The East Track occurrence is located north of Stokes Creek, approximately 2.4 kilometres northwest of Loon Lake.

The Cowichan uplift consists mainly of northwest trending volcanic-volcaniclastic-sedimentary rocks of the Paleozoic Sicker and Buttle Lake groups. These are bounded by younger mafic volcanics of the Vancouver Group and sediments of the Nanaimo Group. The stratigraphy is very complex with numerous intercalations and rapid lateral facies changes. The rocks are commonly schistose in the vicinity of faults with associated carbonatization and silicification.

The East Track showing is a 2 to 3 metre wide zone of quartz veining and silicification within foliated dacite of the Mississippian to Pennsylvanian Fourth Lake Formation (formerly the Cameron River Formation). Some of the veins are rusty and contain fine disseminations and blebs of pyrite. The Fourth Lake Formation, formerly the Upper part of the Myra Formation (Sicker Group), has been reassigned to the new Upper Paleozoic Buttle Lake Group. A grab sample assayed 2.3 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 16138).

Work History

In 1985, Reward Resources completed a program of geological mapping and geochemical sampling on the area as the Horne 2-4 claims. In 1986, Lode Resources explored the area as the Stokes 1-4 claims. A program of rock and soil geochemical sampling, geological mapping and a ground electromagnetic and magnetic geophysical surveys were completed.

In 2018, Lakewood Exploration Inc. completed a program of geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling on the area as the Lacy property.