The Canim claim is located on the hill east of the south end of Canim Lake.
The area is underlain by the Canim stock, a small felsic intrusive body that is probably related to the Cretaceous Raft batholith. The stock intrudes Upper Triassic Nicola Group volcanics.
The Canim property was staked by Cominco as part of the Kim property (092P 128) in 1968 to cover copper mineralization related to the Canim Lake stock. In 1977, Cominco conducted a percussion drilling program, totalling 800 metres in ten holes, on what was then called the Mik claim. Dave Ridley staked the Canim #1 claim in May 1985 and conducted prospecting traverses in 1985 and 1986. The area was looked at again as the Sleeping Giant 8 claim, by Ridley in 1990, as part of a larger program on the entire Sleeping Giant property.
Three mineralized zones were described by David Ridley (Assessment Report 14924). The main showing covers an area of about 50 by 120 metres. The mineralization is massive and disseminated pyrite, chalcopyrite and magnetite in quartz-filled fractures, with epidote-chlorite alteration of the wallrocks. Limonite and malachite are common and minor hematite and bornite occur locally. Disseminations of sulphides into the syenite wallrock occur in stockwork-style veinlets perpendicular to the main fractures, and many are mineralized. One chip sample assayed 1.42 grams per tonne gold and 28.1 grams per tonne silver. Three other chip samples yielded copper values ranging between 1.6 to 2.7 per cent copper (Assessment Report 14924). The "North showings" are two small occurrences of stockwork-style veinlets in pink orthoclase syenite porphyry which carry pyrite, chalcopyrite and magnetite. The "Northernmost" showings occur in a zone of intense epidote-chlorite-kaolin alteration. Stockwork-style veinlets, mineralized with pyrite, chalcopyrite and magnetite, are exposed for a length of 20 metres.
In 2010 and 2011, Fjordland Exploration Inc. completed programs, including prospecting, geological mapping, soil sampling and induced polarization surveys on the as the Howard Lake property.
