The Bruce occurrence is located 8 kilometres southwest of Johanson Lake and approximately 2 kilometres east of Goldway Peak. A small lake, informally named Solo Lake, is located at the headwaters of Solo Creek and is approximately 1 kilometre northeast of the occurrence. The occurrence, comprises the A through E veins, all in the same vicinity. The given MINFILE UTM location is that of the A vein, which is the most significant of the veins (Ministry of Mines Annual Report 1947, pages 105-108).
Regionally, the area lies within the Quesnel Terrane and is underlain by mainly submarine basaltic and andesitic island-arc volcanics and sediments of the Upper Triassic Takla Group (Assessment Report 21394). These stratified rocks have undergone regional greenschist metamorphism and are cut by ultramafic to intermediate intrusions of Upper Triassic to Cretaceous age (Assessment Report 21394).
The area is bounded to the west by the north-trending Findlay-Ingenika fault, which separates Stikinia from Quesnellia. The north-trending Dortatelle fault occurs to the east. Related shears and faults cut both the intrusives and stratified rocks. The dominant direction of shearing is north and subordinate shears and faults trend west (Assessment Report 21394).
Locally, the area is underlain by mainly feldspar, augite and/or hornblende phyric andesites and basalts, tuffs, lapilli tuffs, volcaniclastic siltstones, sandstones and argillites. These rocks have been regionally metamorphosed and are intruded by the Goldway stock, an Early Jurassic intrusive complex (Assessment Report 21394). This complex ranges in composition from hornblendite to granodiorite, but is predominantly fine to medium-grained diorite to quartz diorite. The volcanics and sediments at the typically sharp contact are hornfelsed (Assessment Report 21394).
The rocks have been deformed by both brittle and ductile shearing and faulting, trending predominantly northwest. Fault zones occur near the northeast and southern contact zones of the intrusive. Large en echelon tension gashes are formed within these shear zones.
Gold and silver are associated with minor pyrite in quartz veins and stockworks. These veins appear to be structurally controlled and trend northwest. The apparent age of mineralization is Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic, based on the timing of the faulting
The A through E veins are associated with shearing at or near the southern contact of the intrusion. These veins are part of a northwest-trending vein system. The distance from the southeast A vein to the northwest E vein is approximately 1 kilometre along strike.
The A vein is the most significant and best mineralized vein in the group. This white quartz vein, striking north to northwest and dipping steeply west, varies in width from a few centimetres to 1 metre where exposed. It is traceable for approximately 100 metres along strike and 100 metres vertically (Assessment Report 21394). The vein appears to pinch out near the ridge crest to the north and disappears under overburden to the south. Visible gold has been noted in three locations with reported gold values up to 68.5 grams per tonne (1.998 ounces per ton) and 96.0 grams per tonne silver (from a channel sample over 0.2 metre) (Assessment Report 21394). The best gold values appear to be associated with galena and pyrite in the hanging wall portions of the vein.
The B vein is a northwest striking, 150 metre elongate lens of milky white quartz. The vein, containing little or no sulphides or gold values, is up to 10 metres wide and pinches out at both ends.
The C vein is traceable for 40 metres, averages 45 centimetres in width and contains visible gold. It also pinches out at both ends. One of the best samples assayed 35.657 grams per tonne gold
The D vein is traceable for more than 200 metres and is between 1 to 3 metres in width. The vein occurs as a series of en echelon lenses striking about 140 degrees and dipping 70 degrees to the north. The best sample assayed 8.9 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 21394).
The E vein is also an en echelon series of quartz lenses ranging in width from a few centimetres to 1 metre. No significant precious metal values have been obtained from this vein.
WORK HISTORY
Numerous claims were staked in this vicinity in 1946. The Goldway 1-5, 7-8 claims were recorded in the name of N.G. Kerr, of Vanderhoof. Goldway Peak Mines, Limited, was incorporated in February 1947 to acquire the property. Work during 1947 included geological mapping, the driving of a short adit, trenching, and sampling. No further work was done and the claims lapsed.
In 1945, gold bearing quartz veins were found east of Goldway Peak by members of the Geological Survey of Canada during regional mapping in June of 1945. These veins were staked in 1946 by J. Burton, J. Lawlor and C. French, and the property was known as the Bruce group. The A through E veins, were mapped, described and sampled by W. H. White for the British Columbia Department of Mines in 1947 (White, 1947 (Minister of Mines 1947, pages 105 to 108), and by D. D. Campbell for Goldway Mines in September, 1947 (unpublished)). The property was known as the "Bruce Property" at this time. Five main veins, named 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D' and 'E' veins, and several other smaller veins were stripped and sampled. The GOOD, MUCH, and PRO claims appear to have covered the same ground in 1982.
