The Kirtland showing, as part of the Engineer gold camp, is located on the east side of Taku Arm about 10 kilometres east of the eastern edge of the Coast Plutonic Complex.

In the area, Lower Jurassic Laberge Group (Inklin Formation) greywackes, shales, and argillites are folded into a syncline with a northwest-trending fold axis. Sediments on the western limb strike about 120 degrees and dip 30 to 40 degrees northeast. Small granodiorite plugs outcrop west of Engineer Mountain and south of Bee Peak. To the east of the plug on Engineer Mountain, a subcircular volcanic cap or neck, about 4 kilometres across, is preserved predominantly as a down-dropped block. The volcanic cap or neck comprises Cretaceous or later rhyolites, trachytes, and volcanic breccias (probably equivalent to the Sloko Group). Feldspar porphyry, trachyte, and andesite dikes can be seen in underground workings and are reportedly offset by veins.

Veins belonging to the Kirtland occurrence represent the southern extension of the Engineer vein system. Two shafts and several trenches have explored these veins. The main vein, the Jersey Lily, has an indicated length of 425 metres. It consists of vuggy comb-quartz-argillite solution breccia with quartz stringers and veinlets. Only a small amount of gold was found.

WORK HISTORY

The 6 claim Kirkland group was owned by Captain W. Hawthorn and Thomas Kirtland. The only work except prospecting was done on the Jersey Lilly claim in 1913 and consisted of 2 shallow shafts about 10 and 14 feet deep. Kirtland Gold Mines Ltd. held the property in 1925 but no work was done by the company.

In 1980, Windarra Minerals conducted a program of geological mapping, geochemical sampling, and diamond drilling on the company's claims surrounding the old "Engineer" gold mine. Soil samples were taken at 30-metre intervals along east-west lines spaced 100 metres apart. A total of 801 soil samples were taken along 2.6 kilometres of grid lines and were analyzed for silver, lead, and zinc. Windarra reported two old trenches on the Jersey Lily Claim that exposed a 61-centimetre-wide vein (012 degrees strike/67 to 86 degrees dip west) for 75 metres. Windarra referred to this exposed portion of the vein on the Jersey Lily claim to be the “Jersey Lily vein Extension”. This extension is about 200 metres south of the Jersey Lily vein on the Northern Partnership 2 claim.

Windarra indicates (on their Geology Map) the Jersey Lilly vein to be located on the northeast corner of the Northern Partnership 2 claim (Lot 21), adjacent to the north of the Jersey Lily claim (Lot 21) (Assessment Report 9049). Windarra reported an anomalous soil geochemical trend occurring downhill and to the west of the "Jersey Lily vein Extension". They surmised that the anomaly was possibly transported, but that the vein would then be expected to continue some 500 metres south.

Refer to Engineer (104M 014) and Gleaner (104M 016) for related geological and work history details