The Red Lobster claims are located on Redding Creek, centred approximately 32.6 kilometres west from Kimberley.

Regionally, the area is underlain by siliciclastic sediments of the Belt-Purcell Supergroup that have been intruded, contemporaneously, by gabbro-diorite sills and dikes. Porphyritic quartz monzonite/granodiorite stocks have intruded the package in upper Cretaceous time. Structurally the area is cut by the Hall Lake Fault, a west-dipping thrust fault with some northerly strike-slip movement. The area is cored by a zone of phylonitic/mylonitic metamorphism that is likely related to the Hall Lake Fault.

Four zones of mineralization are known on the property: the Cominco Shear; the Greissen zone east of the Cominco Shear; the Shadow Vein and an area of iron-oxide breccias within a zone of mylonite and phylonite.

At the Cominco Shear, mineralization consists of semi-massive red-brown sphalerite, galena, pyrrhotite, pyrite and chalcopyrite in foliated and deformed parallel bands, as disseminations and in crosscutting fractures and quartz veins associated with quartz and strong chlorite ±sericite±albite alteration in middle Aldridge quartzites and pelites.

In 2011, Bethpage Capital Corp. conducted an airborne geophysical survey of the Hall Lake area including the occurrence. The survey identified five anomalous features. It was hypothesized that the first two zones could be the extension of the felsic dike that hosts the mineralization found at the Cretin occurrence (Kenwood, S. (2011-11-30): 2011 Technical Report for the Hall Lake Property).

During 2011, two drill holes, RL11-1 and R11-2, were performed on the zone. These returned values of 0.22 per cent zinc and 0.17 per cent lead over 17.1 metres and 0.12 per cent zinc and 0.12 per cent lead over 16.5 metres (Fjordland Exploration Inc., Press Release - Dec.12, 2011).

The Shadow vein, also known as the Shado zone, is located along the western portion of the claims and consists of a significant lead-zinc-copper-silver±gold vein. Locally, numerous parallel- trending quartz veins that occur over a width of more than 50 metres, with exposed strike lengths estimated to be in excess of 100 metres. The veins vary from a few to 30 centimetres in width and are often intensely mineralized. The sediment-hosted quartz veins appear related to a discordant feeder zone, more than 10 metres in width, located in the central portion of the showing. The feeder zone is strongly solidified and carbonatized. Galena is predominantly associated with the veining, with lesser amounts of pyrite, chalcopyrite and sphalerite.

Historic work on the vein has included trenching and stripping with some limited production of 2.97 tonnes being shipped to Trail, BC. This shipment assayed at 424 grams per tonne silver, 25.4 per cent lead, 4.8 per cent zinc, and 0.13 per cent copper. Recent grab samples from the Shadow vein have yielded values up to 988.8 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 31587).

Work History

Past work in the area includes a drilling program by Cominco during the 1980’s, who were unsuccessful in intersecting a Sullivan-Style mineralized horizon. In 2010, the property was optioned by Fjordland Exploration Inc. from Kootenay Gold Inc. In 2011, four diamond drill holes, totalling 908 metres, were completed on the property. In 2019, SJ Geophysics completed a 2.8 line-kilometre hybrid Volterra Magnetotelluric (MT)/Volterra Induced 3D Polarization (3DIP) geophysics survey focused the southern part of the Vulcan property. In 2020, Eagle Plains completed a program of prospecting, geochemical (rock, soil and silt) sampling and two diamond drill holes, totalling 975.2 metres, with borehole electromagnetic surveys on the area as the Vulcan property.