The Wolverine Creek showing area is underlain by andestic and basaltic volcanic rock of the Upper Triassic Stuhini Group in contact to the immediate west with the Middle to Late Triassic Hickman pluton (Stikine Plutonic Suite) consisting of hornblende-quartz diorite to granodiorite and tonalite.

The Wolverine Creek area is located immediately south of the Schaft Creek deposit, within a heavily forested area on the lower northwestern slopes of Mount Hicks. This area contains several separate mineralized showings including the Wolverine Creek, Monzodiorite Bluff, Mount Hicks showings.

Of particular interest in the Mount Hicks area are a group of rock samples with anomalous copper (0.11 per cent; and 2.0 per cent copper with 0.22 gram per tonne gold) taken in the Wolverine Creek drainage; these samples are located immediately south of an arsenic-antimony-molybdenum anomaly in soils, with coincident chargeability anomaly (southern-most line in the soil sampling/IP lines (Figures 23 to 25, Assessment Report 35967). The highest-grade rock sample in this cluster is described as andesite with pervasive iron oxide weathering, and pyrite greater than chalcopyrite mineralization in quartz veins.

Work History

In 2015, Teck Resources conducted soil and rock sampling over their Wolverine Creek grid area and nearby. Teck collected 116 rock samples for analysis, 56 were taken from the Mount LaCasse area to the north of the Schaft Creek deposit, and 60 from the Mount Hicks area to the south.

See Schaft Creek (104G 015) for further details of area geology and a common work history.