In the mid 1940s, Springer-Sturgeon Gold Mines Limited were prospecting and staked their findings as the Solo property. This work was carried out slightly to the north of the principal veins of the Goldway Peak property. Work by the company was apparently confined to stripping and sampling. It appears likely that this area was covered by the Good claim in 1982.
In March 1973 the area was restaked as MO 1-20 and optioned by San Jacinto Explorations Limited in February 1974. This was probably covered later by the PRO and FIT claims in 1982.
In 1976, all interest passed to Western International Explorations, for which D. D. Campbell wrote an updated report on the property, a1though no additional visit to the area was included.
The Vi 1 and 2 mineral claims were staked in 1979 by Clayton Powney to cover the main showings.
In 1979, C.S. Powney staked the Vi 1 and Vi 2 claims and optioned the Goldway Peak properties to Laramie Mining Corp. Additional claims were staked by Laramie Mining Corporation. Chalcopyrite, pyrite, azurite, galena, and free gold can be found in scant quantities in northwesterly striking quartz veins. Two veins in particular, the "A" and "C" veins, have known economic values of gold. A VLF-EM 16 survey, which was undertaken to determine the extension on these veins, provided little evidence in this regard. The scant mineralization within the quartz veins was not sufficient to elicit a suitable response from this technique.
Further ground was staked for Dermont Fahey in 1980 to include all the showings, A to E, with the inclusion of the Vi claims by option.
In 1982, a soil survey across Goldway Creek, below the showings was completed by Gerhart von Rosen for Dermot Fahey (Assessment Report 10809). It was determined that there was gold in the "soils" in Goldway Creek and that the most likely source was the known veins, located up-stream.
A route for potential road access onto the property was outlined by R. W. Phendler (1983) for Laramie Mining Corp. (Assessment Report 11636).
In 1984, a VLF-EM survey was completed across the main mineralized veins by R. E. Game, Laramie Mining concluded that VLF-EM results were of little use in outlining the vein structures due to the steepness of slope and the minor amount of sulphides within the veins (Assessment Report 13145).
In 1984, Laramie Mines, operator of the Vi 1 and Vi 2 claims (part of the Goldway Peak property), sampled the A-vein, both quartz and adjacent footwall and hanging walls. The values of the samples confirmed the sampling of White and Campbell (1947), and showed that values in the wall rock were consistently low (maximum value of 1.89 grams per tonne gold) (Figure 3, Assessment Report 13175).
In 1984, BP Resources staked the Goldway 1-8 claims over an area drained by gold anomalous creeks sampled during a regional geochemical program conducted in the mid 1970s. These claims were located primarly to the south of Goldway Creek and east toward Darb Creek and southeast toward Kliyul Creek. (Figure 2, Assessment Report 13697). Preliminary geological mapping and geochemical sampling was carried out. A total of 141 rock chips, 388 soils, 82 talus fines and 41 stream silt samples were collected. BP worked at Mariposite Creek (Dort 2 (094D 204)) and Red Bluffs which resulted in the location of two zones of anomalous gold in talus fines samples. both of which are associated with areas of quartz,carbonate-altered Takla Group sediments and lesser volcanics. Sampling at Mariposite Creek returned up to 3795 parts per billion gold from talus fines while up to 495 parts per billion gold was obtained from talus fines samples taken at Red Bluffs (Assessment Report 13697). A greater than 200 parts per billion gold anomaly in talus fines is approximately 400 metres wide and remains open to the east and west. This area is also associated with widespread quartz-carbonate-pyrite alteration and veining. Also see Johan (094D 137) and Mariposite (094D 202).
In 1985, Laramie Mining Corporation conducted work on the Goldway Veins consisting of further sampling of the "A" vein and prospecting and sampling in the surrounding area (Assessment Report 14105). D. J. Pawliuk mapped part of the property end discovered numerous previous1y unreported veins, including the F-vein first located on the north facing slope south of Solo (Bruce) Lake. The F vein has a strike length of 386 meters and contains sulphides at four points. Gold and silver values occur within the F vein (Assessment Report 14105). In 1985, Laramie's Goldway Peak property consisted of the following claims: Vi-1 (1948), Vi-2 (1949), Prospects (41471), And (4148), Much (4149), Pro (4150), Good (4155), Dar (4154) and FIT (4151) (see Figure 3, Assessment Report 14105). Thirty-six rock chip samples were collected from quartz veins and 4 rock chip samples were collected from vein wallrock.
