The Wallis occurrence is located on the eastern slopes of Mount Vaughan, near Volcanic Creek, about 23 kilometres northeast of the community of Atlin.
The area is underlain by the Middle Jurassic Fourth of July Creek batholith (Three Sisters Plutonic Suite) which is a zoned, probably multiphase intrusion composed mainly of granodiorite, quartz monzonite and quartz diorite. The rocks display a relatively wide range of textural features, but medium and coarse crystalline textures prevail.
The showing consists of a poorly exposed (old cat trench) set of relatively thin, steeply dipping quartz veins and surrounding zones of moderate to strong clay-chlorite alteration and silicification of the wallrock diorite. The rock hosts locally abundant arsenopyrite in quartz veins, common disseminated pyrite, as well as minor galena and sphalerite. An additional mineralized zone striking west-southwest was discovered about 450 metres southeast from the Wallis showing.
In late 2006, Saturn Minerals Inc. optioned the Wheelbarrow property and became the operator. During the early summer of 2007, Saturn Minerals conducted prospecting and rock sampling programs accompanied by lithological and structural observations. A total of 420 samples (including 98 chip samples taken from hand-trenched mineralized zones) were collected and analyzed. The rock sampling program was designed to test the character and grade of mineralization in several known showings and sites, as well as to prospect for extensions of the known zones and for completely new zones. The purpose of this extensive sampling program was also to select targets for subsequent mechanical trenching and, eventually, diamond drilling programs, both of which took place later on during the same field season. During mid- to late- summer 2007, Saturn conducted complementary soil, trenching and drilling programs. The soil sampling resulted in 74 soil samples taken in four distinct areas of the property. Excavator trenching resulted in 16 trenches and test pits totalling 315 metres in length. Approximately 150 rock samples from the trenches were sent for analysis. Nine diamond-drill holes were drilled to test the southern Big Canyon mineralized structure. The total length of the drillholes was 607.68 metres; 255 core samples were sent for analysis.
Global Drilling Solutions Inc. acquired the majority of the claims comprising the current Ruby Creek Project in the spring of 2016 from Adanac Moly Corporation. For the 2016 field season Global chose to target gold vein deposits structurally controlled by faulting within existing placer creeks with the main focus on Boulder Creek. In 2017, Global conducted geochemical sampling, drilling and ground geophysics on the Ruby Creek property. In 2018, Global carried out further geochemical sampling and drilling on this property. It’s mentioned that the Ruby Creek property remains of high interest for not only gold/molybdenum but also for silver and copper based on the exploration work during 2017/2018 (Assessment Report 38256).
In 2020, Stuhini Exploration conducted mapping, prospection, ground geophysics and geochemical sampling on the Ruby Creek property. Several rock samples were collected in the vicinity of the Wallis occurrence; sample 1869610 returned 0.68 per cent copper, 2.41 per cent zinc and 0.15 per cent lead (Assessment Report 39374). In 2021, an airborne SkyTEM survey was conducted by Stuhini on the Ruby Creek property, which revealed a number of regional trends across the property.
