The Basalt (Pit 2) occurrence is located in the northern head waters of Buck Creek.

The regional geology consists of two thick volcanic and sedimentary cycles. The first is the Triassic Vancouver Group, consisting of the Karmutsen volcanics, and the Parson Bay and Quatsino limestones. The second is the Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group volcanics. These packages are intruded

Locally, basalts show abundant disseminated pyrite and pyrrhotite, in concentrations of 2 to 3 per cent.

In 1995, Buck Creek Resources completed a program of prospecting, geological mapping and geochemical sampling. Grab sampling returned values of up to 6330 parts per million copper (Assessment Report 24534).