The Royer Lake occurrence is located 1 kilometre north of Royer Lake, approximately 30 kilometres south of the town of Mackenzie, in the Cariboo Mining Division.

The area is underlain by Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic ultramafic rocks and Triassic sediments of the Takla Group.

Locally, medium grained magnetite and pyrite in small pods are hosted in a rusty, locally gossan-like, coarsely crystalline pyroxenite. The magnetite pods, disseminated over a 10 by 10 metre area are exposed in a prominent knob north of Royer Lake.

Work History

The occurrence is based on fieldwork done by Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) work.

The Royer mineral claims were staked in 1988 by Lac Minerals, based on anomalous stream sediment geochemistry results. A soil grid was completed consisting of 43 km of line; 694 soil samples were collected. The grid area covers the plotted Royer Lake MINFILE occurrence and areas several hundred metres in all directions. Two areas of interest were reported, one of limonitic alteration and the second of pyritic mineralization. Rock types reported during in 1989 included andesite, siltstone, argillite and coarse-grained pyrite and magnetite bearing diorite. No mention of pyroxenite was made. Nine large geochemically anomalous areas were outlined. Soil anomalies included various combinations of gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum and other elements.

The 2006 Nut and Nickel claims of Mountain Boy Minerals covered much of the same area as that Lac Minerals’ 1988 Royer claims. Work appears to have been limited to drilling on the Nickel claim several kilometers to the southeast. See MINFILE occurrence - Nickel-Nut (093O 052).

In 2007, ATW Ventures Ltd. completed a soil sampling and trenching program on the area as the Carp property.

In 2021, Homegold Resources Ltd. completed a minor program of prospecting and geochemical (rock and soil) sampling on the area as the Royer Lake property.