The Barnacle (L.20011) occurrence is located in the headwaters of Blacksand Creek, northwest of the Zeballos River and west of Lime Creek.

The occurrence lies 3 to 5 kilometres north of the Zeballos gold camp, where narrow polymetallic quartz-calcite veins host gold and silver within or near diorite of the Eocene Catface Intrusions. The Barnacle occurrence lies 100 metres north of a hornblende diorite stock of the Upper Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite. The stock intrudes Upper Triassic Vancouver Group, Quatsino Formation limestone and Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group andesite.

Locally, a 15-centimetre-wide quartz-sulphide vein follows a 023-degree-striking, vertically dipping andesite dike that cuts the limestone. At an adit portal, located approximately 488 metres south of Barnacle occurrence, the vein is 40 centimetres wide, but it pinches to less than 5 centimetres in the adit. The vein contains specks of visible gold. Exact sulphide mineralogy is not reported.

Work History

A historical adit, likely dating to the early 1900s, is reported to have been developed on the occurrence.

In 2000, C. Warke completed a photogeological structural analysis on the area as the MG claims. In 2014, the area was prospected as the Zeballos Vancouver Island property. In 2017, the area was prospected as the Zeballos property.