The Camp 1 showing is located approximately 8.5 kilometres east-southeast of the Lawyers mine (094E 066), some 280 kilometres north of Smithers. The showing lies within the Omineca-Cassiar Mountains at the southern end of the Toodoggone gold camp. It occurs within a Mesozoic volcanic arc assemblage which lies along the eastern margin of the Intermontane Belt, a northwest-trending belt of Paleozoic to Tertiary sediments, volcanics and intrusions 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 Camp 1 showing is underlain by succession of lower to middle subaerial volcanics and associated volcaniclastic sediments of the upper volcanic cycle of the Toodoggone Formation. The dominant lithologies underlying the showing and east of a limonitic gossan fault zone, are divided into two informal units. The first unit consists of pyroxene-biotite-hornblende porphyry flows with interbedded breccias and lapilli tuffs. The other unit consists of well-bedded lapilli, crystal and ash tuffs with interbedded sandstone and siltstone. Units west of the limonitic gossan fault zone consist of a heterogeneous mixture of green, grey and mauve lapilli ash and lesser block tuff, with lesser interspersed ash flows and lava flows and interbedded epiclastics of the Attycelley Member and partly welded, crystal-rich dacitic ash flows of the conformably overlying Saunders Member. The area is also disrupted by a conjugate set of northwest and northeast-striking faults that appear to have substantial displacement.

Weak to intense propylitic alteration consists of fracture infilling with epidote and chlorite adjacent to epithermal vein systems. Intense argillic alteration consisting of limonite occurs in the cores of epithermal vein systems.

Mineralization is hosted in two separate outcrops approximately 200 metres apart. The first outcrop is composed of highly sheared and brecciated hematitic feldspar porphyry with strong malachite staining occurring along fracture surfaces. Sample F-9-2-1, taken from this outcrop, analysed 18.9 grams per tonne silver and 0.196 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 12716).

The second outcrop is 200 metres north of the first. It consists of propylitized quartz feldspar porphyry lightly mineralized with disseminated pyrite. Sample F-9-2-2, taken from this outcrop, analysed 1.69 grams per tonne silver and 0.078 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 12716).

In 2006, an outcrop sample (6324) of lithic-rich ash flow tuff hosts chalcopyrite with malachite and azurite staining, located on a ridge approximately 500 metres to the northeast, assayed 2.12 per cent copper and 2.3 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 28645). Also at this time, a float or subcrop sample (6610) from a 15 by 20 metre area of quartz-sericite-pyrite alteration, located on a ridge approximately 1.5 kilometres to the northeast, yielded 1.23 per cent copper, 28.7 grams per tonne silver and 0.09 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 28645).

Work History

In 1971, Kennco discovered the Saunders showing from a gold/copper/molybdenum soil anomaly on what later became the Golden Neighbor 1 claim (as reported in 1990 by Skeena Resources, possibly referring to the Camp 1 showing (094E 153)). The ground was allowed to lapse in 1973 and restaked by Lacana in 1979. Geological mapping, soil and silt geochemical sampling, and ground geophysical surveying conducted during 1980-81 confirmed the presence of extensive gold- and silver-in-soil geochemical anomalies and coincidental VLF-EM anomalies. Follow-up hand trenching revealed a number of quartz veins which assayed up to 1.62 gram per tonne gold, and other areas with over 1 per cent copper (as reported in Assessment Report 20401).

In 1985, Alban Explorations Ltd optioned the claims and performed a small amount of detailed magnetometer, VLF-EM, and soil geochemical work, before returning the ground in 1986.

During September 1986, Lacana undertook 605 metres of diamond drilling in five holes on the Golden Neighbour 1 prospect (094E 037) on the Golden Neighbour 1-4 and Camp 1 claim group (Assessment Report 15512). This drilling encountered a wide, intensely argillically altered fault zone with local quartz veining and abundant stringers of chalcopyrite and sphalerite. Anomalous go1d and silver values were encountered but none approaching economic grades. The high levels of base metals and especially molybdenum indicated a porphyry-type environment.

In 1988, Prolific Resources Ltd. completed a brief investigation of the previously located mineralized zones, coupled with reconnaissance prospecting and soil geochemical sampling over a potentially interesting but relatively unexplored area of the property.

The 1990 exploration of Skeena Resources on the Golden Neighbour 1 to 4 consisted of a brief evaluation of the previously located mineralized zones, coupled with reconnaissance prospecting of portions of the property. A total of 30 rock samples were collected and analyzed for gold and silver (Assessment Report 20401). The Golden Neighbour property also contained the Camp 1 claim which covered the Camp 1 occurrence.

In 2003, Stealth Minerals staked the Swan claims which covered the Camp 1 showing. During this year field crews completed a program of prospecting, stream geochemical sampling, and, in participation with the Geological Survey of Canada/Private Partnership Toodoggone Initiative, completed a helicopter airborne magnetic and radiometric survey. The survey recorded 2 magnetic parameters and eight gamma-ray spectrometer parameters flown at a line spacing of 400 metres and a sensor height of 60 metres over the entire property including the Saunders Northwest showing area (Assessment Report 27442).

During 2015 through 2018, Finlay Minerals Ltd. completed programs of prospecting, geological mapping and geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling on the area as Gold 1-6 claims of the Pil property.

Refer to Saunders (094E 017) for complete details of the Saunders/Swan and Golden Neighbor (094E 037 and 152) properties that had overlapping work programs.