The Shushartie Mountain NE occurrence is located an elevation of approximately 475 metres on the northeast slope of Shushartie Mountain, approximately 1.5 kilometres southwest of the southeast end of Shushartie Lake.

The area is underlain by tholeiitic basalt and homogeneous basic sheet flows of the Triassic Karmutsen Formation. Minor amounts of pyroclastic rocks and metasediments have also been reported.

Locally, fracture/sheared and altered light-green to green aphanitic basalts with quartz-filled amygdules host minor malachite, chalcopyrite and blebs of bornite.

Work History

In 1990, the King claims were staked by Transtel Communications and programs of prospecting, geological mapping and geochemical sampling were completed over the following two years. During 1993 through 1995, Westward Explorations completed programs of geological mapping, prospecting, geochemical sampling, magnetic and very low frequency electromagnetic surveys and trenching.

In 2019, Xplore Resource Corp. completed a program of prospecting and geochemical (rock, soil and stream sediment) sampling on the area as part of the Valk property. Two outcrop grab samples (3267422 and 3267424) yielded values of up to 0.380 per cent copper and 0.675 gram per tonne gold (Xplore Resources Corp. [2019-11-04]: Technical Report on the Valk Property, Northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada).