The Silver (H3) Creek occurrence is located approximately 500 metres north of Cotter Creek, at elevations of 200 to 260 metres.

The oldest rocks in the area are mapped as part of the Middle to Upper Paleozoic Sicker Group. The Sicker Group, however, is under-going redefinition in the Cowichan and Buttle Lake uplifts; a new Upper Paleozoic Buttle Lake Group has been created from what were mainly sediments from the upper part of the Sicker Group. See the H-W occurrence (MINFILE 092F 330) for a summary of revisions.

These rocks are bounded on the west by Herbert Inlet while on the north, south and east they are overlain by mafic to intermediate volcanics of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group). These volcanics are cut by andesitic dikes ranging from 0.1 to 10 metres in width. A small area of diorite belonging to the Early to Middle Jurassic Island Intrusions is exposed along the east side of Herbert Inlet.

Locally, a quartz-epidote-chlorite-carbonate altered mafic volcanic, primarily basalt, hosts disseminated pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena and sphalerite mineralization. In 1987, a sample (18406) assayed 0.279 per cent copper (Assessment Report 16224).

In 1988, four samples were collected over a distance of 150 metres, yielding:

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Sample	Silver	 Copper	       Lead	    Zinc
(Number) 	(g/t)	(per cent)    (per cent)     (per cent)
23110	 48.8	  0.012	       0.275           0.047
23111	 44.1	  0.005	       0.175           0.054
23112	  8.4	  0.015	       0.029           0.015
23113	 11.9	  0.010	       0.040           0.013
(Assessment Report 17728).
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In 1984, Consort Energy completed a program of prospecting and silt and soil sampling on the area as the Lazeo-Klein claims. This work identified a high order stream sediment gold anomaly in the area, with results up to 540 parts per billion gold (Assessment Report 12791). In 1985, a program of rock, silt and soil sampling was completed. Silt and soil samples identified anomalous values of gold in creeks to the south west between Cotter Creek and Gibson Cove. In 1987 and 1988, programs of geological mapping; rock, silt and soil sampling; trenching and geophysical surveys were completed. In 1988, Gold Parl Resources completed a program of geological mapping, soil sampling and ground magnetic and electromagnetic surveys on the area as the Abco claims.