The Quen occurrence is located near the southwest shore of a small lake along Quenville Creek, approximately 2 kilometres south of Dupont Lake.

The area is underlain by augite and plagioclase porphyritic andesitic flows and red volcanic conglomerate of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group.

Locally, on the former Quen 8 claim, chalcopyrite, bornite, pyrite, native copper, molybdenite, chalcocite, malachite and azurite are hosted in andesitic flows. Approximately 350 metres southeast of the previous zone, on the former Quen 15 claim, a zone of chalcopyrite, pyrite and molybdenite mineralization is reported several hundred metres southeast of the first zone, and a zone of native copper and malachite is reported near the border of the former Quen 10 and 12 claims. Both of these zones are also hosted in andesitic flows.

Another zone of anomalous mineralization is reported approximately 1.5 kilometres east-southeast of the main Quen occurrence and comprises a volcanic hosting fractures with malachite. In 2001, two rock samples (QWR02 and QWR03) from this zone yielded 0.139 and 0.213 per cent copper (Assessment Report 26745).

Work History

During 1986 through 1988, Western Resources Technologies completed programs of prospecting, geological mapping, geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling and geophysical (induced polarization, electromagnetic and magnetometer) surveys on the area as the WRT claims.

In 2001, John Kerr completed a program of prospecting, geological mapping and geochemical (rock and soil) sampling on the area immediately east of the occurrence as the Quen 1-8 and Ville 1-8 claims.

During 2013 through 2015, Laurence Sookochoff, working on behalf of the Delormes, carried out a structural analysis and ground magnetometer surveys on the area as the Bertha property.