The MRW (Wolf No. 6, 9-10) occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 1500 metres on a south-southwest–facing slope, north of Redding Creek and approximately 4.0 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, on the Wolf No. 6 claim, a mica schist hosts a 0.10-metre wide pyrite vein with minor tungsten values. Approximately 450 metres to the southeast on the former Wolf No. 10 claim, an undescribed rock outcrop hosts a 5-centimetre wide quartz vein with bismuth values, whereas approximately 300 metres to the southwest of the No. 6 claim zone, on the former Wolf No. 9 claim, an undescribed outcrop hosts a 0.6-metre-wide quartz vein with disseminated molybdenite and pyrite.
Work in 2007 identified a quartz monzonite body contains a high amount of biotite, pyrtite, limonite and minor garnet intruding into Middle Aldridge Formation wackes that are hornfelsed over a broad area. The granite is exposed for an area of approximately 100 by 50 metres on a steep cliffy hillside and sticks out, flanked by hornfels and a pyrite-rich gabbro. Crystalline vuggy quartz veins containing molybdenite mineralization, pyrite, limonite, galena and boulangerite are networked throughout the intrusion, the sediments and the gabbro. Greisen alteration (massive sericite/muscovite/biotite) along the margins of the quartz veins pervades the intrusion and gabbro and hosts mineralization. Vein density is very strong with mineralized veins being greater than 1 metre wide. Veining in the hornfels is also mostly crystalline-, sericite- and pyrite-rich quartz that contains molybdenite and galena. Quartz vein orientations are highly variable but structure (cleavage and brecciation) in the sediments and gabbro have a north-northeast trend and are possibly related to the Hall Lake fault system. This zone roughly correlates to the zone previously described on the Wolf No. 6 claim.
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. A rock sample (GJ1010) from the Wolf No. 10 claim assayed 0.39 per cent lead, 0.49 per cent bismuth and 100.0 grams per tonne silver, a rock sample (GJ1009) from the Wolf No. 9 claim yielded 2.90 per cent molybdenum, 0.05 per cent antimony and 0.019 per cent tungsten and a rock sample (GJ1008) from the Wolf No. 6 claim assayed 0.05 per cent bismuth with 0.12 per cent tungsten (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 on the Red Wolf property. In 1998, the area immediately southeast was prospected by Sedex Mining Corp. as the Red property.
In 2007, the area was prospected by Kootenay Gold Inc. as the MRW claim. Three samples (RS-3 to -5) from greisen zones with molybdenite, bismuth-lead sulphides and pyrite-rich veins yielded from 0.018 to greater than 0.200 per cent molybdenum and 0.001 to greater than 0.010 per cent tungsten, and a nearby sample (RS-10) of griessen vein with molybdenite assayed 0.015 per cent molybdenite, 0.20 per cent lead, greater than 0.20 per cent bismuth and 35.0 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 30298).
In 2009, Kootenay Gold Inc. conducted a program of prospecting and rock sampling on the area as the Red Lobster property. A float sample (SK09-26) of angular albite-quartz breccia, collected approximately 1 kilometre to the east-southeast, yielded anomalous values of lanthanum (163.9 parts per million) and cesium (299.0 parts per million; Assessment Report 31587).
In 2010, Kootenay Gold Inc. conducted a further program of rock sampling on 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 by Darlene Lavoie on the area immediately south as the RD claims. In 2019, a further program of prospecting was conducted by Craig Kenedy on the Red Lobster property.
