GEOLOGICAL PROFILE

SHEAR ZONE OPEN TO THE NORTH, SOUTH AND AT DEPTH TO THE WEST

  • Oldest rocks in the region are Proterozoic to mid Paleozoic rocks assigned to the pericratonic Shuswap metamorphic complex. These rocks occur in a north trending belt east of Okanagan Lake and extend north past Shuswap Lake
  • In fault contact with the Shuswap rocks are late Paleozoic sedimentary and volcanic rocks assigned to a pre-Nicola Group island arc assemblage termed the Harper Ranch Group. These rocks occur in a 35 by 10 km EW trending band extending from SW of Cherryville to the east
  • Top Shear Zone
    • Based on trenching and drilling information, has been traced for 170 metres
    • Appears to vary from NNE trending and steeply west dipping at higher elevations to <30 degrees West dipping at depth with the horizontal width increasing with depth from <1m to >10m
    • Interpretably been offset by east-west and north-south faults with local west side up displacement
    • Shear zone and associated spatially concentrated mineralization is open to the north, south and at depth to the west
  • The known high grade Top 1 Gold Zone is a <10m (in radius) west plunging body extending from ‘trench 2’ within a large, similarly oriented apparently deformed, variably altered and mineralized intermediate Tertiary dyke inside the Top shear