The Boling showing is located east of Boling Point on the north side of Babine Lake.

The geology of the region consists of: 1) a Mississippian to Triassic Cache Creek Group oceanic volcanic and sedimentary assemblage 2) the Upper Triassic dominantly mafic volcanic Takla Group 3) the Lower to Middle Jurassic Hazelton Group mafic to felsic volcanic and sedimentary rocks 4) the Upper Cretaceous to Lower Tertiary Ootsa Lake Group sedimentary and volcanic rocks and 5) the Oligocene and Miocene Endako Group. The region has been intruded by the Lower Jurassic quartz monzonite to granodiorite Topley Intrusive Suite, Upper Jurassic plutons of the Francois Lake Suite and plugs and stocks related to Upper Cretaceous and Tertiary volcanism.

The area of the Boling showing is underlain by Cache Creek Group greenstone.

Mineralization occurs in quartz-carbonate veins and shears within foliated greenstone (amphibolite). Mineralization consists of argentiferous galena, sphalerite, tetrahedrite, argentite, chalcopyrite, native silver, pyrrhotite and pyrite.

Work History

Mineralization was first discovered in the 1920's and subsequently worked by Silver Island Mining Company, Limited from the late 1920's to 1930's. About 94 kilograms of silver was reported produced (based on $1000.00 of native silver at $0.33 per ounce) from a trench. Two adits, the west Sunrise (144 metres) and east Sunrise #1 (56 metres), were driven to intersect the mineralization. Sunrise intersect a narrow vein with silver rich galena at 122 metres.

In 1985, E.A. Shaede and L.B. Warren staked the Babine claim to cover the area of the former workings. The following year, a program of geochemical (rock, silt, and soil) sampling and a ground electromagnetic survey was completed. This work identified a large mine dump and caved adit portal, believed to be the West adit, approximately 250 metres west of the creek bisecting the area and approximately 70 metres above lake level. Approximately 200 metres west-northwest of the previous adit and at an elevation of approximately 120 metres above the lake level, another short, approximately 2-metre long, adit was identified. This adit was driven on a 0.3-metre wide honeycomb quartz vein dipping approximately 60 degrees northwest and striking northeast. The vein was traced for approximately 50 metres before being covered by overburden and hosts sporadic galena, sphalerite and tetrahedrite mineralization in a foliated greenstone with carbonate alteration. Other mineralized veins and shear zones were reported in the area of the small adit. The East adit was identified approximately 700 metres east of the creek and 155 metres above lake level.

Rock and chip sampling of the mineralization yielded values of up to 34.2 grams per tonne silver from a narrow shear zone exposed in the East adit (chip sample no. 37); 42.80 grams per tonne gold, 13 000 grams per tonne silver and 6.39 per cent lead from float samples (no. 24 and 24a) of quartz carbonate vein with native silver from an opencut located 20 metres above the East adit portal; 185.0 grams per tonne silver from a sample (no. 28) of a nearby barren quartz carbonate vein; 0.15 gram per tonne gold, 13.2 grams per tonne silver, 2.77 per cent lead and 1.02 per cent zinc from a grab sample (no. 17) from the West adit dump; 0.20 and 0.34 gram per tonne gold, 35.6 and 34.9 grams per tonne silver, 3.26 and 3.46 per cent lead with 0.97 and 1.36 per cent zinc, respectively, from two samples (no. 12 and 14) from trenches located 100 metres north of the West adit; 257.3 and 105.0 grams per tonne silver, 0.45 and 5.60 per cent lead with 0.75 and 0.10 per cent zinc, respectively, from two samples (no. 45 and 48) taken from flat-lying veins located west of the West adit and 2250.0 grams per tonne silver, 0.460 per cent copper, 0.514 per cent lead and 0.600 per cent zinc from a sample (no.8) of mineralized quartz carbonate vein from the small westernmost adit dump (Assessment Report 15358).

The ground was staked as the Condor in 1990 and prospected and mapped by W. Halleran and A.A. Halleran in 1990 and 1991.

In 1990, a sample (Condor 1) from the waste dump of the West adit assayed 50.4 grams per tonne silver and 1.24 per cent lead (Assessment Report 21284).

In 1991, the ‘Silver Pit’, located near the East adit, was re-opened to confirm the presence of high-grade native silver. This work indicated more that multiple episodes of veining occurred, with native silver occurring in later widely spaced ladder fracture veins in the larger, 0.23-metre wide, brecciated quartz-carbonate vein. A sample (Con-1-91) from this zone yielded up to 26 000 grams per tonne silver and 0.82 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 22157). Sampling (Con-10-91) of a mineralized, 3- to 5-centimetre wide, quartz carbonate vein associated with a diorite dike located near the West adit assayed 2790 grams per tonne silver, whereas a sample (Con-12-91) from a mineralized, 2- to 25-centimetre wide, vein in the West adit yielded 175 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 22157). Also at this time, two samples (Con-11-91 and Con-W-C-2) from a mineralized quartz carbonate vein located by the small westernmost adit yielded 329 and 1870 grams per tonne silver, respectively (Assessment Report 22157).

In 2007, Amarc Resources Ltd. held the area as part of the Megamine property. A soil sampling program was completed on the Megamine 5 and 6 claims to the north.

In 2013 and 2015, the area was prospected as the Christmas 1 and 3 claims by Randy J. Marko.