The Rabbit 2 (South Roper) occurrence is located near the southwestern end of Roper Lake, east of the Dominic Lake Forest Service Road.
The area is underlain by volcanics and minor intercalated sediments of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group intruded by a younger (possibly Tertiary) zoned quartz monzonite stock (Roper Lake stock). Intermediate to mafic dikes cut both the intrusion and Nicola rocks. The Roper Lake stock is a north west-trending, elliptically- shaped intrusion approximately 1600 metres long by approximately 800 metres wide. Geological and geophysical evidence suggests that the stock plunges steeply northeast. A north west-striking fault is postulated to be present east of the intrusion proper and an outlier of the stock occurs on the up-thrown side of this fault.
The bulk of the Nicola rocks consist of greenish grey, semi-porphyritic andesites and basalts. Near the Roper Lake stock, the Nicola rocks are baked to a hard, flinty, hornfelsic rock and pyrite is abundant. The composition of the Roper Lake stock approximates a quartz monzonite. A crude zoning was noted in the intrusion, with a core of quartz-eye porphyry grading outward to a medium- to fine- grained quartz monzonite, slightly porphyritic in part. Quartz veining of several generations is commonly seen throughout the stock; usually these veins are narrow (1 centimetre or less), although veins as wide as 25 centimetres are present.
Locally, a gossanous diorite(?) with quartz veining, up to 0.2-metre-wide, hosts pyrite and trace galena mineralization.
In 1990, a sample of (150853) sub-crop assayed 173.3 grams per tonne silver and 0.16 per cent lead (Assessment Report 21125).
The area has been historically prospected in conjunction with the nearby Roper Lake (MINFILE 092INE071) occurrence since the early 1960‘s. In 1990, Noranda Mining completed a program of rock and soil sampling and an 8.6 line-kilometre ground induced polarization survey on the area. In 1991, a program of rock, soil and biogeochemical sampling was completed on the area as the Rabbit claims. In 2001 and 2002, R. Bruaset completed programs of soil sampling and geological mapping on the area as the Golden Runner property. During 2005 through 2008, Global Hunter Corp. completed 29 diamond drill holes, totalling 7164.9 metres, on the area as the Rabbit South property.
