The Red 18, 19 occurrence is located about 18 kilometres south-southeast of Stewart
on ridges radiating from Trevor Mountain at the head of Bromley Glacier at the edge of the Cambria Icefield. These ridges form a series of nunataks exposed in a northwest axis within the Cambria Icefield.
The showing covers an area of Jurassic Hazelton Group pyroclastic volcanic and sedimentary rocks in the vicinity of a variety of intrusive plutons associated with the main Eocene Coast Plutonic Complex to the west. Geological observations indicate that the property is underlain by an interbedded sedimentary sequence within maroon, andesitic, clastic volcanics. The sedimentary sequence consists of thinly bedded chert, argillite and limestone beds. Both the sedimentary and volcanic rocks are intruded by a medium grained rhyolite stock.
Three different types of mineralization are evident. These are as follows: 1) Abundant pyrite occurs as stringers and fracture filling within chalcedonic sediments and argillites associated with limestones. Occasionally, minor sphalerite and galena are noted with the pyrite which usually has strong hydrozincite stain associated with it. 2) Sulphide mineralization associated with brecciation as well as a very prominent northeast shear direction. The shearing contains lenticular and discontinuous barite-calcite veins with pods, blebs and stringers of galena and occasional sphalerite. Red jasper is also a common constituent of many of these barite-filled shears. Rare magnetite-rich pods usually less than 1 metre in length are associated with the jasper. Hydrozincite, as coatings on fractures in the area of the barite-calcite-galena mineralization, was also observed. These shears appear to cut all geological units with mineralization noted within shearing in all units. 3) Bluish to white hydrozincite coatings were observed on limestone horizons along the west edge of the exposed spine along the Red 18 and 19 claims. No primary zinc minerals were identified in this rock unit. Usually the horizons have abundant black manganese coatings along fractures and on siliceous inclusions. Hydrozincite was also noted in a black manganese-rich limestone, located approximately 500 metres north of the limestone above. This second exposure contains abundant black siliceous inclusions.
In addition to the sulphide in the shears, mineralization is also associated with brecciated andesites with or without quartz veinlets. Pyrite as disseminated grains and occasional patches forms up to 1-2 per cent of the rock which is generally coated with hydrozincite.
Results of a 1994-95 geochemical program indicate highly anomalous lead and zinc values, generally associated with highly anomalous arsenic, occasionally accompanied by weakly anomalous silver and very rarely accompanied by weakly anomalous gold and copper values. Values as high as 1.3 grams per tonne gold, 363.8 grams per tonne silver, 5.63 per cent lead and 6.88 per cent zinc were obtained from various parts of the property. A 10.85 metre trench over a mineralized northeast trending shear zone yielded a 2.25 metre section averaging 91.7 grams per tonne silver, 1.13 per cent lead and 4.72 per cent zinc in a generally highly anomalous lead-zinc zone. A chip sample (ERK-95-268) across 1.25 metres analyzed 134.6 grams per tonne silver, 1.73 per cent lead and 6.88 per cent zinc. The best chip line results obtained included 1.6 metres of 1.53 per cent lead and 2.56 per cent zinc (sample ERK-95-155), and 1.2 metres of 1.14 per cent lead and 5.33 per cent zinc (sample ERK-95-156) within cherty, pyrite-rich horizons within an impure limestone (Assessment Report 24400).
In 1994-95, Teuton Resources Corp. conducted an exploration program on the Red claims consisting of reconnaissance rock sampling including limited trenching in addition to prospecting and reconnaissance geological mapping. A total of 132 rock samples were collected on the property and analyzed. In 2006, a helicopter-borne geophysical survey was carried out over the Ram property on behalf of Teuton Resources Corp. A total of 150 line-kilometres was flown.
