The Amore showing is located on the Amore 2 claim 11 kilometres northwest of Youbou on Cowichan Lake.

The area is underlain by sedimentary and volcaniclastic rocks of the Mississippian to Pennsylvanian Fourth Lake Formation, Buttle Lake Group and basaltic rocks of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation, Vancouver Group. These have been intruded by rocks of the Early to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite.

The claim is underlain by chert, cherty argillite, cherty tuff, tuff and argillite of the Fourth Lake Formation in the northern portion and in the south by Karmutsen Formation volcanics intruded by diorite to quartz diorite. To the northeast of the claim, lenses of jasper a few metres thick dip steeply and strike north.

Mineralization occurs mainly in shears and quartz veins within cherty sediments in the northern portion of the claim. One sulphide- rich vein, 3 to 30 centimetres wide, lies in a shear zone in silicified and carbonatized rocks. Gold mineralization occurs with galena, sphalerite and arsenopyrite in quartz veins, stringers and lenses. Mineralization comprising pyrite, arsenopyrite, galena, molybdenite and chalcopyrite occurs as massive sulphide lenses and stringers in siliceous zones, quartz veins and altered tuffs. Mineralization appears to be structurally controlled.

The area was originally prospected in the 1910's and 1920's. The occurrence was re-discovered in 1977 by E. Specogna. The following year, a program of prospecting, drilling and trenching was completed. This work traced the sulphide-rich vein for over 30 metres. At this time a 1.8-tonne shipment of ore was sent to the Tacoma smelter (personal communication, Efrem Specogna, 2003) and produced approximately 685.6 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 7187).

In 1979, the claims were acquired by Aquarius Resources and a program of one diamond drill hole, totalling 10.9 metres, was completed near Summit Lake. From 1980 through 1984, Aquarius completed programs of geochemical sampling, geological mapping and a ground electromagnetic survey on the Amore claim. From 1985 through 1988, Canamin Resources completed programs of prospecting, geological mapping, rock, silt and soil geochemical sampling and a ground magnetic geophysical survey. Sampling on the northern portion of the claim yielded values up to 19.2 grams per tonne gold and 4.4 grams per tonne silver from a 2 metre chip sample of cherty argillite (Assessment Report 16227, Sample 18205).