The Real occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 800 metres, near the north bank of a small west-flowing tributary of the Turnagain River, approximately 7.5 kilometres northwest of Boreal Lake.

Regionally, the area lies in an area of moderately deformed upper Proterozoic and lower Paleozoic rocks of the Cassiar terrane, between the Northern Rocky Mountain Trench and Kechika dextral strike-slip faults (Geological Survey of Canada Maps 42-1962, 1712A, 1713A). Units include the Ingenika, Atan, Kechika, Road River and Sandpile groups.

The occurrence area is underlain by limestone, slate, siltstone and argillite of the Cambrian to Ordovician Kechika Group and dolomitic carbonate rocks of the Ordovician to Lower Devonian Sandpile Group.

Locally, massive pods, lenses and/or irregular bodies, up to 2.8 metres in thickness, of finely laminated, microcrystalline pyrite (up to 99 per cent) with rare, isolated flakes of chalcopyrite have been identified within sericite schist adjacent to black argillite. The massive sulphides generally trend 310 degrees with a dip of 55 degrees southwest. Narrow quartzite or chert beds occupy the same horizon as the sulphide bodies.

In 1995, a sample (PKWB 95-84) from a massive pyrite pod assayed 0.47 per cent lead and 23.7 grams per tonne silver, whereas other samples (PKWB 95-127 and -128), taken from narrow, massive sulphide pods, located approximately 1 kilometre to the east-southeast of the previous sample, yielded up to 0.211 per cent copper (Assessment Report 24740). The following year, resampling of the site that the previous year's sample PKWB 95-84 yielded 0.51 per cent lead, 0.28 per cent barium and 18.2 grams per tonne silver over a 1- by 1-metre area (Sample PK-Real 96-8; Assessment Report 24454 and 24740).

Work History

Old claim posts, of unknown age, referring to claims such as Hoof and Aquitaine were reported to have been identified in the occurrence area.

In 1995, Atna Resources identified the massive sulphide mineralization during a regional program of geological mapping and stream sediment sampling. The Real claims were staked in 1996 and a program of geological mapping, geochemical (rock and soil) sampling and minor hand trenching were completed.