The Ant East occurrence is located on a small hill, east of Carp Lake and approximately 9.5 kilometres west of the south end of McLeod Lake.

Regionally, the area is underlain by basaltic volcanic rocks of the Mississippian to Permian Antler Formation (Slide Mountain Group) and mudstone, siltstone, shale and fine clastic sedimentary rocks of the Triassic Takla Group.

Locally, an outcrop of pillowed basalt hosts a stockwork of 1- to 2-centimetre-wide quartz veins with minor pyrite.

In 1988, a rock sample (WR-30) assayed 0.54 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 18101).

Work History

In 1971, magnetometer and soil geochemistry surveys and 30 metres of hand trenching were completed on the Ant claims by AMAX Exploration Inc. A year later, 60 metres of bulldozer trenching was performed.

The 80-unit Opus 1-4 claim group staked by Cominco Ltd in 1987 was acquired to cover coincident magnetic and geochemical anomalies. Preliminary silt sampling in 1987 revealed two gold anomalies on the property. In 1988 Cominco conducted a geochemical and prospecting program collecting a total of 60 silts, 47 soils, 12 pan concentrates and 20 rock samples.

In 2006, a minor program of soil sampling and prospecting was completed on the Ant 1 claim (093J 004) by Peter Fox. In 2010, Triple Dragon Resources Inc. prospected and sampled the Ant property.

In 2020 and 2021, Golden Planet Mining Corp. completed a regionally extensive program of prospecting, geological mapping, geochemical (rock, till and soil) sampling and a 4851.0-line-kilometre airborne magnetic and electromagnetic survey on the area as the Rider property.