The Dill 9 occurrence outcrops along a logging road approximately 4.5 kilometres east-northeast of the south end of Dillard Lake and 9.9 kilometres east-southeast of the south end of Missezula Lake.

Regionally, the area is underlain by granitic intrusive rocks of the Middle Jurassic Osprey Lake batholith and granodioritic rocks of Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic age. To the west basaltic volcanic rocks of the Upper Triassic Nicola group are exposed.

Locally, silicified, strongly propylitized and locally clay-altered granite of the Middle Jurassic Osprey Lake batholith is cut by quartz veins and quartz-healed breccias. The quartz veins are fine grained and banded while the quartz breccia matrix is white and drusy.

In 1990, a grab sample (D90-R17) assayed 1.62 grams per tonne gold and 3.6 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 21198).

Work History

During 1987 through 1991, Fairfield Minerals Ltd. completed programs of prospecting, geological mapping, geochemical (rock and soil) sampling, trenching and ground geophysical surveys on the area as the Dill property.