The Abrahamson prospect is near the junction of North (Ferguson) Creek and South Lardeau Creek, near the community of Ferguson. The Abrahamson Group originally included the North Star, Crystal and Queen of the Hills tenures. The tenures were worked in the early 1890s; however, their precise location is uncertain.
The Florence prospect is at approximately 1350 metres elevation on the east side of Six-Mile Creek, which drains the lower slope of Nettie L. Mountain into Lardeau Creek. The Florence (L.7051) claim was most likely part of the "Union Jack Group", along with the Union Jack (L.7049) and Jumbo (L.7052) claims in the late 1890s. However, by 1905, it was part of a tenure cluster that also included the Glooscap (L.7257), Glooscap No. 2 (L.7258), Glooscap No. 3 (L.7259), Pilot (L.7050), Pilot Fraction (L.7254), Rattler (L.7048), Rattler No. 1 (L.7251) and Reward Fraction (L.7255). The claims were of interest because they may straddle the projection of the structure that controls the mineralization at Ajax [082KNW099] and Nettie L. [082KNW100].
In 1905, Reward Gold and Silver Mining Company Limited acquired the "Florence Group" of over twenty tenures and started to drive a crosscut to intersect the structure that hosts the Nettie L. mine at considerable depth below surface. In particular, it was looking for the "porphyry dyke" that marks the structure. It is not clear where the adit was collared; however, the intention was to drive it for 1000 metres and it was, in fact, driven for at least 320 metres. In 1917, the Florence "mine" was one of 20 claims included in the "Reward Group", which was then held by the Minnesota Gold and Silver Mining Company. From this, it seems likely that Reward's adit was collared on the Florence claim. Minnesota Gold did some additional development and metallurgical work on what was described as a "milling proposition". At the time, there were reported to be two adits on the property. However, reports written in the 1980s and 1990s fail to mention them.
In the early 1980s, Westmin Resources Limited conducted stream and soil geochemical surveys to the north and west of Lardeau Creek and identified several geochemical anomalies on the lower slopes of Nettie L. Mountain. In 1986, Camfrey Resources Limited followed up some of these anomalies and located the "Jumbo" zone on the Jumbo claim, west of Six-Mile Creek. The following year, it trenched the anomaly. At the same time Nortran Resources Limited and Mulitplex Resources Limited, who also had interests in the area, flew an airborne geophysical survey that including the nearby True Fissure [082KNW030] and Nettie L. [082KNW100] deposits, and located a cluster of encouraging electromagnetic responses. In 1993, Contiki Resources Limited acquired the Jumbo area and also took out an option to acquire 80 percent of Nortran's interest in the Florence and other nearby claims. In 1994, the company completed more grid work on the Jumbo claim and, in 1997, Vision Incorporated resampled a wider area, including the Florence tenure, using a soil auger. 
The Florence claim is underlain by isoclinally folded and variably schistose siliceous argillite of the Triune Formation, quartzite of the Ajax Formation and siliceous argillite of the overlying Sharon Creek Formation. The rocks strike to the northwest and dip moderately to steeply to the southwest. There is no specific information available on the geology of the Florence vein area, or of the contents of the workings. 

Florence (Reward) Target Highlights