The property is underlain by northeast trending, folded and meta- morphosed mafic and intermediate volcanics, volcanoclastics and sed- iments of the Late Devonian to Early Mississippian age Eagle Bay Form- ation. These rocks are intruded by dykes and stocks of diorite, diabase, granodiorite and quartz porphyry.
The metavolcanics comprise a lower unit of mafic flows and breccias of basaltic composition, intercalated with detrital sediment, chert lenses and intermediate volcanic rocks. These rocks are over- lain by intermediate volcanic flows, breccias and volcanoclastics of andesitic to rhyodacite composition.
Structure in the area is dominated by a northeasterly trending overturned synform cut by several north trending right lateral faults.
The Wad-second showing is disseminated, veinlet and semi-massive pyrite, pyrrhotite with lesser chalcopyrite, sphalerite and galena hosted by an altered chert horizon. The chert host is altered with secondary quartz, calcite, chlorite and mariposite. This mineral- ization, although possibly remobilized by later synmetamorphic folding, appears to be syngenetic and conformable with the enclosing country rocks.
The mineralization is exposed for 4 metres and a grab sample assayed 0.38 per cent lead, 0.36 per cent zinc, 0.20 per cent copper and 12 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 13192). Subsequent drilling in the area intersected mineralized horizons in tuffs and phyllites overlying a rhyodacite flow and in greenstones and chlor- itized rhyodacites. Drill hole AX26 intersected 0.275 per cent zinc, 0.047 per cent lead, 0.108 per cent copper, and 1.6 grams per tonne silver over 5.58 metres and 400 metres to the northeast, drill hole A1 intersected 4.18 per cent zinc, 0.05 per cent lead, 0.08 per cent copper and 3.77 grams per tonne silver over 0.55 metres (Assessment Report 14716).
A 1986 drill hole intersected 0.36 per cent zinc, 0.07 per cent lead, 0.27 per cent copper, 7.2 grams per tonne silver, and 0.17 grams per tonne gold over 2.9 metres (Assessment Report 15609).
