The Red 1-4 occurrence is located on the north side of the Cassiar Highway, northwest of McDame Creek and approximately 2 kilometres west of the north end of Callison Lake.

The area is underlain by basaltic volcanic rocks of the Mississippian Slide Mountain Complex.

Locally, carbonate-altered andesites, associated with a basaltic dike, host quartz veins with pyrite.

In 1981, two rock samples (3005 and 3006) assayed 3.60 and 0.30 grams per tonne gold, whereas another sample (3007), taken from along the highway approximately 700 metres to the northeast, assayed 1.08 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 9548).

Work History

Historical trenches of unknown age are reported on the small hill located immediately north of the occurrence.

During 1979 through 1981, Shell Canada Resources Ltd. completed programs of prospecting, geological mapping, geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling and ground geophysical (magnetic, electromagnetic and induced polarization) surveys on the area as the Red 1-4 claims of the Cassiar property. In 1984, Erickson Gold Mining soil sampled the area immediately northeast of the occurrence as the Axe claims. In 1989, a program of soil sampling was completed on the area immediately east of the occurrence as the CV and AU claim groups.

In 2006, Cusac Gold Mines Ltd. conducted a soil geochemical survey (2720 samples), LiDAR survey (139 square kilometres), trenching program (eight trenches for a combined length of 530 metres), and diamond drilling program (21 holes for a combined depth of 3280.3 metres; 843 core samples) on the Taurus II area of their Table Mountain Gold property.

During 2008 through 2010, Hawthorne Gold Corp., later China Minerals Mining Corp., completed regional programs of geological mapping, geochemical (rock and soil) sampling and 11,657 line-kilometres of airborne magnetic, radiometric and electromagnetic surveys on the area as the Cassiar Gold property. Also in 2008, Lomiko Metals Inc. completed a helicopter-borne magnetic gradiometer and VLF-EM survey, totalling 327 line-kilometres, on the area immediately south of the occurrences as the Vines Lake property.

In 2011 and 2012, Lomiko Metals Inc. conducted exploration programs on the Vines Lake property comprising prospecting, geological mapping and geochemical (rock and soil) sampling.

In 2019, Margaux Resources completed a program of prospecting, geological mapping and rock sampling on the area as the Cassiar Gold property. In 2020, Cassiar Gold Corp. completed a program of regional photogeological interpretation, prospecting and rock sampling on the Cassiar Gold property.

In 2021, Cazador Resources Ltd. completed a minor program of rock, silt and soil sampling on the area immediately southeast of the occurrence as the Hawthorne West property.