The Windy occurrence is located 6.5 kilometres north of Salmon Lake, on the Salmon River, about 61 kilometres north-northeast of Fort St. James.

The Windy showing is underlain by poorly exposed rocks of the Upper Triassic Takla Group to the north and an extensively chloritized and sheared diorite intrusion to the south. The Takla Group is comprised of augite porphyry flows and minor tuffaceous sediments. Alteration minerals consist of chlorite and minor epidote, carbonate and sericite. Epidote occurs with quartz, chlorite and minor sphene in veinlets and alteration blebs.

Mineralization exposed in pits and outcrops consists of pyrite, chalcopyrite and malachite with low and variable gold, silver and palladium values. Chalcopyrite with minor pyrite occurs as disseminations, in veinlets in diorite associated with quartz and epidote and in quartz tourmaline veins (an example of the latter is exposed in a pit).

In 1985, a rock sample (W85-1) of sheared basalt hosting quartz-calcite veins with chalcopyrite from trench 1 assayed 1.35 per cent copper, 4.3 grams per tonne silver and 3.6 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 14449).

The average of five samples in 1987 assayed 0.36 per cent copper and 0.57 gram per tonne gold; a maximum palladium value from the samples was 1.25 grams per tonne (Assessment Report 15996). Also in 1987, chip samples from trench T87-5 yielded 0.9 gram per tonne gold, 0.23 per cent copper and 0.885 gram per tonne palladium across a sampled length of 8.0 metres in a schistose, chloritized diorite unit (Assessment Report 16597).

A few hundred metres west of the occurrence, a 1989 Placer Dome diamond-drill hole, inclined easterly, intersected diorite-hosted copper and gold mineralization throughout its 104 metre length, including an intercept (true width unknown) of 0.192 gram per tonne gold and 0.16 per cent copper over 38.4 metres (Assessment Report 19853).

In 2004, a float sample (B21) of malachite-stained, chloritized diorite assayed 0.336 gram per tonne gold, 5.4 grams per tonne silver and 0.73 per cent copper, whereas a nearby outcrop sample (R124) of foliated andesite(?) or diorite yielded 0.116 per cent copper (Assessment Report 28025). These samples were taken close to the Salmon River and approximately 200 metres southeast of the Windy occurrence. Approximately 300 metres south-southwest of the Windy occurrence, along the north bank of the Salmon River, a grab sample of malachite-stained diorite assayed 0.2 gram per tonne gold and 1.05 per cent copper (Assessment Report 14449). Partial results from a 1991 percussion drilling program in the general area indicate the presence of several anomalous intercepts, including 15.2 metres grading 0.12 gram per tonne gold, 0.15 per cent copper and 9.1 metres grading 0.30 gram per tonne gold, 0.21 per cent copper (Assessment Report 23838).

In 2008, drillhole 08-01, located near the main Windy occurrence, intercepted andesitic volcanic rocks and diorite cut by feldspar porphyry and felsite dikes with zones of strongly foliated and intensely sericitized and chloritized rock with disseminated and fracture-filling chalcopyrite, pyrite and magnetite and quartz veins, up to 0.15 metre wide, hosting disseminated to blebby chalcopyrite. A 0.15-metre sample from a mineralized vein yielded greater than 1.00 per cent copper and 0.144 gram per tonne gold, whereas samples of the altered wallrocks to the vein yielded values of 0.441 and 0.824 per cent copper with 0.454 and 0.919 gram per tonne gold over 2.30 and 1.85 metres, respectively (Assessment Report 30754). Drillhole 08-04 was completed to test for depth extensions to the mineralization encountered in hole 08-01 and intercepted a 2-centimetre wide massive chalcopyrite band or vein in chlorite-sericite–altered hostrocks with disseminated pyrite±chalcopyrite yielding 0.119 per cent copper over 2.0 metres, whereas other sections yielded up to 0.688 and 0.119 gram per tonne gold over 1.0 metres, each (Assessment Report 30754).

In 2016, nine samples from the historical trenches on the main Windy zone averaged 0.405 per cent copper and 0.744 gram per tonne gold with up to 2.497 grams per tonne palladium, whereas prospecting to the south and east of the main zone yielded an average of 0.489 per cent copper, 5.1 grams per tonne silver and 0.177 gram per tonne gold with up to 0.700 gram per tonne palladium from seven rock samples of variably altered and mineralized diorite (Assessment Report 36209).

Work History

In 1985, Brinco Limited completed a soil geochemical survey over an area trenched by Richard Haslinger immediately north of the Salmon River. Brinco concluded that alteration, rock types and mineralization are compatible with a porphyry style of mineralization. From 1986 to 1990, Placer Dome Inc. completed soil geochemical (4451 samples), rock geochemical (63 samples), ground magnetometer (120 line-kilometres), VLF-EM (120 line-kilometres) and induced polarization (IP) (81.9 line-kilometres) surveys. They also completed the excavation of 11 trenches totalling 686 metres and the drilling of 15 NQ core holes totalling 2180 metres.

During 1989 through 1991, Noranda Mining and Exploration Inc. completed programs of geological mapping, geochemical (biogeochemical, rock and soil) sampling, ground magnetic and induced polarization surveys and airborne geophysical surveys on the surrounding area as the Alpha-Beta property.

