The claims are underlain by Upper Cretaceous Kasalka Group volcanics comprised of varicolored porphyritic tuffs, flows and breccia which have been subjected to intense thrusting and faulting. The mineralized shears are hosted by green to cream colored, weakly porphyritic to weakly foliated rhyolitic tuff which dips southeast.

A major fault along Driftwood Creek strikes north and dips steeply east. This fault postdates the mineralization as it displaces mineralized shear zones.

The mineralization occurs along quartz veins and associated shear zones which strike east and dip 45 to 70 degrees north. An adit to 130 degrees and dips 45 to 60 degrees northeast. The quartz veins occur as discontinuous stringers and lenticular masses of shattered quartz ranging in width from 2.5 centimetres to 1.8 metres and con- tain variable amounts of galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, tetrahedrite and minor native copper.

Another set of parallel quartz and quartz-carbonate veins dip southwest. They host fine-grained pyrite, chalcopyrite and tetrahed- rite. Also found were limonitic pseudomorphs of pyrite, galena and sphalerite. There is abundant disseminated pyrite along foliation shears.

The 1981 drill assays ranged from 0.069 to 1.37 grams per tonne gold and 0.343 to 3.428 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 10637).

Between 1917 to 1927, 12 tonnes of ore were mined and produced 62 grams of gold, 41,865 grams of silver, 107 kilograms of copper, 3,490 kilograms of lead and 348 kilograms of zinc.

In 1937 a shipment of 8837 kilograms of sorted ore was shipped to the Dept. of Mines Sampling Plant at Prince Rupert. This ore assayed 10.6 grams per tonne gold, 2417 grams per tonne silver, 1.2 per cent copper, 3.6 per cent lead and 2.7 per cent zinc.