In 1986, Laramie Mining conducted work on the Goldway Veins and Glacier Zone. About 140 grab and chip samples were collected from newly-discovered zones of quartz veining and a 1360 tonne bulk sample was taken from an accessible portion of the “A” vein and processed via grinding to 100 mesh. This bulk sample yielded an average grade of 4.42 grams per tonne gold, with recovery of about 97 per cent (Assessment Report 15313). Prospecting this year resulted in the discovery of the Glacier zone (094D 136), sampling of which yielded resulted in up to 25 metres of 0.96 grams per tonne gold from a 140 degree trending sheeted quartz-carb vein-set cutting iron-carbonate altered and pyritized tuffs (Assessment Report 15313).
In August of 1989, Buster Irving of Vanderhoof, B. C., restaked the Vi1 and 2 claims as the Buster 1 and 2 in order to cover the main A-vein, which had come open. Additional claims were staked to cover the adjacent ground, all of which were subsequently transferred to Jetta Resources. The Solo 1 to 4 mineral claims were staked by Jetta Resources over all the exsisting claims in May 28, 1990, and all previous claims are now included in the Solo Group.
In 1990, Jetta Resources conducted work on the M Veins and Phyllite Veins. Work consisted of further sampling of the known vein occurrences as well as prospecting of the surrounding area. Prospecting discoveries include the M Veins which consist of galena-arsenopyrite of mineralized proximally-derived quartz vein float returning up to 11.42 grams per tonne gold and 690 grams per tonne silver as well as the Phyllite Veins (094D 027) and other float occurrences in the area that returned up to 65.83 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 21394).
In 1994, Hemlo Gold worked on the KPO, GV, Creek and TF zones and Maraposite Creek and Hemlo Drilling collected a total of 717 soils and 195 rocks samples and constructed 32.4 line kilometers of grid. 29.05-line kilometers of magnetometer surveying was later completed on the property. This work resulted in the definition of a 3 kilometre long and 500-1000 metre wide zone of quartz veined and fractured ankerite and sericite-altered, pyritized andesite tuffs semi-coincident with a greater than 100 parts per billion gold-in-soil anomaly (Assessment Report 23682).
In 1995, Hemlo Gold Mines Inc. continued work on several of the properties described in 1994. Drilling was completed on the Soup and Granite Basin projects while further geological and geochemical surveys were conducted on the Darb and Mariposite projects. In 1995, on the Mariposite property, a total of 111 soils, 508 rocks were collected of which 142 rocks were applied for assessment (Assessment Report 24138, 24238).
Assay results reported to have been yielded “...from the 743 rock samples collected during the 1994/95 programs revealed that 70 samples returned results of greater than or equal to 0.5 gram per tonne gold...”, roughly 9 per cent of the total sample population (Assessment Report 24138, 24778).
In 1996 Battle Mountain Canada (formerly Hemlo Gold Mines lnc.) drilled 461 metres in 2 diamond drill holes on the Mariposite Property (Assessment Report 24778). The program was conducted in order to test amomalous gold in talus line anomalies associated with quark-quartz/calcite stockworking hosted by sericite-ankerite plus/minus biotite -altered andesite volcanics and epiclastics. The drill program incorporated geological and geochemical data collected during the 1994-1995 field seasons. Drill results are discussed in MINFILE KPO274 (094D 181).
The 2012 field work of Bernard Kreft focused on the area immediately surrounding the Johan MINFILE occurrence (Mariposite) , though the Dort property claims covered most of the historical showings west and south of Johanson Lake. A one day helicopter supported field geochemistry and prospecting program was conducted. Five out of the eight silt samples collected returned gold values of less than 100 parts per billion gold. One rock sample obtained from a quartz vein returned 0.142 gram per tonne gold over 0.70 meters (Assessment Report 33552) The positive geochemical results continue to delineate the presence of gold mineralization in the area encompassing the Johan MINFILE occurrence. Further work on the DORT claims is warranted to constrain bedrock anomalies, and to provide direction for advancing exploration targets.
In 2013, Bernie Kreft conducted a program of soil and rock sampling in an effort to verify historical results (Assessment Report 34463). Work consisted of soil and rock sampling traverses conducted in the area of the Mariposite Creek (Johan (094D 137) and TF zones. A total of 67 soil samples and 14 rock samples.
Refer to also to Goldway (094D 027), Glacier (094D 136), Johan (094D 137), F Vein (094D 178), Glacier 2 South (094D 201), Mariposite (094D 202).
