The Peacock area is underlain by Hazelton Group dacitic to andesitic flows of the Lower Jurassic Telkwa Formation. Widely scattered, one to 16 centimetre wide quartz veins carry pyrite, minor chalcopyrite and bornite. A selected sample of mineralization from a quartz vein striking 065 degrees, assayed 2.06 grams per tonne gold, 82.29 grams per tonne silver and 10.1 per cent copper.

At 1420 metres elevation on the Black Hawk claim, a shaft driven in sheared andesitic volcanics exposed pyrite, chalcopyrite, copper carbonates, and specularite. A selected sample in 1930 assayed 1.4 grams per tonne gold, 82.3 grams per tonne silver, and 0.8 per cent copper.

Work History

The Peacock showings were staked originally by C.P. Price, apparently in about 1920 or earlier, and a shallow shaft was sunk a t that time. In 1923 the ground was restaked as the Peacock group by J. Fraser. The Copper King group, adjoining upstream, was staked by J. Quinn and M. Morrison. The Black Hawk group, located on a tributary creek at about the 1400 metres elevation, was staked by Frank Madigan. Prospecting and limited exploration work continued in the early 1930s and included a short adit and shallow shaft on the Black Hawk group.

In 2006, James Dixon excavated a 4 metre trench and collected 2 samples on the Beholder claim, in the Peacock vicinity. One of the blasted ore samples recovered from the dump material assayed 5002 grams per tonne silver, which confirmed the historical assay (Assessment Report 28131). The ore is milky quartz, apparently low temperature, with reticulate veins of tetrahedrite.

In 2011 and 2012, Quartz Mountain Resources Ltd held the considerable Buck and Karma property. In 2011, the company conducted 3906 kilometres of aeromagnetic surveying which covered many occurrences in the region including the Peacock (Assessment Report 33176, 34048).