In 1990, Placer Dome optioned claims immediately to the west of Windy from Tex Gold Resources Ltd. and carried out a program of soil geochemical (1097 samples), ground magnetometer (14.7 line-kilometres) and VLF-EM (9.7 line-kilometres) surveys.

In 1991, Big Bar Gold Corp. joined in the Placer Dome option on the Windy property and funded a drilling program consisting of 24 percussion holes (total meterage unknown).

The area adjacent and northeast of the Windy claims (later covered by the Captain claims)was held by Hudson Bay Explorations as the Sam claims in 1994, at which time they prospected and collected a few samples. Also in 1994, in the same area as the Sam, Talisman Silver held the Gut claims where they collected 31 rock and 24 soil samples. This area was previously held as the Alpha claims.

In 1996, Columbia Gold Mines Ltd. optioned the Windy property and drilled eight NQ core holes totalling 547 metres.

In 2003, the Windy property lapsed and was re-staked as the Captain claims by Barney Bowen and Gordon Richards. From 2004 to 2006, Bowen and Richards carried out modest assessment work programs consisting of MMI geochemical sampling and prospecting on the Captain claims.

In 2007, Bowen and Richards staked a large block of claims east, northeast, west and south of the original Captain property. The expanded property is referred to as the Greater Captain (Assessment Report 30194) or the QTSP (Assessment Report 29908) property. The claims to the east and northeast cover the old Sam, Gut, Alpha and PM properties. Those to the west and south were staked to cover various geochemical and geophysical targets underlain by favourable Quesnel terrane geology. In 2007, all claims were subsequently acquired by Orestone Mining Corp. through a property purchase agreement between Orestone and Ruanco Enterprises Ltd. (Gordon Richards and B.K. Bowen).

In 2007, Orestone completed a program of MMI soil geochemical (521 samples), induced polarization (30.5 line-kilometres) and ground magnetics (30.5 line-kilometres) surveys in the northern part of the property (in what was the old Windy property area). Highlight of the work was the identification of a large, approximately three square kilometres chargeability anomaly locally associated with copper and gold soil anomalies. These coincident geophysical and geochemical anomalies are thought to be indicative of a porphyry-type copper-gold target.

In 2008, Orestone Mining Corp. carried out a program of NQ2 diamond drilling in the northern part of the Captain property. Six holes totalling 1103 metres were completed. Four holes (08-01, 08-04, 08-05 and 08-06) tested structurally controlled mineralization and two holes (08-02 and 08-03) tested a small portion of the three square kilometres chargeability anomaly. Also in 2008, Orestone Mining Corp. completed a 24.0 line-kilometre induced polarization and magnetic survey over parts of the Captain property.

In 2009, Orostone completed 27 percussion drill holes, totalling 803.9 metres, on previously identified geophysical anomalies on the Captain property. Twenty of these holes penetrated bedrock with many of the holes intersecting pyrite to explain the anomaly. One hole (PDH 09-02), located in the southeast limit of drilling and approximately 2.5 kilometres southeast of the Tsil (MINFILE 093J 026) occurrence and on the Commodore 1 claim, intersected argillic-pyrite alteration with elevated copper and gold values. Later that year, five diamond drill holes, totalling 673.9 metres, were completed to test targets that could not be tested by percussion drilling due to deep over burden.

In 2010, Orostone Mining Corp. completed a program of soil sampling, core re-sampling of DDH 09-05 and 39 line-kilometres of ground induced polarization and magnetic surveys on the property. This work centred on the Commadore 1 claim area located approximately 13 kilometres south-southwest of the Windy occurrence.

In 2011, Orostone Mining Corp. completed a program of drilling and 34.0 line-kilometres of induced polarization and magnetic survey over parts of the Captain property.

In late 2011 and early 2012, Orostone Mining Corp. completed five diamond drill holes, totalling 1275.6 metres, on the Captain property. This work centred on the Commadore 1 claim area and identified an approximately 50-square-kilometre area believed to be a zone of intense alteration and disseminated sulphides associated with altered monzonite intrusive centres.

In late 2012 and 2013, Orostone Mining Corp. completed six diamond drill holes, totalling 1554.4 metres, and 120.0 line-kilometres of ground magnetic surveying on the Captain property. This work centred on the Commadore 1 claim area.

In 2016, Orostone Mining Corp. completed a 6.8 line-kilometre induced polarization survey on the Commadore 1 claim area of the Captain property. A program of biogeochemical and rock samples was completed on the Windy occurrence area.

In 2018, Orostone Mining Corp. completed a minor program of rock and soil sampling on the Commadore 1 claim area of the Captain property. A program of rock and biogeochemical sampling was performed on the Windy occurrence area.

In 2019, C.J. Greig and Associates completed a 760.0 line-kilometre airborne geophysical survey on the area as the Milly property.

In 2021, the area was prospected and rock sampled by Bernie Kreft. Thirteen rock chip and representative samples, taken to the south of the Copper (Windy) zone, yielded an average of 0.214 per cent copper, 1.9 grams per tonne silver and 0.106 gram per tonne gold with anomalous palladium values of up to 0.597 gram per tonne (Assessment Report 39566).