The Bet 1 (BC-90-07) occurrence is located at an elevation of 725 metres on an east-facing slope overlooking the Barriere River, between Mack and Slate creeks.

Regionally, the area is underlain by mudstone, siltstone, shale, chert and fine clastic sedimentary rocks of the Mississippian Slate Creek unit and calc-alkaline volcanic rocks of the Devonian Skwaam Bay unit, both of the Eagle Bay Assemblage.

Locally, as defined by diamond drilling, a 0.20-metre thick section of semi-massive pyrite is hosted by cherty tuff and a 2.65-metre thick section of fracture-controlled chalcopyrite, sphalerite and galena is hosted by a chert breccia.

In 1990, drillhole BC-90-07, located on a previously identified induced polarization anomaly, yielded 0.10 and 0.25 per cent copper, 0.81 and 1.70 per cent lead, 0.96 and 2.51 per cent zinc, 5.4 and 7.8 grams per tonne silver with 0.244 and 0.106 gram per tonne gold over 1.00 metre of fracture-controlled mineralization and 0.20 metres of semi-passive pyrite mineralization, respectively (Assessment Report 21208).

Work History

During 1989 through 1991, Falconbridge Ltd. completed programs of geochemical (rock and soil) sampling, geological mapping, 97.7 line-kilometres of combined ground magnetic, electromagnetic and induced polarization surveys, trenching and at least nine diamond drill holes, totalling 2619.2 metres, on the Bluff, Bet, Mac, Raven, Rust and Percy claims.