The Golden View occurrence is located on the northwest flank of Union Mountain about 8 kilometres southeast of the community of Atlin.
The mineralized zones occur along the contacts of two major rock types; upper Mississippian to Permian ultramafic rocks (Cache Creek Complex) and mafic volcanic rocks of the upper Mississippian to Permian Nakina Formation (Cache Creek Complex). The ultramafic rocks may be sill like and essentially coeval with the mafic volcanic flow rocks. They are composed of coarse-grained peridotites, serpentinites, and more rarely, diorites. The volcanic rocks are composed often of massive, dark grey-green "greenstone". The contacts are often characterized by shear zones, intense serpentinization and quartz-carbonate (listwanite?) alteration in the ultramafic rocks, and quartz veins. Slickensides are common.
The showing is in carbonatized harzburgite above and in the hangingwall of the Monarch Mountain thrust. Mineralization occurs in narrow, less than 20-centimetre-wide quartz veins with orientations striking northwest. Two main occurrences are called the Main Vein and North Vein. The North Vein is 12 centimetres wide and was traced for 70 metres before breaking into a network of quartz veinlets. Malachite, pyrite and chalcopyrite occur. No visible gold was seen. The Main Vein comprises two, parallel, 15-centimetre-wide quartz veins traced for 130 metres. They also disperse into quartz veinlets to the southeast. The veins contain visible gold, and minor pyrite and malachite. The small diorite plug also contains disseminated molybdenite and narrow quartz veinlets containing rosettes of molybdenite.
A sample taken across 23 centimetres analyzed 17.83 grams per tonne gold and 26.06 grams per tonne silver (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1950).
The Golden View occurrence was discovered in 1899 and received sporadic work until 1903. Prospecting in the Union Mountain area began in approximately 1912 to locate the source of placer gold found in Spruce Creek. Development work on the Golden View property, in the form of hand trenching and driving of an exploration adit, was conducted during this initial exploration period.
Trans Continental Resources staked the ground and implemented a trenching and sampling program during the 1949 to 1951 field seasons.
The area remained relatively inactive until 1970 when Rio Alto Explorations optioned the property from M. Sherman and conducted soil sampling surveys.
In 1984, Del Norte Chrome Corp. optioned the property from M. Sherman and conducted a reconnaissance geochemical and geophysical survey over the property. The following year the claims were returned to M. Sherman, despite encouraging results. In 1988, the claims were owned by M. Sherman and under option to Wind River Resources Ltd. who conducted geological, geochemical and petrologic studies. Geological mapping was conducted over the existing trenches and around the exploration adit. Approximately 52 rock chip samples were collected; six of these were selected for petrographic and mineralogical analysis.
