The Redd 6 (Wolf No. 2 or Cominco Shear) occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 1450 metres on a south-southwest–facing slope, north of Redding Creek and approximately 3.2 kilometres southeast of Mount Bonner.
Regionally, the area is underlain by undivided sedimentary rocks of the Mesoproterozoic Creston Formation and argillite, greywacke, wacke and conglomerate turbidites of the Mesoproterozoic Aldridge Formation, both of the Purcell Supergroup, that have been intruded, contemporaneously, by gabbro-diorite sills and dikes. Porphyritic quartz monzonite/granodiorite stocks intruded the package during the Upper Cretaceous. Structurally the area is cut by the Hall Lake fault, a west-dipping thrust fault with some north strike-slip movement. The area is cored by a zone of phylonitic/mylonitic metamorphism that is likely related to the Hall Lake fault.
Locally, galena and sphalerite mineralization is hosted in north-trending, steeply dipping faults and shear zones. Lead isotope studies indicate that the mineralization is Mesozoic. The zone of mineralization may be related to the Wolf No. 14 occurrence to the south.
Later work, in the 2000s, describes the mineralization as consisting of semi-massive red-brown sphalerite, galena, pyrrhotite, pyrite and chalcopyrite in foliated and deformed parallel bands, as disseminations and in crosscutting fractures and quartz veins associated with quartz and strong chlorite±sericite±albite alteration in Middle Aldridge quartzites and pelites.
Work History
In 1985, Cominco Ltd. conducted a program of prospecting, geological mapping, geochemical (rock and soil) sampling, trenching, 16.4 line-kilometres ground magnetic/electromagnetic surveys and a single diamond drill hole on the area as the Redd claims. The drillhole tested a geophysical anomaly in the Creston Formation, west of the occurrence, and intercepted bands of pyrrhotite and patchy magnetite.
In 1990, Cominco Ltd. conducted a further program of geological mapping and geochemical (rock and soil) sampling on the Redd 6 claim. A rock sample (IG-64) assayed 16.9 grams per tonne silver and greater than 1.00 per cent zinc and lead, each (Assessment Report 20706).
In 1993, the area was prospected and sampled by Gordon Johnstone as the Wolf claims. A rock sample (GI1007) of breccia hosting disseminated galena and pyrite assayed 1.31 per cent lead, 1.28 per cent zinc and 15.7 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 23161).
In 1994 and 1995, Otis J. Exploration Corp. conducted programs of geological mapping, soil sampling and a 4.5 line-kilometre ground magnetic and electromagnetic survey on the area as the Red Wolf property. In 1996, Sedex Mining Corp. conducted a program of geological mapping and a single diamond drill hole, totalling 155.0 metres, on the Red Wolf property.
In 2009, Kootenay Gold Inc. conducted a program of prospecting and rock sampling on the area as the Red Lobster property. A sample (SK019-15) of ankerite-altered breccia with sphalerite and galena mineralization from the occurrence area assayed 0.67 per cent zinc, greater than 1.00 per cent lead and 21.5 grams per tonne silver, and two samples (SK09-013 and -014) of narrow oxidized quartz veins, located approximately 450 metres to the northeast, yielded values of up to 0.18 per cent lead, 91.3 grams per tonne silver and greater than 0.01 per cent tungsten (Assessment Report 31587).
In 2010, Kootenay Gold Inc. conducted a further program of rock sampling on the Red Lobster property. Four samples (MK10-245, -247, -248 and -250) from the occurrence area yielded from 0.07 to 0.44 per cent lead, 0.006 to 0.016 per cent bismuth, trace to 0.009 per cent tungsten and 21.7 to 56.2 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 32161).
In 2011, Fjordland Exploration Inc. conducted a program of geochemical (rock and soil) sampling on the area as part of the regionally extensive St. Mary property. Six diamond drill holes, totalling 1548.7 metres, were completed on the Red Lobster area of the property. Drilling on the Cominco zone intersected two mineralized trends approximately 25 metres apart in an approximately 50-metre wide, steeply east dipping fault zone. Occasional sporadic narrow zones of lead-zinc mineralization were encountered outside of the main zone. Intercepts included 0.02 and 1.51 per cent lead with 3.21 and 3.28 per cent zinc over 0.25 and 0.42 metre (106.09 to 106.34 metres and 127.58 to 128.00 metres down hole) in hole RL11-02, respectively, and 0.41 per cent lead with 6.59 per cent zinc over 0.58 metre (244.30 to 244.88 metres down hole) in hole RL11-05 (Assessment Report 32893).
In 2014, 2019 and 2023, minor programs of prospecting and rock sampling were performed on the Red property by Craig Kennedy.
