The area of the Wolf showing is underlain by Late Devonian to Late Permian sedimentary rock of the Big Creek Group.

A vein occurrence found during placer mining near Manson River was described as being a strongly oxidized rusty brown zone in contact with highly deformed grey to black shale and/or greywacke. A pod of galena approximately 30 centimetres in width occurs within the oxide. The mineralized zone occurs within a fault zone with strong shearing, brecciation, small-scale folding and intense fracturing. The fault trends approximately 130 degrees, dips steeply to the southwest and crosscuts bedding in the shale/greywacke. Swarms of oxide-filled microveinlets extend laterally into the surrounding rock at an approximate trend of 045 degrees/36 degrees southeast.

Three grab samples were collected, one from the high-grade galena (sample 001) and two from the oxide material (samples 002 and 003). Sample one assayed 2.22 grams per tonne gold, 3431 grams per tonne silver, 57.38 per cent lead, 0.4 per cent antimony and 0.54 per cent copper; sample 002 assayed 6.52 grams per tonne gold and 1.2 per cent arsenic and sample 003 assayed 10.86 grams per tonne gold and 3 per cent arsenic (as reported in Assessment Report 33942).

Shear-hosted veining through interbedded graphitic argillite-sandstone-siltstone (sample 977117) between 42.16 to 42.30 metres of hole MS17001 assayed 217 grams per tonne silver, 15.1 per cent zinc. Sample 977108 from between 12.43 to 12.72 metres in hole MS17002 assayed 815 grams per tonne silver. Pit samples of sheared argillite/shale (sample W-7) assayed 4.63 grams per tonne gold, 2050 grams per tonne silver, and 1.65 per cent zinc. (sample W-1) assayed 0.55 grams per tonne gold, 869 grams per tonne silver and 20.2 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 37518).

Work History

A 2012 and 2013 exploration program by Saville Resources Inc. was conducted on their Wolf claims in order to test for the strike extension of a quartz-galena vein system discovered on an adjacent claim to the west by placer operations. Area A, to the northwest of the showing, and area B, to the southeast of the galena vein, were laid out for geochemical grid work in order to test for strike extension of the vein. The sampling program was successful in delineating a distinct silver-lead-zinc anomaly that is approximately 50 to 75 metres wide and present over a length of 800 metres in area B. There were no distinct trends in area A. Silver values within the trend mostly exceeded 1 gram per tonne silver to a high of 3.14 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 33942).

In 2013, six rock samples were collected, most of them float samples of quartz veins from the area near the base of a small hill that is topographically higher than the soil geochemical trend. In addition, narrow quartz veinlets within grey and black schist units were sampled. Values obtained were not significant. One sample yielded detectable silver, assaying 0.6 gram per tonne silver, none of the samples reported detectible gold (Assessment Report 34364).

In 2017, 39 pit samples and 9 diamond drill holes, totalling 674.8 metres, were completed. Drilling intercepted shear-hosted veins through interbedded, graphitic argillite-sandstone-siltstone.