The Pulley Alpine occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 1900 metres on a south east facing slope, approximately 3.6 kilometres north east of Mount Darling.

The area is underlain by mudstone, siltstone, shale and fine clastic sedimentary rocks of the Cambrian to Devonian Index Formation (Lardeau Group).

Locally, quartz-sulphide veins with 0 to 90 per cent galena, pyrite with lesser sphalerite, arsenopyrite and pyrrhotite have been identified in float and outcrop. The sulphides occur as fine to coarse grained disseminations and seams up to 10-centimetres thick on the flanks of quartz vein material. Unmineralized float in the immediate area of the samples is mostly limestone and black to graphitic phylllites. Another zone of mineralized float, referred to as the Pulley Lower zone, is located approximately 800 metres to the east- south east.

In 2008 and 2009, mineralized float samples from the Pulley Alpine zone yielded from 0.022 to 1.018 grams per tonne gold, 6 to 2776 grams per tonne silver, 0.01 to 72.69 per cent lead, 0.03 to 18.45 per cent zinc, trace to 0.298 per cent antimony and trace to 0.211 per cent tin, while mineralized float samples from the Pulley Lower area yielded from 0.003 to 0.129 gram per tonne gold, 37 to 1304 grams per tonne silver, 0.29 to 24.15 per cent lead, 0.02 to 23.36 per cent zinc, trace to 0.136 per cent antimony and trace to 0.163 per cent tin (Fingler, J. (2010-01-25): Technical Report on the Kootenay Arc Property).

In 2009, a 10-centimetre wide sample (930383) of massive sulphides from an outcrop hosting a 40-centimetre wide quartz-sulphide vein located at the contact of schist and limestone from the Pulley Alpine zone assayed 0.121 gram per tonne gold, 449 grams per tonne silver, 24.60 per cent lead, 1.30 per cent zinc, 0.021 per cent antimony and 0.025 per cent tin, while four other rock samples (930384 to 930387) from the area yielded from 0.217 to 0.477 gram per tonne gold, 28 to 449 grams per tonne silver, 0.40 to 64.03 per cent lead, 1.46 to 4.43 per cent zinc, 0.002 to 0.149 per cent antimony and 0.037 to 0.555 per cent tin (Fingler, J. (2010-01-25): Technical Report on the Kootenay Arc Property).

Work History

During 2006 through 2009, Mineral Mountain Resources Ltd. completed programs of prospecting, geochemical (soil, silt, talus fines and rock) sampling and an airborne geophysical survey on the area as the Kootenay Arc property.