The Crystal Marie occurrence is located south of Triangle Lake, approximately 55 kilometres southwest of the community of Vanderhoof.

The area is underlain by Late Jurassic quartz monzonite and allied intrusives of the Endako batholith. To the northeast, a west-northwest trending fault separates Eocene to felsic volcanic rocks of the Ootsa Lake Formation.

Locally, a brownish granite hosting veins or lenses of oxidized and honeycombed quartz is exposed in a road cut. Mineralization consists of chalcopyrite occurring as disseminations, veins and shallow lenses.

Work History

The showing was originally discovered in 1999 by Mr. Kencayd. In 2007 and 2008, a program of prospecting and sampling was completed. During 2009 through 2013, F. Critchlow of Kootenay Gold Inc. acquired the property and subsequently completed programs of rock geochemistry and prospecting. Sampling of vein material returned up to 25.3 grams per tonne gold and 0.6 per cent copper (Assessment Report 30909).

In 2017, Glen Prior completed a small rock geochemical survey on the property containing the occurrence. Highlighted assays included sample 17AN2001, which graded 3.46 grams per tonne gold and 0.9 grams per tonne silver, and sample 17AN2003, which graded 1.5 grams per tonne silver and 0.17 per cent copper (Assessment Report 37441).

In 2018, Ascot Gold Ridge Ltd. completed a soil geochemical survey on an area approximately 500 metres to the northeast of the occurrence. The survey identified slightly anomalous values, suggesting the extension of the strike zone of the occurrence.

In the same year, Andrew Mitchell and Jack Morton completed a small soil and rock sampling on the area southwest and southeast of the occurrence. The southern extent of the mineralized zone of the occurrence could not be established.