The SOUTH FINLAY showing is located in the Omineca Mountains, 1 kilometre north of the Finlay River and 3.4 kilometres west-northwest of the Pine prospect (094E 016) and 115 kilometres northwest of the community of Tsay Keh Dene at the north end of Williston Lake.

The South Finlay area is underlain by volcanics and derived sediments of the Lower Jurassic Toodoggone Formation (Hazelton Group). These are intruded by multiphase granodiorite and quartz monzonite plutons of the Early Jurassic Black Lake Plutonic Suite.

The first documented exploration in the South Finlay area was a soil sampling survey by Kenco Explorations Ltd. in 1969, reporting weakly anomalous levels for copper, molybdenum, zinc and lead (Assessment Report 2035). Considerable exploration on the large Pine property has been ongoing since then. Amarc Resources' South Finlay target is centered on a 3.1 square kilometre induced polarization (IP) chargeability anomaly hosting internal magnetic highs and lows and is largely covered by transported glacial overburden.

Amarc Resources Ltd. consolidated the Joy Project mineral tenure through a series of agreements concluded between 2017 and 2019, including the Ryan occurrence area. In 2019, Amarc gained a one-hundred per cent interest in the Pine property under agreements with Gold Fields and previously Cascadero (Press Release, Amarc Resources Ltd., Dec. 19. 2019).

From 2016 to 2024, Amarc completed exploration programs of historical core logging at Pine, Mex (094E 057) and Fin (094E 312), induced polarization and airborne magnetic surveys, prospecting, mapping, geochemical soil and rock sampling and diamond drilling over their Joy property, including their South Finlay target area.

In 2022, Amarc drilled 2 holes totaling 577 metres in their South Finlay, induced polarization chargeability target area. Hole JP22037, intersected 12 metres of 0.1 per cent copper, 0.06 gram per tonne gold and 2 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 40912). Drill hole JP 22037 intersected feldspar-phyric porphyry intrusions, whilst nearby drill hole JP22039 intersected medium-grained feldspar crowded ash flow tuffs of the Toodoggone Formation (Saunders Member). The 2023 exploration program had the goal of identifying and refining porphyry copper-gold deposit targets occurring in several previously identified target areas across the JOY project (Assessment Report 41856).

See Pine (094E 016) for further details and work history of the Pine/Joy property.