The Rock of Ages showing is located in the southeastern part of the Rock of Ages No. 6 claim (Lot 4938). The claim is about 1.5 kilometres northeast of Mount Shorty Stevenson and approximately 2.2 kilometres west of the Bear River, 14 kilometres north of Stewart.

The area is underlain by north striking, west dipping Lower Jurassic Unuk River Formation (Hazelton Group) rocks comprising mainly andesitic breccias and flows that are intruded by north to northwest trending dikes (Bulletin 58; 63).

Mineralization is hosted in a unit of intercalated porphyritic feldspar rhyolite flows and tuffs (Assessment Report 20744). A sheared, siliceous, quartz-flooded andesite carries 1-10 per cent pyrite and 1 to 3 per cent disseminated chalcopyrite. A grab sample of the mineralization assayed 69.2 grams per tonne silver and 1.43 per cent copper (Assessment Report 20744).

Work History

The Dalhousie Mining Company Limited acquired the Rock of Ages claim group and conducted work during 1925 through 1928. No further work was reported until 1979 when Tournigan Mining Explorations Ltd. carried out geological mapping, prospecting, trenching and sampling. No work was reported on the showing. In 1983, Rich Lode Gold Corporation entered into an agreement with Tournigan and performed some prospecting near the showing. In 1986, Moche Resources Inc. acquired the Rock of Ages claims and conducted a program comprising geological mapping, airborne, ground VLF-EM and magnetometer surveys, and soil and silt geochemical surveys. No work was reported on the showing. In 1990, the Rock of Ages claims were included in the Rock Royal claim group, owned by D. Javorski. The group was optioned to Calnor Resources Ltd. and Tenajon Resources Corp. who subsequently carried out a rock, silt and soil geochemical survey on the claim group in 1990. The showing was described that year. In 2010, geological mapping, geophysical surveying and rock and soil sampling was carried out on the MC claims on behalf of REC Minerals Corp. and included 95 soil and 22 rock samples and total field magnetometer surveying along 1.9 kilometres. In 2017 and 2019, Bonanza Mining Corp. completed programs of prospecting, geochemical (rock and soil) sampling and ground geophysical (induced polarization, magnetic and gravity) surveys on the area as the MC property.