The CATE showing is located about 7.5 kilometres northeast of the village of Eagle Creek, on the southwest shore of Catherine Lake. The Cate showing is postulated to be the northeast extension of the Lisa showing (092P 222), located in the southeast corner of the Iron Lake property.

Locally, the host rocks on the property include interbedded volcanic wacke, agglomerate and siltstone, overlain by porphyritic augite breccia flows of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group. Several quartz-carbonate vein breccias carry anomalous gold, arsenic and copper values.

The showing is a quartz-carbonate vein mineralized with pyrite-pyrrhotite-arsenopyrite and lesser chalcopyrite, and which appears to be associated with a feldspar porphyry dike trending 030 degrees.

In 1993, chip sample number PAP93-CR26 located on the shore of Catherine Lake, 200 metres north of the Cate showing, returned 1.32 grams per tonne gold, 0.90 per cent arsenic, and 0.02 per cent copper over 60 centimetres across a shear containing a 2 centimetre pyrrhotite-arsenopyrite vein. Re-sampling of the vein only returned 74.9 grams per tonne gold, 20.6 grams per tonne silver, greater than 1 per cent arsenic, 0.18 per cent copper, greater than 0.1 per cent cadmium and 0.02 per cent antimony (Assessment Report 23269).

In 1997, a rock sample from the showing yielded a value of 0.747 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 24952).

A grab sample from the Cate showing in 2016 assayed 31.22 grams per tonne gold and 15.17 grams per tonne silver in addition to greater than 1 per cent arsenic as well as anomalous antimony, bismuth and copper (Assessment Report 36430; Morton, J.W. (2017-04-18): NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Iron Lake Property).

The Cate trend is defined by a series of diorite-monzonite plugs and small stocks that have been traced northwest from the Cate showing over a distance of about 1.5 km. In the northwest part of the trend, mineralization consists of chalcopyrite-pyrite-pyrrhotite in narrow fracture zones, shear zones and as dissemination. Pyritic skarn, hornfels and fine-grained calc-silicate units have been noted in the area. In the southeast part of the trend (Cate showing) mineralization appears to be confined more to narrow shear zones with variable copper, gold, arsenic and zinc mineralization (Assessment Report 39870).

WORK HISTORY

The Cate showing was discovered in 1993 on the Papoose property. The area was previously staked as the Senicar claims by Imperial Metals Corporation in late 1983 following reconnaissance soil sampling which indicated highly anomalous arsenic values, along with spotty copper and gold anomalies. Reconnaissance exploration work was conducted for three years, and in 1987 and 1988, a more thorough examination and an induced polarization survey were conducted by Eastfield Resources. The Papoose claims were staked in 1993 and 1994 by David Ridley. Pioneer Metals Corporation optioned the property and initiated prospecting of the known geochemical anomalies, leading to the discovery of the Cate and other small low-grade arsenic-copper-gold occurrences near Catherine Lake. David Ridley continued detailed prospecting, soil and rock sampling of the area surrounding the Cate showing in 1996, funded by the Prospectors Assistance Program.

In 2016, the area was prospected and sampled by Eastfield Resources Ltd. as part of the Iron Lake Property. Work completed by Tech-X Resources in 2021 included an airborne EM-Mag survey, a LiDAR survey, hand trenching, rock sampling, geological mapping and petrography across several areas of the Iron Lake property, including the Cate showing (Assessment Report 39870). In 2022, Tech-X Resources and Eastfield Resources completed 48.3 line kilometres of induced polarization on their Iron Lake property, including the Cate area (Assessment Report 40980).