The Galena showing is located on the east side of Frances Bay (formerly Fanny Bay). The showing is at 152 metres elevation, half way down into the bay. This occurrence is along strike and across the bay from the Pewter showing (MINFILE 092K 137). These two occurrences have identical settings and mineralization and are assumed to be on the same vein.

The area around Frances Bay is underlain by granodiorite and to a lesser extent quartz diorite of the Jurassic to Cretaceous Coast Plutonic Complex. What has been described as a shear vein system, or fissure vein, crosses the bay with a strike of 053 degrees and vertical dip. The vein is 2 to 3 metres in width, composed primarily of quartz with epidote and chlorite, and is contained within the granodiorite. On the west side of the bay, four small, partly assimilated inclusions and/or screens of metasediments and meta- volcanic rocks have been noted. Mapping by the Geological Survey of Canada identified malachite on the east side of the bay (Geological Survey of Canada Open File 480).

Mineralization is found within the quartz in the shear. Small veinlets crisscross the shear and contain disseminations as well as blebs of sphalerite, galena and pyrite. A selected sample from an open cut in 1916 assayed 19.5 per cent zinc, 16.0 per cent lead, 41.36 grams per tonne silver and trace gold and antimony. Other samples taken in 1916 showed trace amounts of copper (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1916, page 349).

Later work, in 2011, reports chalcopyrite, bornite and pyrite mineralization associated with quartz vein stockworks at the main ‘beach’ occurrence and three additional areas of malachite stained outcrop. A grab sample (1822) of malachite- stained granodiorite with disseminated pyrite and chalcopyrite assayed 0.105 per cent copper (Assessment Report 32784).

Work History

In 1984, Iron River Resources completed a program of rock sampling and geological mapping on the area as the Pewter claims. In 2011, the area was prospected by G.N. Goodall.