The Red 61 occurrence is located along the eastern edge of the extensive Cambria Icefield, overlooking the headwaters of South Willoughby Creek, about 27 kilometres east of Stewart.
The showing area is underlain by Middle-Upper Jurassic Hazelton Group volcanics. Reconnaissance rock sampling on the Red 61 claim led to the discovery of a number of copper-bearing zones in maroon andesitic volcanics. The shear hosted, carbonate-altered zones vary from less than 1 metre to 5 metres in width and can persist for several hundred metres along strike. Mineralization includes malachite, azurite and chalcopyrite and in certain places, galena.
The principal zone, called the Red Dog, was interval sampled at three locations and yielded the following values: weighted average of 0.95 per cent copper and 29.8 grams per tonne silver across 5.3 metres; weighted average of 0.70 per cent copper and 26.4 grams per tonne silver across 4.2 metres; and a weighted average of 0.86 per cent copper and 8.08 grams per tonne silver across 4.0 metres. A 1 metre chip sample (ERK-267) assayed 1.44 per cent copper and 79.9 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 23943).
A rock chip sample (KK-267) across 0.7 metre from a shear zone about 60 metres north of the Red Dog zone and parallel to it yielded 1.38 per cent lead. The zone exhibits strong sericite and chlorite alteration with moderate limonite and contains calcite-quartz stringers/pods 1-2 centimetres wide with 2-3 per cent medium grained, disseminated galena and trace to less than 1 per cent pyrite (Assessment Report 23943).
A 1.3 metre chip sample (KK-279) from a zone situated about 400 metres north of the Red Dog analyzed the highest grade combined copper-silver values of all samples taken: 3.33 per cent copper and 164.5 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 23943).
In 1994, work by Teuton Resources Corp. on the Red 57 and 61-64 claims was part of a larger program covering several Stewart area properties. Altogether, 180 reconnaissance rock samples were taken during the program.
