway Peak Mines, Limited, was incorporated in February 1947 to acquire the property. Work during 1947 included geological mapping, the driving of a short adit, trenching, and sampling. No further work was done and the claims lapsed.
In 1945, gold bearing quartz veins were found east of Goldway Peak by members of the Geological Survey of Canada during regional mapping in June of 1945. These veins were staked in 1946 by J. Burton, J. Lawlor and C. French, and the property was known as the Bruce group. The A through E veins, were mapped, described and sampled by W. H. White for the British Columbia Department of Mines in 1947 (White, 1947 (Minister of Mines 1947, pages 105 to 108), and by D. D. Campbell for Goldway Mines in September, 1947 (unpublished)). The property was known as the "Bruce Property" at this time. Five main veins, named 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D' and 'E' veins, and several other smaller veins were stripped and sampled. The GOOD, MUCH, and PRO claims appear to have covered the same ground in 1982.
In the mid 1940s, Springer-Sturgeon Gold Mines Limited were prospecting and staked their findings as the Solo property. This work was carried out slightly to the north of the principal veins of the Goldway Peak property. Work by the company was apparently confined to stripping and sampling. It appears likely that this area was covered by the Good claim in 1982.
In March 1973 the area was restaked as MO 1-20 and optioned by San Jacinto Explorations Limited in February 1974. This was probably covered later by the PRO and FIT claims in 1982.
In 1976, all interest passed to Western International Explorations, for which D. D. Campbell wrote an updated report on the property, a1though no additional visit to the area was included.
The Vi 1 and 2 mineral claims were staked in 1979 by Clayton Powney to cover the main showings.
In 1979, C.S. Powney staked the Vi 1 and Vi 2 claims and optioned the Goldway Peak properties to Laramie Mining Corp. Additional claims were staked by Laramie Mining Corporation. Chalcopyrite, pyrite, azurite, galena, and free gold can be found in scant quantities in northwesterly striking quartz veins. Two veins in particular, the "A" and "C" veins, have known economic values of gold. A VLF-EM 16 survey, which was undertaken to determine the extension on these veins, provided little evidence in this regard. The scant mineralization within the quartz veins was not sufficient to elicit a suitable response from this technique.
Further ground was staked for Dermont Fahey in 1980 to include all the showings, A to E, with the inclusion of the Vi claims by option.
In 1982, a soil survey across Goldway Creek, below the showings was completed by Gerhart von Rosen for Dermot Fahey (Assessment Report 10809). It was determined that there was gold in the "soils" in Goldway Creek and that the most likely source was the known veins, located up-stream.
A route for potential road access onto the property was outlined by R. W. Phendler (1983) for Laramie Mining Corp. (Assessment Report 11636).
In 1984, a VLF-EM survey was completed across the main mineralized veins by R. E. Game, Laramie Mining concluded that VLF-EM results were of little use in outlining the vein structures due to the steepness of slope and the minor amount of sulphides within the veins (Assessment Report 13145).
In 1984, Laramie Mines, operator of the Vi 1 and Vi 2 claims (part of the Goldway Peak property), sampled the A-vein, both quartz and adjacent footwall and hanging walls. The values of the samples confirmed the sampling of White and Campbell (1947), and showed that values in the wall rock were consistently low (maximum value of 1.89 grams per tonne gold) (Figure 3, Assessment Report 13175).
In 1984, BP Resources staked the Goldway 1-8 claims over an area drained by gold anomalous creeks sampled during a regional geochemical program conducted in the mid 1970s. These claims were located primarly to the south of Goldway Creek and east toward Darb Creek and southeast toward Kliyul Creek. (Figure 2, Assessment Report 13697). Preliminary geological mapping and geochemical sampling was carried out. A total of 141 rock chips, 388 soils, 82 talus fines and 41 stream silt samples were collected. BP worked at Mariposite Creek (Dort 2 (094D 204)) and Red Bluffs which resulted in the location of two zones of anomalous gold in talus fines samples. both of which are associated with areas of quartz,carbonate-altered Takla Group sediments and lesser volcanics. Sampling at Mariposite Creek returned up to 3795 parts per billion gold from talus fines while up to 495 parts per billion gold was obtained from talus fines samples taken at Red Bluffs (Assessment Report 13697). A greater than 200 parts per billion gold anomaly in talus fines is approximately 400 metres wide and remains open to the east and west. This area is also associated with widespread quartz-carbonate-pyrite alteration and veining. Also see Johan (094D 137) and Mariposite (094D 202).
