The Wilson occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 1130 metres on a north-northwest–facing slope, approximately 1.7 kilometres south-southeast of the southeast end of Hanson Lake.

Regionally, the area is underlain by granitic intrusive rocks of the Middle to Upper Jurassic Francois Lake phase and granodioritic rocks of the Lower Cretaceous Hanson Lake phase, both of the Endako Batholith.

Locally, a quartz monzonite is locally mineralized with molybdenite and minor pyrite and chalcopyrite in quartz veins and as thin fracture fillings. The veins, which form a poorly developed stockwork, are normally less than approximately 6 millimetres wide. Alteration is characterized by weak kaolinitization and local sericitization.

In 1992, a sample (BA92-H2) from the area of the Wilson zone yielded 18.1 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 22499).

In 2014, a grab sample (27873) of quartz monzonite subcrop from the Wilson zone yielded 0.044 per cent molybdenum, 0.120 per cent zinc and 10.6 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 34832).

In 2015, an area of anomalous to high-grade copper-molybdenum mineralization containing up to 1.8 per cent copper and 1.4 per cent molybdenum, was identified in float and subcrop in the Wilson zone (Assessment Report 35776).

Work History

During the 1960s and 1970s, a regional stream sediment reconnaissance program was conducted in the Hanson Lake area by Endako Mines staff. Anomalous metals were found in streams draining into Hanson Lake from the north and south. A 2- by 9-kilometre, zinc-lead anomaly with locally high silver-copper and outlying areas of high copper-molybdenum was defined by soil sampling. Induced polarization and magnetic anomalies were tested by trenching and diamond drilling, which intersected subeconomic mineralization. The property was acquired by Placer Dome in the mid-1970s, and widely spaced diamond drilling was performed in 1977 and 1979 on monzonite targets south of Hanson Lake.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Cazador Explorations conducted geological mapping, rock sampling, geochemical and geophysical surveys and an extensive diamond-drilling program on the Hanson Lake property (MINFILE 093K 078).

In 2006, G.W. Kurz restaked the area and completed a small program of soil and stream sampling south of Hanson Lake. In 2010, the area was restaked by John Chapman and KGE Management Ltd.

During 2012 through 2015, the area was examined by Stone Ridge Exploration Corp. with programs of prospecting, soil, till and rock sampling; structural analysis and a 288 line-kilometre airborne ZTEM and aeromagnetic survey being completed.