The DAUNTLESS polymetallic vein is located 100 metres southeast of Mowson Pond, on the north side of Carpenter Lake, approximately 9 kilometres northeast of Gold Bridge, B.C. The showing is approximately 1 kilometre north of the former producer Minto Mine.

The vein is hosted by Mississippian to Jurassic Bridge River Complex sedimentary and volcanic rocks which consist of chert, cherty argillite, quartzite, breccia and andesitic to basaltic greenstone. The rocks strike northwest, dip southwest and are intruded by north trending, 3 to 30-metres wide, Cretaceous and/or Tertiary feldspar porphyry, quartz porphyry and felsic dikes. A coarse-grained feldspar porphyry dike cuts the sediments just west of the portal. Lenses of serpentinized ultramafic rocks occur along faults and fractures. A 3 to 5-metre wide shear zone (striking northeast and dipping steeply northwest) crosscuts black argillaceous chert and andesite with sharp slickensided contacts.

Fine-grained crystalline arsenopyrite is disseminated as rough bands in quartz-carbonate gangue and contains stibnite needles and fine-grained pyrite. Alteration is calcitic or dolomitic with associated sericite in siliceous rocks and ankeritic with mariposite in mafic wallrocks. An assay from the footwall across 1.52 metres of vein at the portal graded 22.3 grams per tonne gold and 5.14 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 11648). Another assay across 3.04 metres of combined footwall and hangingwall ran 12.6 grams per tonne gold and 3.43 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 11648). The values are consistent throughout the length of the vein.

Other minor showings of similar nature i.e., pyrite and sphalerite in quartz and calcite stringers, occur approximately 55 and 85 metres west of the Dauntless portal.

The Dauntless vein was discovered by Reward Mining Co. in an area of limited outcrop in 1935 and a 75 m long adit was driven. The sampled adit entrance assayed 6.9 grams per tonne over 1.28 metres. In 1965 San Doh Mines Ltd. resampled the vein and carried out trenching and diamond drilling. Ashcroft Resources Ltd. sampled and drilled three 1AX holes into the vein in 1974 and 1975. A rock sample (89075) collected over a 1.83 metre interval from a mineralized shear zone, approximately 4 metres above the portal, assayed 9.94 grams per tonne gold. Hole 75-1 intersected 3.66m of 5.72 grams per tonne gold. In 1983 Warstar Resources Inc. drilled 3 NQ diamond drill holes on the vein with best results being in Hole 83-1: 0.91 metres of 3.43 grams per tonne gold.

Avino Mines resampled the Dauntless vein in 1985 and established 3 trenches along its southern extension, resulting in 7.62 grams per tonne gold over 1.5 metres. Avino Mines and Resources Ltd. acquired the Minto property to the north of Carpenter Lake and the Olympic property south of the lake in 1987, and conducted programs of soil sampling, airborne VLF-EM and magnetometer survey, trenching and diamond drilling through to 2005 (Assessment Reports 16964, 17790, 18433, 27443, 28340). International Wayside Gold Mines Ltd. also drilled 7 BQ diamond drill holes on the Minto area in 1995 and 1996 (Assessment Report 24631).

In 2022, Wild West Gold Corp. conducted a drone magnetic survey and a reconnaissance MMI soil geochemical survey over their Gold Belt property surrounding the Dauntless showing to the west and north (Assessment Report 40793). In 2022 and 2023, Endurance Gold Corp. conducted prospecting and geochemical orientation and sampling surveys on their Olympic property, as part of their Reliance Gold project on the south side of Carpenter Lake. These surveys established parallel northwest trending targets across the Kelvin, Minto-Olympic and Enigma-Dauntless areas (Assessment Report 41676).