The Family (CT Ext) occurrence is located on a west-facing slope, west of the Ospika River and southeast of the northeastern headwaters of Pesika Creek.

Regionally, the area underlain by thin imbricate thrust sheets of basinal sequence Ordovician to Devonian Road River Group sediments and carbonates, and Ordovician Ospika Formation mafic volcanics.

The occurrence, hosted in Road River Group calcareous silty-shale, consists of a number of quartz-calcite veins, varying from 7.5 to 30 centimetres wide, mineralized with minor amounts of chalcocite, sphalerite and pyrite. Extensive skarn float comprising chlorite, calcite, limonite and quartz is also reported in the occurrence area.

In 1975, rock chip samples were reported to have yielded from 0.02 to 0.15 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 5861).

Work History

Portions of the ground later (in 2005) covered by the CT property were previously staked by Bill McConechy in 1975; these claims were referred to as the Family group and included the Family showing. Very little work was completed on the property prior to 2007; published work includes prospecting, geochemical (soil, silt and rock) sampling and very limited mapping (Assessment Report 5861).

In 1980, Cominco Ltd. completed a program of geological mapping and geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling on the area immediately west of the occurrence as the Pesika property. A silt sample from the occurrence area yielded greater than 20 000 parts per million zinc (Assessment Report 8329).

In 2005, David Heyman originally acquired the CT Ext property, which covered the Family showing. Ownership of the claims was subsequently transferred to Megastar Development Corporation in 2006 and a program of regional rock sampling was completed. In 2007 Mantle Resources Inc, the optioner of the CT Ext property, conducted an exploration program that consisted of two soil sampling lines as well as limited prospecting in the vicinity of the Family showing. Geochemical results from soil sampling indicated no strong trends of mineralization; however, lead content increases very slightly within the Silurian dolomitic sedimentary rock compared to the overlying shales and quartzose wackes.