The Maury showing is situated approximately 250 metres northwest of the north end of Maury Lake.
The area lies to the east of the contact between Mesozoic Nicola Group island arc volcanic, intrusive and sedimentary rocks. The Nicola Group rocks thrust eastward over pillow basalts, basaltic flows, gabbro and chert belonging to the Paleozoic Fennell Formation. To the east, the Fennell Formation is in turn underlain by Cambrian and later Eagle Bay Assemblage mixed metavolcanic and metasedimentary rocks. All of these units have been variably intruded by Cretaceous granodiorite, granite and quartz-feldspar porphyries associated with the Raft batholith, which outcrops to the south.
The property area is underlain by Hadrynian to Paleozoic Snowshoe Group quartzite, black phyllite and quartz sericite schist.
Mineralization occurs within a shear zone, which contains quartz carbonate veining with pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena and sphalerite. A series of discontinuous quartz-carbonate veins and lenses straddle the contact between black carbonaceous and locally graphitic phyllites and light grey quartzite. The black phyllites are altered to quartz-sericite-pyrite and enclosed quartz veins contain variable quantities of pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena and sphalerite. Molybdenite is assumed to occur but was not reported in hand sample. The Maury structure has been traced in float, subcrop and outcrop over a strike length of 1.3 kilometres, though stream sampling results indicate a possible northward extension.
The first record of work in the area is from 1897. In 1966, the discovery of lead-silver float immediately south of Maury Lake led to the staking of numerous claims and reconnaissance soil sampling. Acquitane of Canada Limited and Kidd Creek Mines Limited later conducted large work programs in the Maury and Ejas lakes area before abandoning the projects. BP Resources later staked claims and conducted geophysical surveying on the SB 1 to 8 claims in 1985.
The Maury showing was discovered by D. and C. Ridley in 1995; however, no work was recorded until 2001. While prospecting in 1995, the Ridleys located several old trenches and pits blasted into mineralized quartz-sericite schist immediately north of Maury Lake.
In 2001, Darin Black visited the property and conducted prospecting in the area and hand trenching in the old, existing trenches. This resulted in the discovery of massive pyrrhotite float to the north of the old Maury trenches, barite-pyrite-quartz outcrop and subcrop to the southwest and high-grade sulphide-rich quartz-carbonate rock samples from the old Maury trench area.
Between 2006 and 2007, Ridley and Black conducted limited soil surveys around the Maury showing. Extensive logging activity in the area opened up further exploration possibilities and led Ridley and Black to acquire the area as the Mahood South property. In 2011, 17 rock samples and 15 stream samples were collected from the Mahood South property by D.W. Ridley. All the rock samples were collected from the area immediately surrounding and to the southwest of the Maury showing.
A grab sample taken 25 metres south of a logging road in 2001 assayed 2.355 per cent lead, 0.356 per cent zinc, 237 grams per tonne silver, 0.907 gram per tonne gold and 545 grams per tonne molybdenum (Prospector Report 2001-19).
A grab sample of mineralized quartz vein with minor carbonate patches collected from the main Maury showing in 2011 assayed 0.134 gram per tonne gold, 150 grams per tonne silver and 2.536 per cent lead (Assessment Report 32568, page 22).
