The Swan Cubx occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 1760 metres in the southwest headwaters of the east arm of Saunders Creek, approximately 10 kilometres south-southwest of the west end of Toodoggone Lake.

The area lies within the Omineca-Cassiar Mountains at the southern end of the Toodoggone gold camp. It occurs within a Mesozoic volcanic arc assemblage that 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. Takla volcanics have been intruded by Lower Jurassic granodiorite to quartz monzonite of the Black Lake Suite and are in turn unconformably overlain by or faulted against Lower Jurassic calc-alkaline 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.

Prospectors with Stealth Minerals Ltd. were attracted to a train of malachite and azurite-stained boulders near the headwaters of the east tributary of Saunders creek. Hand-trenching through gossaned talus uncovered mineralized angular boulders of fractured and brecciated andesite flows well mineralized with chalcopyrite, pyrite, bornite and quartz as disseminations and breccia fillings. Epidote, chlorite and clay are the main alteration minerals. Hand trenches encountered broken sub-crop material.

In 2003, float samples (132901 through 132904 and 133641) from the area yielded values of up to 5.267 per cent copper, 1.21 per cent zinc, 0.480 per cent lead and 12.9 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 27442).

In 2004, sampling of trenches on the Cu-Bx zone yielded from 0.08 to 3.78 per cent copper, trace to 0.08 gram per tonne gold and trace to greater than 100.0 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 27760).

In 2006, a grab sample (6185) of propylitic-altered crystal tuff with chalcopyrite, taken to the northwest of the Main Cu-Bx zone, assayed 0.342 per cent copper (Assessment Report 28645).

Work History

During 1967 through 1969, Quebec Cartier Mining Co. completed programs of prospecting, geological mapping and geochemical sampling on the area and identified chalcopyrite float in the area of the Cu-Bx occurrence.

A summary of work by Stealth Minerals includes the following. The Swan Cubx (Copper Breccia) showing was discovered in 2003 by Stealth Minerals. In 2004, prospecting and sampling was conducted on all the mineral claims with most of the efforts given to three showings: the Copper Breccia, the Saunders Main and the Som occurrences. On the Swan Cubx (Copper Breccia) alone, 198 soils, 17 talus fines and 81 rock chip samples were collected. Work on the Copper Breccia showing also included soil and lithogeochemical surveys in addition to prospecting and included some shallow surface trenching in attempts to expose the underlying bedrock in the areas of high copper assay results. In 2005 by way of option agreement the Swan claims to Golden Dawn Minerals., prospecting, soil and talus sampling, and geophysics were conducted with concentrated efforts on the Copper Breccia, Som and Saunders showings. During the 2006 season, follow-up assessment work was conducted on the Copper Breccia, Golden Neighbour 2 and Saunders showings which included collecting 26 grab or chip samples and detailed geological sampling. Stealth conducted geological examination and sampling of parts of the Copper Breccia showing in 2007.

Refer to Golden Neighbor 2 (094E 152) for details of a common work History of the Golden Neighbour and Swan properties.