The Tom 3 showing is located near the headwaters of Whitewater Creek, approximately 3 kilometres southwest of Whitewater Mountain. New Denver, British Columbia lies some 19 kilometres to the southwest.

The main lithologies of the area are assigned to the Permian Kaslo Group, consisting of andesite flows and pyroclastics (greenstone), and tuffaceous sediments. Volcanics are extensively chlorite altered and schistose. Sediments and volcanics have been locally intruded by diorite and feldspar porphyry dikes and sills. Serpentinite is the most extensive rock type exposed in this area, forming northwesterly trending bands with steep southwest dips and extending up to 750 metres in width. Talc and asbestos are common alteration minerals associated with this serpentinite unit. The contact between the serpentinite and surrounding lithologies is faulted. The surface trace of this fault can be traced for several kilometres. Underground this fault is marked by a heavy talc gouge. Intense local metamorphism has locally formed chlorite biotite schist in the Kaslo Group. Foliation is parallel with the trend of the neighbouring serpentinite body.

Copper is known to occur in chlorite biotite schist, restricted to areas where shears or faults intersect the serpentinite. The Tom 3 showing comprises one such occurrence. A 33-metre chip sample of this material along strike of the copper zone yielded assay values of 1.86 per cent copper (Assessment Report 3926).

Work History

In 2020, Traction Exploration Inc. completed a program of geological mapping and rock sampling on the area as the Whitewater property.