The Pine occurrence is located 7.5 kilometres southeast of Mount Bower and 6 kilometres northwest of Bower Creek. The community of Ware is approximately 32 kilometres to the east.
Regionally, the Pine showing is hosted within a regional, northwest trending, fault-bound sequence of Cambrian to Ordovician rocks. These rocks have been divided into a lower sequence, the Lower Cambrian Atan Group, and an upper sequence, the Cambrian to Ordovician Kechika Group. The Atan Group, in the Toodoggone map area, is composed of three units. From oldest to youngest these are: quartzite with minor pebble conglomerate; impure quartzite, shale, local sandstone, conglomerate; and limestone, siltstone and dolomite. The Kechika Group, of which rocks of the Pine showing belong, is composed of phyllitic limestone, calcareous shale, limestone and phyllite.
Locally, the rocks underlying the Pine showing are divided into two groups: phyllite and calcareous shale near the east and northeastern margins of the claims, and schists and limestones toward the west. Schists are divided into sericite schist and chlorite schist. Massive grey limestone beds are associated with the schists. The schists have undergone very tight folding, with the dominant schistosity striking 300 degrees and dipping near vertical.
The schists host all the sulphide mineralization. Numerous showings are present in old trenches scattered throughout the property. Trenches have exposed numerous lensoid quartz-calcite bodies, bound by narrow, discrete bands of galena, chalcopyrite, sphalerite and minor tetrahedrite, hosted in sericite and chlorite schist.
During 1992, several extensive quartz veins were observed in the creek valley on the claims at approximately the 1000 metres elevation. Smaller veins and float were apparent throughout the property. Locally these veins produce a quartz-carbonate altered wallrock which contains spotty chalcopyrite and traces of galena and sphalerite. Minor zones rich in pyrite and limonite were also noted in massive limestone units just above the east junction of the creek. No economic significance was attached to these zones.
Work History
The Pine 1-10 claims were owned in 1969 by P.J. Weishaupt. Can-Fer Mines Limited held an option on the property in 1969 and carried out 40 metres of trenching.
The first recorded activity in the area of the Bow claims was a program of soil sampling and rock geochemistry over the present claims submitted for assessment by Serem Ltd. in 1980. This program outlined a significant coincident lead-zinc-copper soil anomaly over a one kilometre strike length (Assessment Report 9093).
In 1981, Canmine Development Company Ltd. performed a test program of Max Min II horizontal loop electromagnetic (EM) surveying on several properties in the Finlay River-Mt. Basnett area including in the vicinity of the Pine showings (Assessment Report 10173). A one-day test EM survey on the Rich and Co claims located a weak conductor on reconnaissance line 2.
The Bow claims were staked in March 1992 by Major General Resources Ltd. of Vancouver B.C. under agreement with Kennecott Canada Inc. Seven rock samples and 29 soil samples were collected.
