The Quartz Hill and Ridge occurrences are located approximately 2 kilometres southwest of Brucejack Lake

The area is underlain by rock of the Lower Jurassic Unuk River Formation, Hazelton Group. These rocks consist of sandstone, wackes and shale overlain by lapilli tuff of andesitic composition. The Brucejack fault and associated splay faults cut the country rock in a northsouth to northwest direction. North of Brucejack Lake, the fault system is bounded on the east by rocks of the Lower Jurassic Betty Creek Formation, Hazelton Group. A variety of Jurassic horn- blende syenites and alkali feldspar syenites occur in the area.

The Quartz Hill zone consists of an area of intense pervasively potassically altered granodiorite in which local zones of quartz-sericite-pyrite alteration is developed in association with some of the larger veins containing pyrite, arsenopyrite and rare free gold.

Trenching of the Quartz Hill zone returned up to 96.6 grams per tonne gold and 46.9 grams per tonne silver over 1.0 metre in trench QHZ-3 and 75 metres along strike to the west trench QHZ-2 returned 6.3 grams per tonne gold with 9.9 grams per tonne silver over 1.0 metre (Assessment Report 22636).

The Bridge zone, located 100 to 200 metres to the east of the Quartz Hill zone, consists of quartz-sericite-pyrite altered syenodiorite in which an extensive zone of quartz stockwork and veining occurs. A chip sample from the centre of the zone returned 7.2 grams per tonne

Two other zones of mineralization, referred to as the Mammoth and Golden Acres zones, are located a short distance to the north of the Quartz Hill zone.

In 2009, three diamond drill holes were completed on the Mammoth zone yielding intercepts ranging from 1.21 grams per tonne gold and 3.0 grams per tonne silver over 57.0 metres in hole SU-13 to 5.42 grams per tonne gold and 5.8 grams per tonne silver over 4.5 metres in hole SU-14 (Ghaffari, H. (2010-09-10): Technical Report and Preliminary Assessment of the Snowfield-Brucejack Project).