The Jackhammer showing is located south of Coffee Creek, approximately 4.9 kilometres west of Kootenay Bay. The claims were staked in 1989 and added to over the next three years as more sulphide zones were discovered. In 1998-1999, seventeen short drill holes, less than 6.9 metres each, were completed. In the 2000’s, the Jackhammer claims were combined and explored in conjunction with the Queens Coffee group. In 2006-2007, a program of prospecting and geochemical sampling was performed.

The area is underlain by hornblende schists, limestone and banded quartzite of the Mississippian to Lower Permian Milford Group.

Locally, a carbonaceous quartz mineralized zone cuts through limestone of the Ainsworth Formation. The main sulphide zone is in a solidified and brecciated mineralized zone, over 30 metres wide at the surface and standing between 65 degrees and 85 degrees dipping southwest and striking between 40 degrees and 45 degrees west. The zone carries zinc, lead and silver sulphides at or near the foot wall on the, north east side of the zone.

In 1998, drilling (98-01) intercepted 3.3 metres of zinc and lead mineralization, to 3.4 per cent (Assessment Report 26059).

In 1999, drilling and trenching identified three zinc- lead veins from 0.45 to 0.75 metres wide, striking northwest and parallel to the main quartz zone. A sample of the trench, from this year, returned 120 parts per billion gold, 22 parts per million silver, 640 parts per million cadmium, 802 parts per million lead and 76,100 parts per million zinc (Assessment Report 26059).