The Highland South Copper (Northern Discovery) occurrence is located on a west-southwest facing slope over looking Stoyoma Creek at an elevation of approximately 1000 metres.

The area is underlain by Cretaceous aged pelitic sediments assigned to the Pasayten Group, which may be a non-marine facies equivalent of the upper part of the Jackass Mountain Group. The former group comprises sandstone, conglomerate, argillite and minor tuff occurring in a north-northwest trending belt extending across the entire 92H map area. These rocks are bound to the west by the Chuwanten fault and sediments belonging to the Jurassic Dewdney Creek Formation of the Ladner Group and to the east by the Pasayten fault and plutonic rocks of the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous Eagle Plutonic Complex. Local Early Tertiary stocks of intermediate composition intrude the sediments.

Locally, a feldspar porphyry intrusive hosts azurite and malachite mineralization.

In 2012, seven rock samples collected from the materialized exposure yielded values up to 19.0 grams per tonne silver, 0.665 per cent copper, 0.229 per cent lead and greater than 1.0 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 33780).

Work History

In 2012, Natan Resources completed a program of rock, silt and soil sampling on the area as the Highland South Copper property.

In 2016, a program of prospecting and rock sampling was completed on the area as the Russell property. In 2018, a program of soil sampling was completed.