The Goldbar NW showing is located approximately 11 kilometres north-northeast of Stewart, on the south side of the Stewart highway (37A) about 600 metres west of the Bitter Creek bridge. This showing is just west of the Goldbar property (104A 157) and is located in the same area as the historical Gold Bar No. 1 showings (104A 053).
The area is underlain by the Tertiary(?) Bitter Creek quartz monzonite pluton, a satellite body of the Coast Plutonic Complex. The pluton intrudes Lower Jurassic Unuk River Formation andesitic volcanics of the Hazelton Group (Bulletin 58; 63). The volcanics comprise crystal and lithic tuffs and cherty sediments that form large inclusions in the pluton (Assessment Report 20682).
Narrow, 1 to 20 centimetre wide quartz veins occupy narrow shears in the pluton and contain semimassive pyrite and chalcopyrite and up to 3 per cent molybdenite. A grab sample (88657) taken in 1990 assayed about 1.0 per cent copper, 1779.4 grams per tonne silver, 0.91 per cent bismuth, 0.22 per cent zinc, 0.21 per cent lead and 0.04 per cent molybdenum; gold, antimony and tungsten values were also anomalous (Assessment Report 20682). The reported assays are confusing as to which results belong with which sample/showing. Subsequent sampling (Assessment Report 21909) of the Goldbar showing (104A 157) to the southeast, fails to duplicate the results reported for that showing in Assessment Report 20682, but the values are very similar to the results quoted for this showing.
The history of the showing is unclear. The area was explored during 1910 and, again, in 1925 when the area was covered by the Good Enough (including the Gold Bar claim) and America's (or Americus) Girl claim groups. In 1990, Tenajon Resources Corp. carried out a limited rock, soil and silt sampling program on the Goldbar group owned by Javorsky. The showing was reported at that time. In 1994, a program of geochemical and geophysical surveying on the Empire group of claims for Prime Equities International was conducted. A total of 397 soil samples were collected and 3.5 kilometres of VLF-EM and 6.7 kilometres of magnetometer survey completed. In 1999, the Red 1-6 claims were staked by D.E. Molloy as part of a regional geochemical and geological evaluation and in 2000 an exploration program was carried out under the BC Prospectors Assistance Program. The exploration activities included compass and chain surveying of access roads, the installation of various flagged grid and control lines, and detailed and reconnaissance geological and geochemical surveys including the collection of 113 stream sediment, rock, soil and check samples.
