The Soo showing is located on the Soo River, 15 kilometres due north of Whistler, British Columbia.

The area occurs within a roof pendant of Lower Cretaceous Gambier Group volcanic and sedimentary rocks. The pendant is encompassed by granitic rock of the Jurassic to Cretaceous Coast Plutonic Complex.

Volcanic rocks of the area consist of dominantly andesite with dacite and rhyolitic and dacitic flow, flow breccia, tuff, lapilli tuff and agglomerate, which are strongly fractured and faulted. Local development of quartz-sericite schist occurs associated with shear zones cutting the roof pendant. Sedimentary rocks consist of shale, greywacke, quartzite, arkosic quartzite and chert. Contacts and bedding are rarely seen but where observed strike 310 to 320 degrees and dip 60 to 65 degrees northeast. Rhyolite and rhyodacite are locally strongly sheared and altered to quartz- sericite schists; occasionally accompanied by narrow quartz veinlets. Andesitic rocks are weakly to strongly propylitically altered to chlorite and epidote.

Mineralization consists of disseminated pyrite and minor amounts of chalcopyrite within narrow quartz-epidote stringers in the volcanics. Minor amounts of disseminated sphalerite have also been noted. The best assay obtained to date is from a 1.5-metre chip sample of pyritic rhyolitic tuff which assayed 0.146 gram per tonne gold and 0.9 gram per tonne silver (Assessment Report 17961). In 1991, drillhole S 91-1 intersected minor disseminated chalcopyrite in or adjacent to narrow quartz veinlets hosted in pyroclastic rocks. Drillhole S 91-2 intersected coarser volcanic breccia overlying andesitic tuff. No significant alteration or mineralization were observed.

Work History

The area was prospected by the Rainbow Syndicate in 1976 and 1977. In 1978, Riocanex explored the area. In the following year, M. Warshawski prospected in the area. Several copper-zinc-(cobalt) soil geochemistry anomalies were discovered.

In 1987, Decade International Development Ltd. optioned four claims staked by Warshawski and staked two additional claims. Geological, soil geochemical and geophysical surveys outlined a large copper-zinc- cobalt anomaly. In 1991, two diamond-drill holes were drilled to test part of this anomaly.

In 2016 and 2017, the area was examined by Delrey Metals Corp. as the Sunset property and programs of geological mapping, soil sampling and a magnetometer survey were completed.