The area around the headwaters of Azure River has claimed attention for several years due to the discovery of large bodies of auriferous quartz in metasedimentary rocks of the Shuswap Metamorphic Complex. Mineralization on the War Colt claim group is located on the east bank of the Azure River immediately south of the junction between the Azure River and War Colt Creek. The Summit (083D 004), Grizzley (083D 027) and Blue Ice (083D 003,025,026) showings all lie to the northwest.

The War Colt claim group lies near the contact between the Hadrynian upper Kaza Group and the stratigraphically overlying Isaac Formation of the Hadrynian Cariboo Group. The country rocks, striking 255 degrees, consist of massive quartzite, quartz pebble conglomerate, quartz-sericite schist, phyllite, argillite and limestone, of the Isaac Formation. Lithologies of the Hadrynian upper Kaza Group consist of quartzofeldspathic psammite, phyllite, slate and minor grit.

On the War Colt claims there are a number of exposures indicating intersecting veins. Massive quartz, 13.7 metres long by 3 metres wide is located approximately 183 metres eastward from the War Colt 1 (083D 013) showing. It has been exposed by some underground workings and by stripping over 7.6 metres. The massive quartz body trends 055 degrees.

The quartz is barren except for a 9-metre band along the northwest boundary and a shorter parallel band, 1 metre wide, extending from the center of the mass. Mineralization is not abundant but includes chalcopyrite, tetrahedrite, galena and lesser sphalerite. A sample of material from this showing assayed 28.8 grams per tonne gold, 301.7 grams per tonne silver, 2.9 per cent copper and 3.1 per cent lead (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1938). In 1923, a chip sample across the 7.6 metres stripped area assayed 12.34 grams per tonne gold and 34.28 grams per tonne silver (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1923).