The Wee occurrence is located 950 metres east of Sweeney Lake, on the north side of Huckleberry Mountain approximately 2.7 kilometres north-northwest of the Huckleberry mine (093E 037), and about 84 kilometres south-southwest of the community of Houston.
The Wee showing is underlain by a sedimentary-volcanic section of Jurassic Hazelton Group rocks (Telkwa Formation) that has been intruded by several small stocks of the Late Cretaceous Bulkley Plutonic Suite. From oldest to youngest the Hazelton section consists of andesitic tuffs and flows, pyroclastic material characterized by lapilli tuffs, amygdaloidal and/or porphyritic andesite with interbedded dacitic flows and pyroclastics, and massive arkosic sandstone and finely bedded shale. Although sulphide mineralization occurs throughout the volcanics and in the granodiorite, the most significant chalcopyrite and molybdenite mineralization occurs in a number of breccia zones within the volcanics. The breccia bodies are composed of angular tuff and andesite fragments. Epidote alteration is common in places.
In 1973, Hudson Bay Oil and Gas (HBOG) discovered a copper-bearing breccia zone occurring in Hazelton Group andesitic volcanics and staked the Wee claims. Subsequently the Phr claims were staked by Pacific Houston Resources. During 1973, HBOG carried out preliminary geological mapping, geochemical surveys and a short diamond drill program (four holes). In 1975, further silt, rock chip and soil geochemical sampling was undertaken. Geological mapping of the property at 1 inch to 1/4 mile scale, and a central portion of the property at 1 inch to 100 feet scale was completed. A ground magnetometer survey and two induced polarization (IP) lines over the ice on Sweeney Lake were also completed. During 1976, a reconnaissance IP survey located three anomalous areas and detailed IP surveys were carried out over these areas. The hole drilled in 1973 was subsequently deepened in 1979 (Assessment Report 7577); this hole (79-1), averaged 0.4 per cent copper and 2.74 grams per tonne silver over 18 metres (132.6-149.4 metres). A second and presumably non-mineralized hole (79-2) was not analyzed. Although epidote alteration was noted throughout, only specks of chalcopyrite in a quartz vein and pyrite on fractures were noted. There is no record of any gold analysis.
According to Harris (2004) (as reported in Assessment Report 32012), HBOG carried out the most comprehensive exploration on the property in the period from 1972 to 1979. HBOG conducted reconnaissance and grid IP surveys, magnetometer and HLEM surveys and rock, stream sediment and grid soil geochemistry. This was followed up by four diamond-drill holes in 1973 and two additional drillholes in 1979. One of the 1979 drillholes was drilled to extend hole W-73-1. International Tournigan Corporation conducted prospecting in 1992 and airborne magnetic, electromagnetic and radiometric surveys over the property in 1993. Limited geological mapping and prospecting was undertaken by Huckleberry Mines Ltd. (HML) in 2001 as part of an examination of the northeast corner of the Huckleberry property.
In the past, rock, silt and soil geochemical samples have been taken on the Sweeney Lake and adjoining properties but according to (Assessment Report 22558) none of these were analyzed for gold.
The Sweeney 1-4 claims were owned by Ronald Ross Blusson and are under option to Nanika Resources Inc. (formerly New Cantech Ventures Inc.) who acquired the property in 2005 and cut a new grid and completed IP, magnetometer and soil geochemical surveys. A total of 256 soil samples were taken. This survey defined a coincident copper-molybdenum soil anomaly that is approximately 800 metres long and between 50 to 100 metres wide. The anomaly trends east and covers a low lying area east of Sweeney Lake.
From 2009 to 2010, a total of 2001.95 metres of NQ diamond drilling was completed on the Sweeney property. A total of 1274.80 metres in four drillholes was completed on the Ted claims (holes T09-1 to T09-6 (two lost holes) (Tenures 305742 and 305744) and an additional 718.11 metres of drilling in two holes, both from the same drill site, was done on the Sweeney claims (holes S10-1 and S10-2) (Tenure 304915). Drilling on the Ted claims (holes T09-1 to T09-6) has failed to intersect any significant sulphide mineralization. Low grade copper mineralization intersected in hole S10-2 is similar to that encountered in the upper part of hole S10-1. In both holes sulphide mineralization occurs in a chlorite-epidote-magnetite-pyrite altered lapilli tuff.
