The Crusader Gold Property is located on NTS map sheet 082F074 about 20 kilometers east of Hwy 6 N and Lemon Creek Forest Service Rd., and 29 kilometers south and east of Slocan, B.C. The property is road accessible. Follow Lemon Creek Forest Service Rd. east from BC Highway 6N for 18 km. to Crusader Creek Rd. and follow for 5 km. Turn left to go up the Branch #3 Rd to the Golden Wedge / Gold Reef area. To go to the top of Crusader Flats travel further north on Crusader Creek Rd. until it turns west. and follow it for 3 or 4 km. to a left branching road that goes to Crusader Flat at 2,000 m. The Independence and Boulder Mines occur there.

In the geological and mineralization history, Mesozoic and early Tertiary granitic rocks older than about 60 million years were intruded during compression, which forms part of the Nelson batholith granites. The claims are underlain by granodiorite, porphyritic granite and a finer grained greenish-grey granite, cut by quartz, lamprophyre, alaskite and pegmatite dykes (some pyritized).

There are several old workings and adits on the property. The Golden Wedge mine site was in operation by at least 1997 with 12 men working at taking out some rich ore. This property was promoted by the ex-finance minister of Canada, G. E. Foster. A 10-stamp mill and townsite called Ora was established to handle the ore from this mine. The ore was taken from drifts on the main quartz vein, a vein that was reported to have been traced on surface for over a mile. The main commodity in the vein structure was free gold, with values of around 4 ounces / ton Au. There is abundant sericite alteration in the walls of the quartz veins. Tellurides were reported to be present. The “dry ore” (free milling gold) quartz veins were reported to carry values in gold and silver associated with iron pyrites, silver sulfides, and sometimes free gold and silver. The Gold Reef 2 quartz vein measures 2.5 – 3.5 meters wide and is associated with iron pyrites, galena and free gold. This claim was originally worked at the turn of the century and again in 1922 and 1968.

The biggest of at least 10 former producers close to the Golden Wedge property, the Alpine (3 miles southeast of the Golden Wedge), produced 11,413 ozs. of gold from 17,095 tons of ore”. Until recently little work had been done on the Golden Wedge since 1900, and little work had been done on the Gold Reef 2 since the late 1960’s.