The Sunrise showing lies 200 metres north of the Tulameen River road and 7.5 kilometres west of the town of Tulameen.

The area on the east flank of Grasshopper Mountain is underlain by various metasediments and metavolcanics of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group. These rocks strike north to northwest and dip steeply west.

A quartz vein strikes 160 to 170 degrees for 150 metres and dips 30 to 65 degrees west. The vein is conformable to the enclosing slaty and calcareous argillite and interbedded limestone. It varies from 0.03 to 1.5 metres wide and is displaced successively eastward in an en echelon manner by a series of crossfaults.

The vein is well banded. Wallrock fragments, which can comprise up to 25 per cent of the vein, are typically coated with 2 to 3 millimetres of siderite. Mineralization is sparse and consists of pyrite and chalcopyrite and a little galena, sphalerite and native gold. Gold values are erratic. Three chip samples across 0.43, 0.13 and 0.25 metre assayed 1.4, 31.9 and 3.4 grams per tonne gold respectively (Property File - M.S. Hedley, 1937, pages 9, 10). All samples analysed trace silver.

Two samples from a quartz vein with visible gold, 400 to 500 metres to the southeast, assayed 1067 and 1015 grams per tonne gold respectively (Assessment Report 17397, page 2).

Various other quartz veins outcrop to the west, between this occurrence and the Bonanza Queen occurrence (092HNE069). The veins are up to 2.4 metres wide and contain sparse pyrite, and in one instance, minor chalcopyrite. Metal values in these veins range up to trace gold, 14 grams per tonne silver and 3.5 per cent copper (Property File - M.S. Hedley, 1937, page 11).

Work History

In 2008, Discovery Ventures Inc. completed a 425 line-kilometre airborne magnetometer and electromagnetic (VLF-EM) survey on the area as the Rabbitt Mine property.