In 1985, Laramie Mining Corporation conducted work on the Goldway Veins consisting of further sampling of the "A" vein and prospecting and sampling in the surrounding area (Assessment Report 14105). D. J. Pawliuk mapped part of the property end discovered numerous previous1y unreported veins, including the F-vein first located on the north facing slope south of Solo (Bruce) Lake. The F vein has a strike length of 386 meters and contains sulphides at four points. Gold and silver values occur within the F vein (Assessment Report 14105). In 1985, Laramie's Goldway Peak property consisted of the following claims: Vi-1 (1948), Vi-2 (1949), Prospects (41471), And (4148), Much (4149), Pro (4150), Good (4155), Dar (4154) and FIT (4151) (see Figure 3, Assessment Report 14105). Thirty-six rock chip samples were collected from quartz veins and 4 rock chip samples were collected from vein wallrock.
In 1986, Laramie Mining conducted work on the Goldway Veins and Glacier Zone. About 140 grab and chip samples were collected from newly-discovered zones of quartz veining and a 1360 tonne bulk sample was taken from an accessible portion of the “A” vein and processed via grinding to 100 mesh. This bulk sample yielded an average grade of 4.42 grams per tonne gold, with recovery of about 97 per cent (Assessment Report 15313). Prospecting this year resulted in the discovery of the Glacier zone (094D 136), sampling of which yielded resulted in up to 25 metres of 0.96 grams per tonne gold from a 140-degree trending sheeted quartz-carb vein-set cutting iron-carbonate altered and pyritized tuffs (Assessment Report 15313). The MINFILE plot is for the A-vein (Assessment Report 21394); the Bruce occurrence, comprises the A through E veins. In August of 1989, Buster Irving of Vanderhoof, B. C., restaked the Vi 1 and 2 claims as the Buster 1 and 2 in order to cover the main A-vein, which had come open. Additional claims were staked to cover the adjacent ground, all of which were subsequently transferred to Jetta Resources. The Solo 1 to 4 mineral claims were staked by Jetta Resources over all the exsisting claims in May 28, 1990, and all previous claims are now included in the Solo Group.
In August of 1989, Buster Irving of Vanderhoof, B. C., restaked the Vi1 and 2 claims as the Buster 1 and 2 in order to cover the main A-vein, which had come open. Additional claims were staked to cover the adjacent ground, all of which were subsequently transferred to Jetta Resources. The Solo 1 to 4 mineral claims were staked by Jetta Resources over all the exsisting claims in May 28, 1990
In 1990, Jetta Resources conducted work on the M Veins and Phyllite Veins (094D 027). Work consisted of further sampling of the known vein occurrences as well as prospecting of the surrounding area. Three to four persons were on the property for twelve days. Part of the program was to re-trench and resample the A-vein. During this process, the location of the previous sampling by White and Campbell (Minister of Mines Annual Report, 1947) and Phendler (Assessment Report 11636, 13175) was attempted. Prospecting over much of the claims was undertaken, with the exception of the northern portions of Solo 1 and 3. Five new showings of either outcrop or proximal float, with gold greater than 3.4 grams per tonne were noted (Assessment Report 21394).
See Bruce for work completed by Hemlo Gold to the east and south, after 1990 and before 2012.
In 2012 and 2013, Bernie Kreft conducted programs of soil and rock sampling on his Dort claims in an effort to verify historical results arround Mariposite Creek (Johan (094D 137)) and TF zones (Assessment Report 33552, 34463). This work was completed a few kilometres southeast of Solo occurrences (F-K veins).
Refer to also to Bruce (094D 013), F Vein (094D 178) and Goldway (094D 027) for related mineral occurrence information. See Glacier (094D 136), Johan (094D 137), Glacier 2 South (094D 201) and Mariposite (094D 202) for information on other nearby mineral occurrences.
