The CR showing is located on the bank of the Caycuse River (on the Hank claim) 23 kilometres southwest of the village of Caycuse. On the Caycuse River, copper mineralization was first observed in 1920.

The area is underlain by intermediate volcanic and minor intercalated impure carbonate rocks of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation, Vancouver Group. These have been intruded by diorite of the Early to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite. The Caycuse River is believed to be a major fault. The rocks, comprising basalt, limestone, marble, and diorite, are altered and sheared.

The skarns are primarily exposed on the north side of the Caycuse River and form an en echelon arrangement. Skarn occurs as pods and tabular vertical bodies, replacing impure limestone or volcanic rocks. The mineral assemblage comprises quartz and tremolite with lesser amounts of garnet, epidote, actinolite and ilvaite. Mineralization consisting of pyrite, chalcopyrite, magnetite and minor sphalerite occurs within massive irregular sulphide pods. Magnetite occurs ubiquitously in small amounts and iron oxides, malachite and azurite are common. Volcanic rocks are locally altered to a dark green massive and dense hornfels containing massive and disseminated pyrite and minor chalcopyrite in small lenses.

The CR zone strikes 75 degrees and the bedding dips 60 to 80 degrees north. The 12 metre thick zone occurs within the alteration halo of diorite. Rock chip samples, taken from the exposed sections of the CR zone, assayed a weighted average over 1.55 metres of 2.02 per cent copper, 0.045 per cent zinc, and 7.3 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 12618). Diorite, in the footwall limestone bed, contained an estimated 0.5 to 1 per cent disseminated copper in chalcopyrite over 1 metre (Assessment Report 11232).

A brecciated zone in a north trending fault, exposed in the north bank of the Caycuse River, was sampled and the highest assay was 0.17 grams per tonne gold and 62.32 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 12618).

The Cougar Creek or CC showing has been described as follows: "good grade chalcopyrite occurs in the limestone skarns over an area 120 metres long and 30 metres wide in narrow folded bands of limestone and tuff".