The Furry prospect is located on or near Furry Creek, approximately 2.2 kilometres southwest of Bingham Lake and approximately 1.2 kilometres south east of the former Victoria pit of the Britannia (MINFILE 092GNW003) mine.
The Britannia district is underlain by a roof pendant of mid- Mesozoic volcanic and sedimentary rocks, within the Cenozoic to Mesozoic Coast Plutonic Complex. A broad, steeply south- dipping zone of complex shear deformation and metamorphism called the Britannia shear zone, crosses the pendant in a northwest direction. The Indian River shear zone, a narrow zone of foliated rocks, is sub-parallel to the Britannia shear zone and transects the northeast part of the Britannia pendant. The deformed rocks are cut by dacite dikes and several major sets of faults. The Britannia roof pendant is one of many northwest- trending bodies within and in part metamorphosed by the Coast Plutonic Complex. The pendant is comprised of fresh to weakly metamorphosed rocks with sharp contacts against plutonic rocks, and belongs to the Lower Cretaceous Gambier Group. The Coast plutonic rocks consist of older, commonly foliated bodies ranging from diorite to granodiorite and younger quartz diorite to quartz monzonite intrusions (Squamish pluton). The plutonic rocks have produced contact metamorphic aureoles up to 100 metres wide in the Britannia pendant.
The occurrence area is underlain by a complicated interbedded succession of northwest- trending andesitic to dacitic pyroclastic rocks of the Gambier Group, which dip from 30 to 80 degrees south. The volcanic units are typically strongly sericitized and chloritized resulting in a well-developed schistosity. A complex succession of intercalated dacitic pyroclastics and rhyolite to dacite flows has been identified by diamond drilling. The stratigraphy is interpreted to be a felsic vent area, based on the observed thickening of the massive lower dacite flow/dome, a quartz feldspar porphyritic unit. The stratigraphy encountered in drill holes is composed of andesite, an upper dacite flow, dacite tuff breccia, dacite ash and lapilli tuffs, a lower dacite flow (quartz feldspar porphyry) and lower dacite ash tuffs.
Locally, the Britannia shear zone has been exposed and consists of hanging wall silicified fragmented tuffs and sheared sericitic foot wall rocks. Mineralization consists of disseminated to massive magnetite with lesser chalcopyrite, sphalerite, pyrite and minor galena occurring as fractures cutting the zone. Gangue minerals consist of quartz and chlorite.
Diamond drilling on the area has intersected zones of pyrite, chalcopyrite and anhydrite within a larger zone of sphalerite mineralized cherty tuffs, yielding up to 1.49 per cent copper or zinc over 15.5 metres and 2.39 per cent copper or zinc over 1.8 metres (Property File - C. M. Burge [1988-09-23]: Fall Drill Program at Fleck Britannia).
In 1952, sampling of magnetite, from a zone 26 metres long and 1.5 wide on the south east corner of the Hunter’s Best Crown grant, yielded 22.0 per cent iron over 4.5 metres (J. B. Thurber [1952-10-01]: Progress report on the Eastern Area of Britannia). The following year, samples yielded up to 0.10 per cent copper, 0.10 per cent zinc and 14.7 per cent iron (Property File - G. D. Markland [1953-01-01]: Progress Report on Eastern Area of Britannia 1953).
Diamond drilling, in 1972 and 1973, is reported to have outlined an indicated resource of 272,155 tonnes averaging approximately 1 per cent copper (Property File - A. J. Davidson [1983-09-16]: Summary of Britannia properties).
The area has been historically explored in conjunction with the nearby Britannia (MINFILE 092GNW003) mine. Past exploration programs on the area include diamond drilling and three tunnels or adits, the first located near the eastern border of the Hunter‘s Best Crown grant and the other two located on the Charmer Crown grant to the north, on the east and west sides of Cyrtina Creek. In 1972 and 1973, Anaconda performed a program of diamond drilling, totalling 11,052.2 metres in 31 holes, on the Furry Creek area. During 1984 through 1989, Minnova and Fleck Resources completed programs of geological mapping, rock sampling, electromagnetic surveys and 25 diamond drill holes, totalling 4735.6 metres, on the area as part of the Fleck Option.
