The exact location of the Palmey showings is not known. The Palmey group of claims apparently adjoined the Dalhousie (104A 041) and International or Mammoth (104A 044) groups to the north and the M.C. (104A 045) group to the south (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1935, page B28). The claims covered an area immediately west-northwest of the confluence of Bitter Creek with the Bear River, 14 kilometres north of Stewart.

The area is underlain by north to north-northwest striking, west dipping Jurassic Hazelton Group rocks that lie near the crumpled core of the north-northwest trending Dilworth syncline (Open File 1987-22). These rocks comprise mainly red and green volcanic agglomerates, breccias, tuffs, sandstones and slates. They belong to the Lower Jurassic Unuk River Formation (Bulletin 58; 63) or the Lower Jurassic Betty Creek Formation (Open File 1987-22). The volcanic rocks are intruded by small stocks of granodiorite (Bulletin 58; 63) and north and northwest trending quartz monzonite (or quartz diorite) and lamprophyre dikes (Assessment Report 759). Several northwest trending faults, parallel to the dikes, are conspicuous in the immediate area of the mineralization.

Three main northwest striking, southwest dipping quartz replacement zones, 0.6 to 4.6 metres wide, have been reported on the Palmey ground (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1936, page B31). Their exact locations are unknown. A northwest trending mineralized fault, about 150 metres south of Main (or Dundee) Creek, can be traced from 1219 metres elevation to the peak of Mount Shorty Stevenson, a distance of approximately 1.4 kilometres (Assessment Report 759). This fault zone is assumed to correspond to one of the earlier reported zones. Mineralization consists of sphalerite, galena, pyrite, and locally some chalcopyrite in irregular patches, blebs and seams in a quartzose gangue. The zones are hosted predominantly in tuffs and slates; at the highest elevation one zone is hosted in porphyritic granodiorite.

The eastern zone trends 308 degrees and dips 85 degrees to the southwest. It is hosted in tuffs and is mineralized over a width of 2.1 to 4.3 metres for a length of 50 metres. In 1936, a selected grab(?) sample from an opencut at 1245 metres elevation assayed 1.0 gram per tonne gold, 69.6 grams per tonne silver, 13.3 per cent lead and 6.0 per cent zinc (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1936).

The western zone is exposed between 1720 to 1768 metres elevation near the peak of Mount Shorty Stevenson. A mineralized shear zone trends 310 degrees and dips 60 degrees to the southwest. It is hosted in porphyritic granodiorite and is 1.2 to 2.1 metres wide. In 1936, a sample collected from 1727 metres elevation assayed 1.4 grams per tonne gold, 514.3 grams per tonne silver, 5.0 per cent lead and 12.7 per cent zinc across 2.1 metres (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1936).

In 2017, two 1.0-metre chip samples (A0004539 and A0004543), taken from an area of historical workings exposing siliceous volcanics with numerous quartz veins hosting variable amounts of fine-grained galena and possible sphalerite to massive coarse-grained galena, chalcopyrite and trace sphalerite, located approximately 100 metres north-northeast and at the same elevation of the plotted location of the Palmey occurrence, yielded 4.04 and 1.4 grams per tonne gold with 21.3 and 27.8 grams per tonne silver, respectively (Moose Mountain Technical Services [2020-08-01]: Summary of Exploration Work on the MC Project). A sample (A0004549) collected from an area hosting at least three major quartz veins, up to 0.3 metre wide, hosting coarse galena and trace chalcopyrite, taken approximately 270 metres northwest and upslope of the Palmey occurrence, assayed 8.72 grams per tonne gold and 78.6 grams per tonne silver, whereas two other samples (A0004532 and A004533) taken from a 75- by 20-metre gossanous zone in siliceous volcanics hosting disseminated pyrite and possible argentite or native silver, located approximately 430 metres north and moderately upslope of the Palmey occurrence yielded 1.2 and 10.5 grams per tonne gold with 1503 and 36 grams per tonne silver, respectively (Moose Mountain Technical Services [2020-08-01]: Summary of Exploration Work on the MC Project).

In 2019, two float samples (032008 and 032011) from the Palmey occurrence area are reported to have yielded 1.4 and 6.01 per cent lead, 5.36 and 17.11 per cent zinc, 212 and 100 grams per tonne silver with 5.45 and 0.65 grams per tonne gold, respectively (Moose Mountain Technical Services [2020-08-01]: Summary of Exploration Work on the MC Project).

Work History

The Palmey group, owned by Tooth and associates, was a restaking of the old H & T group. There is no record of any work on the H & T claims. During 1930-36, prospecting and opencutting was conducted on the Palmey group. In 1965, Canex Aerial Exploration Ltd. examined the Aztec group of B.G. claims and performed geological, magnetometer and soil geochemical surveys; the B.G. claims likely covered, at least in part, the Palmey ground. The Aztec group of B.G. claims was not the same Aztec group staked in the 1920s further to the north (104A 043). In 1983 and 1984, Rich Lode Gold Corporation and Tournigan Mining Explorations Ltd. carried out prospecting and geological mapping in the area. No work was reported on the showings. In 2017 and 2019, Bonanza Mining Corp. completed programs of prospecting, geochemical (rock and soil) sampling and ground geophysical (induced polarization, magnetic and gravity) surveys on the area as the MC property.