The Red 22 (Red Wolf South) occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 1550 metres on a northeast-facing slope, south of Redding Creek and approximately 3.8 kilometres northeast of the north end of Hall Lake.

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, as defined by drilling, a quartzite of the Middle Aldridge Formation hosts sphalerite and galena mineralization along fractures and bedding in a 6-metre wide fracture zone. Albite fractures and possible cobalt bloom and tourmaline are also reported in the fracture zone. The drillcore was lost prior to sampling, but visual estimates are reported to have indicated trace to 2 per cent combined lead-zinc (Assessment Report 24820).

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 immediately north 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. 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 1998, the area immediately northeast was prospected by Sedex Mining Corp. as the Red property.

In 2007, the area was prospected by Kootenay Gold Inc. as the MRW claim. 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 and 2019, minor programs of prospecting and rock sampling were performed on the Red Lobster property by Craig Kennedy.