The Billy 19 showing is located on a ridge west of the Adam River, approximately 1.3 kilometres east-southeast of Rooney Lake.
The underlain by basalts of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation of the Vancouver Group, near the contact with Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite granodiorite. The contact runs along Adam River, 1 kilometre east of the occurrence.
The occurrence consists of disseminated chalcopyrite and bornite, accompanied by minor pyrite and magnetite in fractured massive to amygdaloidal basalts. Chlorite and epidote alteration are present near the mineralization.
In 1969, diamond drilling returned values of 0.53 per cent copper over 1.5 metres and 0.27 per cent over 3.8 metres from hole number one. Hole number two, at the same location but drilled at a different azimuth, has as its highest assay 0.41 per cent copper over 1.5 metres. A drill hole located 113 metres north of the above holes (diamond-drill hole #5) returned 0.14 per cent copper over 6 metres (Assessment Report 3795). Also at this time, a chip sample assayed 0.23 per cent copper over 6.0 metres (Assessment Report 1859, Figure 2).
Work History
In 1969, Newconex completed a program of rock, silt and soil sampling on the area as the Rooney claims. The same year, Ameda Copper Mines completed a program of soil sampling, geological mapping and a ground geophysical survey over the area immediately to the north as the CV and Plus claims. In 1972. Sayward Explorations completed a program of rocks and soil sampling, geological mapping and a ground magnetic survey. In 1988, Germa Minerals completed a program of rock and soil sampling, geological mapping and a ground electromagnetic survey. During 2002 through 2013, M. Schau completed programs of prospecting, geological mapping and rocks sampling on the area as the Puff, Oreo 1 and Krisp claims of the Kringle Consolidated property. In 2018, Crest Resources Inc. completed a program of prospecting, geochemical (rock and soil) sampling, trenching and a 24.0 line-kilometre ground electromagnetic survey on the area as the Red Metal Ridge property.
