The Solyman-Freya showing is located on the western shore of Read Island. Mineralization consists of specks and small patches of chalcopyrite and pyrite disseminated throughout medium-grained grano- diorite of the Jurassic to Cretaceous Coast Plutonic Complex. Quartz and carbonate alteration, or enrichment, of the granodiorite has been noted in the area of the showing. Although there is some shearing within the granodiorite there does not appear to be any structural control of the mineralization. The sulphides are indiscriminately scattered as small patches ranging in size from 0.3 to 2.54 centi- metres.

A sample taken across 1.5 metres of an open cut at 40 metres elevation assayed 16 grams per tonne gold, 37.7 grams per tonne silver and 0.9 per cent copper (Stevenson, 1938).