The Cunning property is located 26 kilometres southeast of the town of Wells, on Cunningham Creek. Access is provided by Weldwood's 3100 logging road which bisects the property.

The showing area is underlain by northwest trending shale and slate of the Lower to (?) Upper Cambrian Dome Creek Formation (Cariboo Group), limestone of the Lower Cambrian Mural Formation (Cariboo Group), and mudstone and quartzite of the Cambrian-Mississippian Black Stuart Group.

Black shale-hosted lead-zinc mineralization occurs in outcrop along the 3100 logging road along Cunningham Creek. Rock sample C-6 of a thin hydrozincite stained black carbonaceous mudstone parallel to bedding analyzed 0.65 per cent lead and 0.37 per cent zinc across 0.3 metre (Assessment Report 20396).

The Cunning claims were staked in 1990 in response to anomalous lead and zinc soil contour samples taken during Cominco's 1989 Cariboo reconnaissance program. In 1990, Cominco completed geological mapping and rock and soil sampling.