The Holt East occurrence is located on the western side of Holt Creek, approximately 3.5 kilometres north west of Wild Deer Lake.

The claims are underlain by Paleozoic Sicker and Buttle Lake groups volcanics and sediments exposed in a northwesterly trending syncline. The basal Devonian Nitinat Formation (Sicker Group) forms a sequence of volcanics, volcaniclastics and minor sediments which have undergone pervasive epidotization. Overlying these are pillowed, amygdaloidal and massive basalts which are correlated with the Nitinat to Fourth Lake formations transition (possibly Duck Lake Formation (Sicker Group)). Epidotization and hematization are common with minor malachite along fractures. The basalt is overlain by bedded jasper, chert and argillite with minor limestone. The jasper is commonly crosscut by quartz veinlets hosting pyrite, chalcopyrite, and magnetite. The matrix commonly hosts specularite. The Mississippian to Pennsylvanian Fourth Lake Formation (Buttle Lake Group) overlies the Nitinat rocks and is comprised of well-bedded chert and tuff.

These Paleozoic rocks are intruded by diorite of the Early to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite (formerly Island Intrusions) and a series of diabase dykes related to the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation, Vancouver Group. Epidote veining, as well as quartz veining hosting chalcopyrite and pyrite with some malachite, accompany the epidotization. Skarnification of layered tuffs adjacent to the intrusive is common.

Locally, disseminated to blebby chalcopyrite occurs in patches for 3.0 metres along a 30 centimetre wide shear zone trending northwest and dipping steeply west. The shear occurs in massive mafic volcanics of the Sicker Group exposed along a stream-cut. A sample (4454) assayed 3.16 per cent copper, 0.49 grams per tonne gold, 10.4 grams per tonne silver and 0.022 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 16059).

Also in the area, lenses of jasper in the pillowed basalt host pyrite and rarely chalcopyrite. A chalcopyrite-bearing jasper lens in a road-cut assayed 1.36 per cent copper and 0.17 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 16059). The lens occurs in epidotized mafic volcanic rocks where malachite is common along fractures.

Work History

In 1987, Nexus and Goldenrod resources completed a program of geochemical sampling and geological mapping on the Holt 1-15 claims. In 2006, D. Herriott completed a program of prospecting on the area as the Silver Nugget claims. In 2018, Island Time Exploration Ltd. completed a program of geological mapping, prospecting, geochemical (soil, silt and rock) sampling and an airborne magnetometer survey on the area as the Holt property.