The East Ridge zone of the Inel property occurs in an area that is primarily underlain by marine sedimentary and volcanic rocks of the Upper Triassic Stuhini Group. Lower Jurassic andesitic volcanics of the Hazeleton Group overlie the Stuhini rocks and Early Jurassic feldspar porphyritic rock and monzodioritic to gabbroic rock intrude the strata.

Prospecting on the east side of Snippaker Ridge revealed a large number of quartz-sulphide veins cutting thinly banded lithic tuff and volcanic sandstone. These units are regarded as the upper members within the Lower Jurassic Unuk River Formation. The mineralized veins host arsenopyrite and pyrite as well as occasional sphalerite and galena. The veins occur within a restricted zone due east of the Main Sulphide zone. Sampling the veins in 1984, gave relatively uniform values up to 5.04 per cent copper, 2.00 per cent lead, 9.95 per cent zinc, 36.34 grams per tonne silver and 6.10 grams per tonne gold (Grove, 1987 (Property File)). In 1983, two samples from these veins assayed 0.12 per cent copper, 2.09 per cent lead, 8.76 per cent zinc, 51.42 grams per tonne silver, 0.50 gram per tonne gold and 0.15 per cent copper, 0.39 per cent lead, 8.84 per cent zinc, 13.7 grams per tonne silver and 0.137 gram per tonne gold, respectively (Assessment Report 11312, Figure 3).

Further soil and silt sampling towards the top of the ridge indicated significant gold and silver values and may reflect the Moonlight (104B 322) and the Inel Ridge zones (104B 258).

See Inel (104B 113) for details of related mineralization and work history.