The Dog is a minor occurrence of lead-zinc mineralization, situated on Dead Dog Creek, 19 kilometres east-northeast of Mount Sylvia in the Muskwa Ranges of the Northern Rocky Mountains, 62 kilometres south-southeast of the settlement of Summit Lake on the Alaska Highway (Assessment Report 4393, Map 2).

The area around the Dog group of claims is underlain mainly by folded and thrust-faulted Devonian sedimentary rocks belonging to Ancestral North America (Geological Survey of Canada Map 1713A). The main units, which strike north-northwest, are dolostone of the Middle Devonian Stone Formation, limestone of the Middle Devonian Dunedin Formation and black shale of the Middle Devonian to Mississippian Besa River Formation (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 373, Map 1343A).

The available information concentrates on minor lead and zinc soil anomalies, with few details on the geology (Assessment Reports 4202, 4393; Geology, Exploration and Mining in British Columbia 1972, 1973). Irregular pods of generally low-grade sphalerite and galena occur locally in gently dipping, brecciated limestone of the Dunedin Formation.

Work History

In 1973, Cominco Ltd. completed a program of soil sampling on the area as the Dog claims.