The Enigma property straddles Wilson Creek, approximately 4.5 kilometres east of the community of Hills. The property was originally explored in the 2000’s by prospector T. Kennedy and later optioned by Kootenay Gold Inc. In 2008, RIT Minerals Corp. was engaged to undertake a geological evaluation of the property.
Regionally, the property is dominated by a succession of carbonaceous mudstone, sandstone and limestone of the Upper Triassic and Lower Jurassic Slocan Group.
Locally, the area is underlain by an east-west trending, steeply north dipping homoclinal succession of carbonaceous mudstone and siltstone, and carbonaceous limestone intruded by thin, less than 0.20 metre, to relatively thick, greater than 10 metres, homogeneous sill-like units of augite or hornblende porphyry, diabase, and hard, flinty pyrrhotite-bearing rock that may be fine sill material or, alternatively, altered (hornfels) country rock.
Mineralization consists of pyrrhotite, pyrite, chalcopyrite and sphalerite massive sulphide lenses in mudstone breccia. At least two mineralized localities, within a 70 to 300 metre thick stratabound succession, are known to occur on the property.
During 2008, the best result was from sample ESK08-10, which returned values of 1489 parts per billion gold, 454 parts per million copper, 436 parts per million lead and 2,295 parts per million zinc (Assessment Report 30210).