The Story 1 and 2 claims were staked in November of 1988 by Ecstall Mining Corp. and Omega Gold Corp. The Story 5 claim was added in 1990. The area is underlain by Lower Jurassic andesitic rocks of the Betty Creek Formation (Hazelton Group).

The exploration work included soil sampling (55 samples) rock sampling (46 samples), and silt sampling (24 samples). Together the rock and soil surveys outlined a weakly mineralized shear zone with a strike length open on both ends and having an inferred width of 25 meters wide.

In 1990, crews of International Kodiak Resources (for Ecstall) completed a soil sampling grid over the Story 2 claim block, collecting 91 samples. All streams were systematically sampled. Twenty-three silt and moss samples were collected. The property was geologically mapped, and 486 rock samples were taken from mineralogically promising outcrops.

Several areas of mineralization were examined, most notable of which is the large gossan north of the Jack glacier. Large outcroppings of pyritic rhyolite had anomalous values in zinc, mercury and arsenic. Adjacent intermediate extrusive rocks are cut by several quartz carbonate sulphide veins up to 25 centimetres wide with strike lengths up to 15 to 50 metres. Quartz-carbonate-sulphide veins within an aphyric andesite assayed up to 3.83 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 20589). One brecciated quartz vein/fault zone assayed 20.8 grams per tonne silver over 2 metres with higher grade grab samples taken from the same zone (Assessment Report 20589).

Refer to AP (MINFILE 104B 072) and Unuk (MINFILE 104B 083) for further details of related mineralization on the Zone 1 area explored by Granges Inc. in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Zone 1 extends from Bruce glacier to the toe of Jack glacier to the northeast.