The Jodie occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 1420 metres on a northwest-facing slope, approximately 3 kilometres southeast of the southwest end of Peach Lake.

The area is underlain by andesites, basalts, calcareous tuffs and argillites of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group. Nicola Group rocks are intruded by the Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Spout Lake Intrusive Complex, an alkalic intrusive suite ranging in composition from pyroxenite through monzonite to syenite, and from batholithic size to small intrusive plugs, dikes and breccia bodies. Granodioritic rocks of the Triassic to Jurassic Takomkane Batholith intrude Nicola Group rocks to the east. Outliers of alkaline plateau basalts of the Miocene to Pleistocene Chilcotin Group are present in the general area.

Locally, at the Jodie zone, a fine-grained, potassium-altered monzonite to monzodiorite with local brecciation and abundant magnetite is cut by potassium feldspar-epidote-quartz fractures hosting pyrite, chalcopyrite, bornite and specularite near its contact with a hornfelsed grey-black volcanic. Minute specks of visible gold have also been reported in hand samples.

Another zone of similar mineralization, referred to as the Road Gold zone, is located approximately 300 metres north-northwest of the Jodie zone.

In 2020, two rock samples from the Jodie zone assayed 2.83 and 4.8 grams per tonne gold and up to 0.4 per cent copper, whereas samples from the Road Gold zone are reported to have yielded up to 2.5 grams per tonne gold (SRK Consulting (Canada), Inc. [2021-05-11]: Independent Technical Report for the Lac La Hache Project, Canada).

Also at this time, two drillholes (R20-01 and -02) were completed on the Road zone but were abandoned early at 70.0 and 111.9 metres, respectively, due to blocky drilling conditions. Drillhole R20-02 yielded 4.3 grams per tonne gold over 2.0 metres near the end of the hole in a heavily faulted dike (SRK Consulting (Canada), Inc. [2021-05-11]: Independent Technical Report for the Lac La Hache Project, Canada).

Work History

During 2018 through 2020, EnGold Mines Ltd. completed programs of prospecting, soil sampling, diamond drilling and a geophysical survey on the area as part of the Lac La Hache property.