The Michel showing, an anomalous sample taken from an area of several chalcopyrite, bornite, barite, pyrite and quartz showings, is located 1.75 kilometres west-southwest of The Pillar and 6.75 kilometres northeast of the Shasta occurrence (094E 050) (Assessment Report 16803). The showing is located in the central part of the Toodoggone gold camp, 280 kilometres north of Smithers.

The Michel showing is situated within a Mesozoic volcanic arc assemblage which lies along the eastern margin of the Intermontane Belt, a northwest-trending belt of Paleozoic to Neogene 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.

Undivided Lower to Middle Jurassic volcanic rocks and volcanic-derived sedimentary rocks of the Hazelton Group comprise lithologies underlying the Michel showing. Lithologies include well-bedded lapilli tuff and pyroclastic breccia, rare accretionary lapilli tuff; pyroclastic andesite and subordinate basalt lava flows; interspersed volcanic conglomerate, laminated siltstone and mudstone (Bulletin 86). Felsic and andesitic dikes and porphyry sills cut this package.

Assay results from sample 106832, taken at the Michel showing, were 3.7 grams per tonne silver and 0.19 per cent copper (Assessment Report 16803). No mineralization was reported from this sample but several chalcopyrite, bornite, barite, pyrite and quartz showings occur in the area (Assessment Report 16803).

Work History

In 1980 and 1981, SEREM Ltd. completed programs of prospecting, geological mapping, trenching and geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling on the area as the Atlas and Hercules claims. In 1985, SEREM Ltd. completed a further program of prospecting, geological mapping and a ground electromagnetic survey on the Atlas and Hercules claims.

In 1986 and 1987, the Toodoggone Syndicate completed programs of prospecting, geochemical (rock and soil) sampling and a 75 line-kilometre airborne geophysical survey on the area as the Daniel, Anna and Michel claims. Also in 1987, Beachview Resources Ltd. completed a program prospecting and geochemical (rock and soil) sampling on the Anna and Michel claims.

During the 1990’s through 2020 (from 1999 by Finlay Minerals Ltd.) the area immediately was explored as part of the Pil property, and a completed exploration history can be found at the Pil South (MINFILE 094E 310) occurrence.