The Miss prospect outcrops above the steep west slope of the Summers Creek valley, 800 to 1000 metres west of the creek and 24 kilometres north of Princeton.

This area along Summers Creek is underlain by the Eastern volcanic facies of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group, comprising mafic, augite and hornblende porphyritic pyroclastics and flows, and associated alkaline intrusions.

The occurrence is hosted in a north-trending sequence of plagioclase porphyritic andesitic flows, tuffs and agglomerates, dipping approximately 30 degrees east. The volcanics appear to be intruded by a narrow, rusty-weathering body of leucocratic quartz porphyry, trending north-northeast for 3.5 kilometres and varying up to 800 metres wide (Bulletin 69; Assessment Report 22084). Detailed mapping and diamond drilling initially suggested this unit might be the product of the strong alteration and locally intense shearing of Nicola Group volcanics in a porphyry hydrothermal environment (Assessment Report 17243). Additional mapping and petrographic work suggests that it is a highly altered and mylonitized granodiorite/quartz diorite (Assessment Report 22084). Lenses and belts of relatively fresh diorite are associated with the quartz porphyry. Petrographic and x-ray diffraction studies indicate it contains abundant quartz and illite, with minor kaolinite, chlorite, plagioclase and trace calcite and orthoclase (Assessment Report 13755). Sericite is also reported. This alteration has been intersected in drilling to depths up to 300 metres. The eastern contact of the quartz porphyry with Nicola Group andesites is strongly sheared. This shearing coincides with the north-northeast-striking Missezula Mountain fault, a structure associated with the north-striking Summers Creek fault system to the east.

The quartz porphyry is mineralized with 1 to 5 per cent disseminated pyrite and occasional, minor chalcopyrite in quartz veinlets. A stockwork of quartz siderite veins and veinlets has been traced for 350 metres in weakly silica- and epidote-altered volcanics along the eastern sheared margin of the quartz porphyry. The stockwork is 50 metres wide and continues to a depth of at least 100 metres. The quartz-siderite veins and veinlets are mineralized with pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena, sphalerite and argentite. Minor amounts of chalcopyrite and pyrite are also found in short north-northeast–striking shears, in association with carbonate, chlorite and epidote. The stockwork is disrupted by post-mineral faults.

In 1981, a sample (RX42724) with siderite, pyrite and galena from the occurrence area assayed 0.075 gram per tonne gold, 8.1 grams per tonne silver and 0.052 per cent copper, whereas a sample (RX42722), taken west of a small wetland area and approximately 500 metres west-northwest of the main Miss occurrence, yielded 0.385 per cent copper and 3.3 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 10437). The following year, a rock sample (RX042199) of altered and sheared basalt hosting small quartz veins with chalcopyrite, pyrite and malachite, also taken from the area west of the small wetland area sampled the previous year, yielded 0.328 per cent copper and 0.148 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 10962).

In 1984, a rock sample (RX38923) of mineralized quartz-siderite veinlets from the main occurrence area yielded 0.050 gram per tonne gold, 3.0 grams per tonne silver, 0.046 per cent copper, 0.277 per cent lead and 0.715 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 13755).

In 1987, an angled drillhole (72412) assayed 0.785 gram per tonne gold, 14.9 grams per tonne silver, 0.03 per cent copper, 0.05 per cent lead and 0.17 per cent zinc over 1.22 metres (47.85 to 49.07 metres down hole), whereas a second section of core from the same hole graded 0.049 gram per tonne gold, 5.8 grams per tonne silver, 0.9 per cent copper, 0.06 per cent lead and 0.8 per cent zinc over 2.05 metres (132.8 to 134.85 metres; Assessment Report 17243).

In 1991, three trenches (91-23, -24 and -25), located south of hole 72412, exposed at least four north-trending, steeply east-dipping banded sulphide (galena and sphalerite with minor chalcopyrite and pyrite) veins or vein structures, up to 1.5 metres wide, in a diorite. Chip samples (12529 and 12534) from trenches 91-25B and 91-24C yielded 1.66 and 1.46 grams per tonne gold, 19.7 and 30.7 grams per tonne silver with 0.743 and 1.670 per cent lead over 0.30 and 0.25 metre, respectively, while a grab sample (1231) over 4 metres from trench 91-25B yielded 0.147 per cent copper, 0.956 per cent lead, 74.9 grams per tonne silver and 1.050 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 22084, Figure 13). Also at this time, two samples (5842 and 5844) of shear-related quartz veins with pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena and malachite, located on a steep east-facing slope approximately 500 and 800 metres north-northeast of the main zone, yielded 0.507 and 0.459 per cent copper, 16.0 and 6.0 grams per tonne silver and 0.070 and 0.220 gram per tonne gold, respectively (Assessment Report 22084, Figure 5b).

In 2018, a grab sample (662311) from the vein yielded 9.96 grams per tonne gold, 10.4 grams per tonne silver, 0.500 per cent lead and 0.301 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 37685).

Work History

During 1981 through 1984, Canadian Nickel Co. Ltd. completed programs of prospecting, geological mapping, geochemical (rock and soil) sampling and ground geophysical surveys on the area as the Hit 1-4 and Miss 1-2 claims. The property was subsequently optioned to First Western Platinum Corporation, which drilled three holes, totalling 559 metres, in 1987.

Vanco Explorations Ltd. conducted minor prospecting in 1990, followed by further prospecting, trenching and geophysical and geological surveying in 1991 on the Hit/Miss property.

On August 21, 2001, Adam Travis staked six two-post claims over the occurrence. In June 2002, Cassidy Gold Corp. concluded an option agreement to acquire the property. Cassidy was unable to raise funds for exploration and the property was returned to Travis in 2003. In 2006, Amaryllis Ventures Ltd. completed a minor geochemical sampling program on the claims.

In 2007, Avanti Mining Inc. contracted Peter E. Walcott & Associates Ltd. to establish a property-wide grid and complete an induced polarization and soil sampling program. Results from the induced polarization survey outlined the presence of three chargeability zones, all of which were open. The soil survey confirmed the location of previously exposed base and precious metal mineralization and also partially outlined a possible north-trending zone along the western claim boundary of the HIT 2 (south) claim (Assessment Report 29781).

In 2011, Colorado Resources Ltd. completed a program of geochemical sampling and 4380 metres of trenching on the Hit property. During 2012 through 2015, Colorado Resources Ltd. completed programs of geological mapping, geochemical (rock and soil) sampling and a 6.0 line-kilometre induced polarization survey on the area as the Hit-Aspen Grove property. In 2017 and 2018, Colorado Resources Ltd. completed further programs of rock sampling and a historic induced polarization processing and inversion on the area as the Hit property.