The Dawn 2 prospect is located approximately 3.3 kilometres north-northwest of Drybrough Peak, some 280 kilometres north of Smithers. The occurrence lies within the Omineca-Cassiar mountains at the southern end of the Toodoggone gold camp. The prospect is situated within a Mesozoic volcanic arc assemblage which lies along the eastern margin of the Intermontane Belt, a northwest- trending belt of Paleozoic to Tertiary sediments, volcanics and intrusions bounded to the east by the Omineca Belt and to the west and southwest by the Sustut and Bowser basins.

Permian Asitka Group crystalline limestones are the oldest rocks exposed in the region. They are commonly in thrust contact with Upper Triassic Takla (Stuhini) Group andesite flows and pyroclastic rocks. These Takla rocks have been intruded by plutons and other bodies of the mainly granodiorite to quartz monzonite Early Jurassic Black Lake Suite and are in turn unconformably overlain by or faulted against Lower Jurassic calcalkaline volcanics of the Toodoggone Formation, Hazelton Group.

The dominant structures in the area are steeply dipping faults which define a prominent regional northwest structural fabric trending 140 to 170 degrees. In turn, high angle northeast-striking faults (approximately 060 degrees) appear to truncate and displace northwest-striking faults. Collectively these faults form a boundary for variably rotated and tilted blocks underlain by monoclinal strata.

The Dawn 2 prospect consists of several zones of adularia- sericite type epithermal quartz-carbonate veins hosted in volcanic breccia and laminated siltstone of the Toodoggone Formation or along the contact between the Toodoggone Formation and pyroxene phyric andesite of the Takla Group. The preferred orientation of these veins is 080 to 100 degrees, 005 to 026 degrees and 135 to 165 degrees. All three orientations dip moderately to steeply south. In general, veins with the first two orientations have a surface exposure of 5 metres or less. With one exception, these veins are barren of visible sulphide mineralization but do yield anomalous gold and silver values.

The main zone consists of a series of quartz-carbonate veins in a zone 43 metres long by 5 metres wide, along a thrust fault placing Takla Group volcanics over lithologies of the Toodoggone Formation. The thrust fault strikes approximately 140 degrees and dips 80 degrees south. At the base of this zone, a 1 to 2-metre thick white to grey quartz-carbonate vein is exposed along the thrust contact for approximately 43 metres. Variable amounts of galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, pyrite and malachite mineralization occur within this vein. Sulphides total up to 25 per cent over 1 metre.

A series of chip samples were taken from a 25-metre section of the vein at the main zone. The weighted average from seven 1-metre chip samples are as follows: 62.11 grams per tonne silver, 3.9 per cent lead, greater than 1 per cent zinc and 0.0542 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 13273). Assay values from rock chips of various other veins were up to 0.795 gram per tonne gold and 81.3 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 13273).

In 2003, samples from the Dawn 2 occurrence area yielded up to 1.24 grams per tonne gold, 49.9 grams per tonne silver, 0.730 per cent copper, 0.999 per cent lead and 1.061 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 27429).

Work History

In 1980 and 1981, Serem Ltd. completed programs of geological mapping and geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling on the area as the Jock 1-5 and Itsch claims.

In 1983, Kidd Creek Mines Ltd. completed a program of prospecting, geological mapping and rock sampling on the area as the Foghorn and Leghorn claims.

In 1984, Newmont Exploration of Canada completed a program of geological mapping and geochemical (rock and soil) sampling on the area as the Dawn claim.

In 1986, Alexim Developments Corp. completed a program prospecting, geochemical (rock and silt) sampling and trenching the area as the Dawn, Shastex 1 and Paradise 2 claims.

Refer to the Pine (MINFILE 094E 016) for details of the Pine property which contained the occurrence from the late 1990s to 2014. Exploration work included programs of rock and soil sampling, geological mapping and airborne geophysical surveys.

In 2003, prospecting in the Dawn-Shastex occurrence area by Stealth Minerals Ltd., as part of their larger Pine property exploration, yielded approximately 130 rock samples. Company maps show rock sampling in the vicinity of MINFILE 094E 095 (Dawn), 140 (Shastex) and 141 (Dawn 2). Stealth verified structurally controlled zones of quartz, quartz-carbonate veins stringers and local stockwork and breccia occur and contain carbonate, barite, pyrite, sphalerite, galena and chalcopyrite, with associated gold and silver values. On Shastex Ridge, quartz and barite vein float occurs in talus over a 50 metre-wide area and can be traced for over 1 kilometre. Lead and zinc values were high in the Dawn 2 area as previously documented but are also found within several hundred metres southeast of Shastex.

During 2016 through 2018, Amarc Resources Ltd. completed programs of soil and rock sampling, geological mapping, 115.0 line-kilometres of ground induced polarization surveys and 1940.0 line-kilometres of airborne magnetic surveys on the area as the Joy property.