The Sam 2 occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 1700 metres on the east side of a ridge, approximately 2.5 kilometres south of the eastern narrows of Toodoggone Lake.

The area is situated within a Mesozoic volcanic arc assemblage that lies along the eastern margin of the Intermontane Belt, a northwest-trending belt of Paleozoic to Neogene sediments, volcanics and intrusions bounded to the east by the Omineca Belt and to the west and southwest by the Sustut and Bowser basins.

Permian Asitka Group crystalline limestones are the oldest rocks exposed in the region. They are commonly in thrust contact with Upper Triassic Takla Group andesite flows and pyroclastic rocks. These Takla rocks have been intruded by plutons and other bodies of the mainly early Jurassic granodiorite to quartz monzonite Black Lake Suite and are in turn unconformably overlain by or faulted against Lower Jurassic calc-alkaline volcanics of the Toodoggone Formation (Hazelton Group).

The dominant structures in the area are steeply-dipping faults that define a prominent regional northwest structural fabric trending 140 to 170 degrees. In turn, high-angle, northeast-striking faults (approximately 060 degrees) appear to truncate and displace northwest-striking faults. Collectively these faults form a boundary for variably rotated and tilted blocks underlain by monoclinal strata.

The occurrence area lies within a granodiorite stock of the Black Lake Suite near its contact with undivided volcanics of the Hazelton Group. Hazelton volcanics consist of grey, green and purple andesitic flow and pyroclastics of the Hazelton Group. Bedding strikes northwest and dips moderately to the northeast. Numerous pink feldspar porphyry dikes and sills are associated with the volcanics. Numerous other small granodiorite stocks and plugs crop out in the area.

Locally, a propylitic (chlorite-epidote) altered andesitic volcanic near a fault zone host a quartz vein with chalcopyrite mineralization. The vein strikes 280 degrees and dips 70 degrees.

In 2004, a chip sample (185947) of vein material assayed 0.03 gram per tonne gold, 26.4 grams per tonne silver, 0.368 per cent zinc and greater than 1.00 per cent copper over 2 metres, whereas a sample (185948) of quartz vein float, taken approximately 300 metres to the northwest yielded 0.137 gram per tonne gold and 0.497 per cent lead (Assessment Report 27734).

Work History

The area has been explored in conjunction with the nearby Gravy and Gravy East (MINFILES 094E 205 and 094E 206) occurrences and a completed regional exploration history can be found there.

In 2003 and 2004, Stealth Minerals Ltd. completed programs of geological mapping, rock sampling and a 22.5 line-kilometre airborne geophysical survey on the area as the Sam 1-4 claims.