The Climax occurrence is mapped as being located on a steep northeast slope south of the Nomash River and near the border of the Black Knight 4 and 6 Crown grants, approximately 1.5 kilometres southeast of the junction of the Zeballos and Nomash rivers.

Regionally, the area is underlain by Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group basaltic to rhyolitic volcanic rocks. Conformably underlying the Bonanza volcanic rocks are limestones and limy clastics of the Triassic to Lower Jurassic Parson Bay Formation (Bonanza and Vancouver groups) and Upper Triassic Quatsino Formation (Vancouver Group), and tholeiitic basalts of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group). Dioritic to granodioritic plutons of the Zeballos intrusion phase of the Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite have intruded all older rocks. The Zeballos stock, a quartz diorite phase of the Eocene to Oligocene Mount Washington Plutonic Suite, is spatially related to gold-quartz veining in the area. Bedded rocks are predominantly northwest striking, southwest dipping, and anticlinally folded about a northwest axis.

Locally, lenses of chalcopyrite and garnet and a 10-centimetre vein striking 350 degrees and dipping 76 degrees west are reported near the contact of Quatsino Formation limestone and granodiorite of the Island Plutonic Suite. The vein is reported to carry allemontite (antimony-arsenide).

In 1966, diamond drilling is reported to have intersected chalcopyrite, bornite and pyrite mineralization (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1966, page 74).

In 1989, a rock sample with no number, description or location information assayed 34.6 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 18631). This sample could have been a float sample or related to the nearby Central Zeballos (MINFILE 092L 212) past-producing mine.

Work History

The area has been historically explored in conjunction with the nearby Central Zeballos (MINIFLE 092L 212) occurrence since the 1930s. In 1989, Golden Quadrant Resources completed a program of prospecting, sampling (rock and silt) and 12.8 line-kilometres of ground electromagnetic and magnetic surveys on the area. In 2019, Paul Hoogendoorn completed a minor program of prospecting and geochemical (rock and soil) sampling on the area as the Santa Barbara property.