The Mountain Dew occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 1450 metres on a north-facing slope, in the northeast headwaters of Snowy Creek.

The area is underlain by Upper Paleozoic Slide Mountain Complex greenstones (altered basalt).

Locally, carbonate-altered volcanics host quartz±carbonate–veined zones, up to 10 metres wide, with pyrite. The veins area generally narrow (less than 5 centimetres wide) but vary up to 1.0 metre wide. Some zones also contain chlorite, epidote and/or malachite.

In 1983, a chip sample (P3311) assayed 0.9 gram per tonne gold over 0.2 metre, whereas another chip sample (P3313) assayed 1.4 grams per tonne gold over an unknown length (Assessment Report 13098).

In 2019, a select grab sample (667585) from a 3-centimetre-wide mineralized quartz vein assayed 27.20 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 38989).

Work History

The area has been explored in conjunction with the nearby Snowy Creek-Rich Vein (MINFILE 104P 014) occurrence and a complete exploration history can be found there.