The Queest (Coyote) occurrence is located on a south east- facing hillside at an elevation of 1600 metres approximately 5 kilometres north west of Malakwa.

Regionally, the area lies near the western margin of the Shuswap Metamorphic Complex. The occurrence area is underlain by Hadrynian(?) to Paleozoic deformed metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks of the Eagle Bay Assemblage (Formation). This sequence has been intruded by two plutonic phases and later stage derivatives.

The stratigraphic sequence is comprised of quartz sericite schist, quartz mica schist, phyllite, quartzite, siliceous schist, hornblende biotite schist, porphyroblastic garnet-(sillimanite)-mica schist and granodiorite porphyry. Molybdenite mineralization occurs as disseminated thin hexagonal flakes up to 3 millimetres in diameter within granodiorite porphyry. Mineralization has been mapped over an area of 100 by 150 metres.

In 1980, a grab sample of coarse-grained molybdenite along a fracture within sericitized granodiorite analyzed 0.13 per cent molybdenum (Assessment Report 9567). The following year, diamond drilling intersected minor molybdenite with in a quartz granodiorite porphyry sill and disseminated to blebby pyrrhotite, pyrite and minor chalcopyrite mineralization in metavolcanics. Intercepts included up to 0.009 per cent molybdenum over 1 metre and 0.20 gram per tonne gold over 2 metres in hole C81-3, while hole C81-2 yielded up to 0.121 per cent copper over 1 metre (Assessment Report 10385).

Another zone of mineralization is exposed on the Coyote 10 claim, located south of a small creek in the western head waters of West Gorge Creek, approximately 3.5 kilometres to the north. Locally, an oxidized and silicified massive sulphide horizon, up to 2 metres thick, is exposed intermittently by trenching for a length of 200 metres, approximately 700 metres to the north east of the cabin on the Coyote 10 claim. The mineralization consists of fine- grained pyrrhotite and pyrite with minor chalcopyrite. Accessory tourmaline and carbonate are also reported. The zone is hosted by quartzite and quartz-biotite gneiss to the north and limestone to the south. In 1980, samples yielded up to 0.20 per cent copper (Assessment Report 9567).

In 1980 and 1981, Hudson Bay Oil & Gas completed programs of geochemical sampling, geological mapping, ground magnetic and induced polarization surveys and five diamond drill holes, totalling 898 metres, on the area as the Coyote claims.