The Christine occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 1260 metres, near the southeast bank of the west fork of Finlayson Creek and approximately 3.5 kilometres south of the creeks’ junction with McDame Creek.

The area is underlain by argillite, interbedded volcanic rocks, chert and listwanite of the Upper Paleozoic Slide Mountain Complex.

Locally, a 0.5- to 1.0-metre-wide vein, referred to as the Christine vein, hosts up to 10 per cent tetrahedrite and minor amount of pyrite. The vein has been traced for 18 metres along a strike of 350 degrees. The vein is hosted at a chert-listwanite contact.

In 1990, a sample from trench EC90-9 assayed 32.2 grams per tonne gold and greater than 40 grams per tonne silver, whereas a sample from trench EC90-6 assayed 128.1 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 21548). Drilling on the Christine vein yielded up to 1.6 grams per tonne gold over 5.1 metres, including 3.5 grams per tonne gold over 0.7 metre in hole EC90-4, whereas the nearby drillhole EC90-2 yielded 1.0 gram per tonne gold over 4.3 metres (Assessment Report 21548).

Also at this time, another drillhole (EC90-1), located approximately 750 metres south-southwest of the Christine vein, yielded 1.0 gram per tonne gold over 0.6 metre from a 0.9-metre-wide quartz vein intersected at 131.3 metres down hole. The grey-white–coloured quartz vein contained fragments of intensely dolomite-altered volcanic wallrock, 1 per cent disseminated pyrite and trace amounts of tetrahedrite (Assessment Report 21548).

Work History

The area has been explored on conjunction with the nearby Erickson (MINFILE 104P 029) and a regional complete exploration history can be found there.

In 1990, Erickson Gold Mining completed a program of trenching, 13 diamond drill holes, totalling 1639.9 metres, an 18.0 line-kilometre ground electromagnetic survey and a 45.3 line-kilometre induced polarization survey on the Wildcat 13 and 15-16, AA, Kitt, GO and Bit claims.

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.

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.