The Highland occurrence is located on the northeastern slopes of South Forge Mountain, approximately 16 kilometres northwest of the community of Logan Lake. This is approximately 1000 metres south of the Transvaal (or Getty West) workings (MINFILE 092INW040).

The occurrence is located within the Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Guichon Creek Batholith and is underlain by Guichon variety (Highland Valley phase) quartz diorite, which has been intruded by Bethlehem phase quartz diorite porphyry dikes and stocks. West and northwest of this area these rocks have been intruded by what appears to be a Paleogene or Neogene (?) biotite quartz latite plug and associated dikes.

Locally, veins occur in fractures and joint planes in the batholithic hostrocks. Veins consist of black, sooty tourmaline, quartz and fractured wallrock mineralized with minor amounts of azurite, malachite, chrysocolla, chalcopyrite, chalcocite, hematite and magnetite.

Work History

The Highland group of claims were staked in 1891 and were at one time owned by the Bank of Montreal in Rossland, B.C. The property adjoined the Transvaal group on the south and was owned by G. Novak and J.S.C. Fraser. Between 1905 and 1907, a shallow shaft was sunk on the Highland No. 2 claim (Lot 4468). In approximately 1915 to 1917, the shaft was deepened to 23 metres; a crosscut was driven for 7 metres at the 17-metre level. In 1902, a 35-metre adit was driven on Lot 4467 (Glenora claim), 609 metres northeast of the shaft; two crosscuts were driven to the left for a distance of 4.5 metres. Several opencuts extend northwards from the adit for approximately 609 metres.

In 1995 and 1996, Getty Copper Corp. conducted a large-scale exploration program on the Getty property, which consists of Getty North (MINFILE 092INE038; historically known as the Krain deposit), Getty South (MINFILE 092INE043; historically known as the Trojan/South Seas deposit) and Getty West (MINFILE 092INW040; historically known as the Transvaal deposit). As part of this program a soil and stream sediment survey covered the area; eight diamond drill holes, totalling 2330 metres, were completed and an induced polarization and ground magnetic survey was conducted. In 2005, Getty Copper Corp. completed a program of geological mapping and an induced polarization survey, totalling 193.5 line-kilometres, on the area as part of the Getty Copper property. In 2011, a ground magnetic survey totalling 19.2 line-kilometres and an induced polarization survey totalling 23.2 line-kilometres were completed on the area.

In 2015, Peter E. Walcott & Associates Limited completed a program of inversion and 3D modelling of historical induced polarization survey data to model subsurface chargeability anomalies and a regional compilation of magnetics and gravity anomalies over the Getty property.

In 2017, Getty Copper Inc. carried out 36 line-kilometres of gravitational surveying and 79 line-kilometre of ground magnetic surveying over the Getty West and Getty North portions of the Getty property.

Please refer also to the Getty North deposit (MINFILE 092INE038) for further details and related bibliographic references.