The Stoney claims area located on Stoney Mountain, approximately 15 kilometres northeast of the community of Yahk.
The area is underlain by Middle Aldridge Formation sediments and Moyie sills and dikes. The bedded rocks form an open north- northeast shallow-plunging anticline. The clastic assemblage is made up of predominantly medium- bedded quartz-rich greywackes intercalated with thin bedded siltstones and mudstones. The intrusive rocks range from diorite to gabbro and are medium to coarse grained.
Locally, a narrow sulphide horizon outcrops at the top of Stoney Mountain and dips gently east beneath a gabbro sill. The sulphides consist mainly of pyrrhotite weakly anomalous in lead and zinc hosted by laminated siltstones and wackes.
Prior to 1987, when Minnova staked the property, the only recorded exploration work on the Stoney property involved a soil survey carried out for Kennco Exploration, in 1966. Minnova mapped the Stoney property at a reconnaissance scale and completed geophysical surveys. In 1987. In 1989, Minova drilled two holes (89-ST1 and 89-ST2), totaling 519 metres, to test stratigraphy and geophysical anomalies (Assessment Report 19957). These holes were located about 1900 metres south and 2300 metres southeast of the Stoney Creek MINFILE occurrence. Very weak pyrite-pyrrhotite mineralization was encountered in fine pelitic sediments but no economic mineralization was discovered.
In 1990, a contour soils program attempted to identify productive horizons in the Middle Aldridge Formation and a narrow sulphide horizon was mapped out at the top of Stoney Mountain. In 1991, one diamond drill hole, totaling 285.6 metres, was completed.
In 1990, two samples from trenches returned anomalous lead and zinc values of 179 parts per million lead with 129 parts per million zinc, and 136 parts per million lead with 398 parts per million zinc, respectively (Assessment Report 21537). In 1991, drilling encountered a laminated sequence between 74.2 and 82.5 metres containing trace amounts of disseminated sphalerite that returned 222 parts per million zinc over 1.0 metre (Assessment Report 22233).
In 1999, Chapleau Resources drilled hole SN 99-1 about 575 metres north-northeast of the Stoney Creek occurrence (Assessment Report 26202). No significant results were achieved.
In 2020, a program of rock and soil sampling was conducted by Kootenay Resources Inc on their Moyie Anticline property utilizing both laboratory and portable XRF analytical techniques (Assessment Report 39483). During the 2020 field program more than 1420 XRF readings were taken and compiled. Several areas with anomalous lead, zinc, copper as well as gold were found during the program. The Moyie Anticline property covered parts of the 082GSW and 082FSE map areas.
In 2021, Kootenay Resources Inc. contracted Salt Spring Imaging, Ltd. to record and analyse magnetotelluric data on the Moyie anticline (Assessment Report 40348).
