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File Created: 28-Jan-2026 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  10-Mar-2026 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name WOLF NO. 14, REDD Mining Division Fort Steele
BCGS Map 082F069
Status Showing NTS Map 082F09W
Latitude 049º 38' 55'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 116º 23' 48'' Northing 5499736
Easting 543544
Commodities Zinc, Lead, Silver, Gold Deposit Types E14 : Sedimentary exhalative Zn-Pb-Ag
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The Wolf No. 14 occurrence is located along the Redding Creek canyon, approximately 3.9 kilometres southwest 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, a carbonate rock hosts bedded galena and chalcopyrite mineralization. This zone of mineralization may be related to the Redd 6 occurrence to the north.

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. In 1990, Cominco Ltd. conducted a further program of geological mapping and geochemical (rock and soil) sampling on the Redd 6 claim.

In 1993, the area was prospected and sampled by Gordon Johnstone as the Wolf claims. Two rock samples (GJ1001 and GJ1002) assayed 0.05 and 0.69 per cent zinc, 1 and 0.28 per cent lead, 326.3 and 9.3 grams per tonne silver with 0.03 and 0.22 gram per tonne gold, respectively (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 and 1998, Sedex Mining Corp. conducted programs of prospecting and geological mapping on the Red Wolf property.

In 2009 and 2010, Kootenay Gold Inc. conducted programs of prospecting and rock sampling on the area as the Red Lobster property.

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.

In 2014, a minor program of prospecting and rock sampling was performed on the Red Lobster property by Craig Kennedy. In 2016, a 1.1 line-kilometre electromagnetic survey was conducted on the area immediately south as the RD claims by Darlene Lavoie. In 2019, a further program of prospecting was conducted by Craig Kenedy on the Red Lobster property.

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