The BEEKEEPER showing is located on the northeast side of Tommy Lake, 60 kilometres northeast of Williams Lake and 8.5 kilometres northeast of the community of Horsefly. The Birch property is readily accessible from Williams Lake via paved highway to the community of Horsefly, from where public and local logging roads provide excellent access to much of the property area.

The property lies within the Quesnel Terrane of the Intermontane Belt underlain by Upper Triassic basalt correlative with the Nicola Group and intruded by the syenitic to dioritic Kwun stock of probable Lower Jurassic age. In the claims area, the northwest trending Kwun stock is a broadly zoned alkalic intrusive complex ranging from a syenite-monzonite core to monzonite-diorite that has intruded a section of Upper Triassic mafic and Lower Jurassic felsic volcanics and clastics.

The showing is part of the Kwun Lake (Minfile 093A 077) mineralized system. Mineralization comprises chalcopyrite, pyrite and pyrrhotite. Anomalous gold values occur in disseminations and fracture fillings, associated with pink potassium feldspar and calcite-epidote-chlorite alteration zones. A second period of mineralization characterized by cinnabar (up to 3,300,000 parts per billion mercury) with ankerite, fluorite and quartz appears to be superimposed on the chalcopyrite-gold mineralized zone. This mineralization is related to hornblende porphyry syenite dikes at the eastern margin of the Kwun stock.

WORK HISTORY

The Kwun-Swarm claims area has been investigated for gold and copper mineralization since the early 1970s, mostly in the Kwun Lake area north and northwest of the Beekeeper showing. Eastfield Resources Ltd. staked the Swarm claim to cover the Kwun property. The Beekeeper claims were part of the Kwun property until 1980. In 1981, J.W. Morton conducted soil and rock sampling over a grid area around Loon Lake on the eastern Beekeeper claims. In 1981, Imperial Metals Corp. conducted programs of soil sampling and ground magnetic and VLF-EM surveys, followed by additional VLF-EM surveys, bulldozer trenching and rock sampling in 1984 and 1985 (gold to 0.765 gram per tonne and 0.12 per cent mercury was noted on the Beekeeper claims) (Assessment Report 14599).

In 1986, the Beekeeper property was acquired by Eastfield Resources Ltd. and geologic mapping, trench re-sampling, a ground magnetometer and IP survey were completed in the trench area of Beekeeper in 1987 (Assessment Reports 15048 and 16153). Also in 1987, Lornex Mining Corp. optioned the claims and performed soil sampling and completed three drillholes (87-DDH 1, 2 and 3) in the Beekeeper area. Eastfield Resources conducted soil sampling in the Beekeeper area in 1991 before optioning to Cogema Canada Ltd. who conducted a soil sample survey totalling 1806 samples over the Beekeeper-Kwun areas. The option was discontinued and in 1995, Eastfield conducted a program of prospecting and rock sampling resulting in finding new copper-gold occurrences including one outcrop from which a value exceeding 0.2 per cent copper and 1 gram per tonne gold was obtained (see Kwun Lake occurrence, 093A 077).

Eastfield Resources completed considerable diamond drilling on the property in 1996 and 1997, mostly in the Kwun Lake prospect area and northward to the Jim Lowry Lake area.

The Birch property, which covers the Beekeeper and Kwun Lake showings, was acquired by R.M. Durfeld in 2003 and has been expanded since. In 2006, an auger soil sampling survey was completed by R.M. Durfeld (Assessment Report 28558)

In 2008, Great Bear Uranium Corp. completed a program of compiling historical trenching, drilling, geochemical and geophysical data and later that year a field program of geological mapping, prospecting and minor geochemical sampling (Assessment Report 30187).

In 2010, Mountain Gold Resources Ltd. conducted a program of prospecting, geological mapping, minor geochemical sampling and a 29 line-kilometre ground magnetic survey on the area. In 2011, Iron Tank Resources Corp. completed a 213-line kilometre airborne magnetometer survey on the area (Assessment Report 32947). Work by tenure holder R.M. Durfeld from 2014 through 2024 consisted of geological mapping, prospecting, rock and soil sampling and historical data compilation, following up on geophysical targets on the Birch property, mostly in the Kwun Lake prospect area, northwest of the Beekeeper occurrence.