The Jock 3 showing is located west of Finlay River and 6 kilometres east-northeast of Drybrough Peak in the Omineca-Cassiar mountains some 275 kilometres north of Smithers. The occurrence is at the southern end of the Toodoggone gold camp which lies within the eastern margin of the Intermontane Belt and is underlain by a northwest-trending belt of Paleozoic to Tertiary sediments, volcanics and intrusions. The Jock 3 showing is situated within a Mesozoic volcanic arc assemblage bounded to the east by the Omineca Belt and to the west and southwest by the Sustut and Bowser basins.

Permian Asitka Group crystalline limestones are the oldest rocks exposed in the region. They are commonly in thrust contact with Upper Triassic Takla Group andesite flows and pyroclastic rocks. These Takla rocks have been intruded by plutons and other bodies of the mainly granodiorite to quartz monzonite Early Jurassic Black Lake Suite and are in turn unconformably overlain by or faulted against Lower Jurassic calcalkaline volcanics of the Toodoggone Formation, Hazelton Group.

The dominant structures in the area are steeply dipping faults which define a prominent regional northwest structural fabric trending 140 to 170 degrees. In turn, high angle northeast-striking faults (approximately 060 degrees) appear to truncate and displace northwest-striking faults. Collectively these faults form a boundary for variably rotated and tilted blocks underlain by monoclinal strata.

The Jock 3 showing is underlain by volcanics of the Toodoggone Formation consisting of predominantly hornblende-plagioclase and plagioclase phyric andesite porphyry flows, tuffs and breccias with lesser lahar, conglomerate, greywacke, siltstone and rare rhyolite. A major fault structure striking northwest lies a few hundred metres to the southwest of the Jock 3 showing. Outcrops along this fault structure consist of quartz breccia and veining with hematite-coated fractures, silicification and up to 1 per cent disseminated pyrite.

A number of epithermal quartz veins and brecciated quartz vein systems with pyrite have been identified around and at the Jock 3 showing. To date, all except the Jock 3 showing have failed to indicate anomalous gold and silver values from assayed rock samples. Two samples were taken from the Jock 3 showing during exploration in 1985. The first consisted of argillic-altered quartz-eye andesite. Assay results from sample SM-JK-02 were 2.1 grams per tonne silver and 0.21 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 14789). The second sample (SM-JK-01) consisted of argillic-altered quartz breccia. Assay values from this sample were 0.6 gram per tonne silver and 0.45 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 14789).

Work History

In 1982 and 1983, Golden Rule Resources Ltd. completed programs of prospecting, geological mapping, geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling and airborne geophysical surveys on the area as the Jock 1-5 claims. In 1985, a further program of prospecting, geological mapping and rock sampling was completed on the Jock claims.

In 1986, Canasil Resources Inc. completed a program of geological mapping, geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling and a ground resistivity survey on the area and the Brenda and Jan claims. In 1988, a further program of rock and soil sampling, geological mapping and ground geophysical surveys were completed on the area. During 1989 through 1993, programs of trenching and soil and rock sampling were completed on the area. During 1994 through 1997, further programs of diamond drilling were performed on the Brenda property, primarily on the Brenda - White Pass (MINFILE 094E 147) zone.

In 2002, Northgate Minerals Corporation optioned the Brenda property from Canasil Resources Inc. A high-resolution airborne magnetic, radiometric and satellite imaging surveys followed by 1650 metres of diamond drilling in four holes on the Brenda - White Pass (MINFILE 094E 147) zone. In 2003, a program of rock and soil sampling and five diamond drill holes, totalling 1481.1 metres, were completed on the Brenda property. In 2004, a further five diamond drill holes, totalling 1445.7 metres were completed. After review of the 2004 data, Northgate returned the property to the vendor.

In 2007 Canasil Resources conducted a 32.2 line-kilometer 3D Induced Polarization survey and five bore holes, totalling 1708 metres, centered over the White Pass (MINFILE 094E 147) zone area.

In 2013, Canasil Resources Inc. completed a program of rock sampling and a lone drill hole, totalling 962.6 metres, on the Brenda property.