The Bruce property is located 3 kilometres north of Francois Lake and 4 kilometres west of Tchesinkut Lake. The claims are centered on a small outcrop, 300 metres north of a major side road.

The Bruce occurrence area is underlain by Cretaceous to Tertiary Ootsa Lake Group andesitic volcanic rocks and rhyolitic rocks and tuffs overlain by Lower Cretaceous Skeena Group conglomerates and siltstones. A diorite dike trending 030 degrees cuts the andesite which are comprised of propylitic altered flows and flow breccia. Vesicles are commonly filled with quartz, chalcedony, epidote, and calcite. The rhyolitic rocks contain vugs and fracture-fillings of chalcedony and locally, bitumen.

Quartz veins, stockworks and breccia-fillings are hosted by the andesite. The main vein strikes 055 degrees with steep dips to the northwest and is up to 0.7 metres wide with limited lateral extent (up to 30 metres). The quartz is white, locally banded, and vuggy. Disseminated pyrite occurs locally. A grab sample of the quartz veining assayed 3.88 grams per tonne gold and 3.2 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 16786) and other samples have returned up to 8.6 grams per tonne gold.

Two parallel stringer systems of mineralized quartz in fractures and shear zones in andesite, striking 030 to 050 degrees, are noted 100 metres to the west of the main vein. Gold values from this zone have included 4450, 1645 and 360 parts per billion (Property File Placer Dome Atna Resources Ltd., 1987).

Work History

In 1982, geophysical and soil geochemical surveys were performed by Chevron Standard Limited on the Mukaluk (093K 062), Weasel (immediately east of Mulvaney Lake), Bugsy (immediately east of Anderson lake) and Slippery claims (1 kilometre south of the Bugsy claims) in the Bruce occurrence area. A number of anomalous areas were identified but subsequent diamond drilling failed to find any significant mineralization. The highest values encountered were from a 0.60-metre section grading 108 parts per million copper, 8 parts per million lead, 326 parts per million, 3 parts per million silver and 20 parts per billion gold on the Slippery claims (Property File Chevron Northcote, K.E., 1982).

In 1987, the Bruce claims were staked as part of the Nechako Joint Venture between Imperial Metals, Atna Resources, and Interaction Resources. Soil sampling of the claims returned generally low values for gold.

During 2008 through 2010, William Amey prospected the area as the Gold Chip II property.