The 2XFred East occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 910 metres on a low ridge, east of Stoney Creek and approximately 4.8 kilometres east-southeast of Welch Lake.

The area occurs within the Intermontane Belt, underlain dominantly by Lower to Middle Jurassic volcanic and sedimentary rocks of the Hazelton Group. These assemblages are overlain by felsic and andesitic volcanic rocks of the Eocene to Oligocene Ootsa Lake Formation (Nechako Plateau Group) and basalt volcanic rocks and sedimentary rocks of the Miocene Chilcotin Group. Intruding Lower Jurassic rocks of the Hazelton Group in the northeastern part of the map sheet is a belt of granodiorite, diorite and quartz diorite plutons of the Lower Jurassic Topley Intrusive Suite. Felsic plutons, probably Cretaceous, intrude both Lower and Middle Jurassic Hazelton strata.

Locally, shallow-dipping, banded to chalcedonic (epithermal) quartz veins, stockworks and hydrothermal breccias are hosted in silicified and argillic-altered basalts and andesites. Common alteration minerals include hematite, limonite, jarosite, clay, chlorite, epidote, carbonate, manganese, zeolite, specularite, magnetite and pyrite.

In 2012, a rock sample (SK12-69) yielded 0.749 gram per tonne gold and 3.1 grams per tonne silver, whereas other outcrop and large boulder float samples, taken from a small hill approximately 1.5 kilometres to the west yielded from 0.180 to 1.781 grams per tonne gold and 3.2 to 11.8 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 33436).

Work History

During 2011 through 2020, Kootenay Silver Inc. completed programs of prospecting, geological mapping, geochemical (rock, soil and biogeochemical sampling), trenching, 82.3 line-kilometres of ground magnetic and electromagnetic surveys and 13 diamond drill holes, totalling 1627.9 metres, on the area as the 2XFred property.