The Storm King (Lot 3625) is located at 2130 metres elevation at the head of Goat River, some 3 kilometres south of the summit of White Grouse Mountain and 45 kilometres north of Creston. The Superior claim was also located in this vicinity.
The Superior claim, owned in 1901 by W.J. Garbutt, was apparently located in this vicinity. A considerable amount of work was done (in 1900?) and several tons of ore were packed out a distance of 48 kilometres in order to make a smelter teat. Leech (1952) mentions a water filled shaft and trenches on the Storm King property, which may be the old Superior working. The Golden King (Lot 3624), Storm King (Lot 3625), Gem (Lot 3631), and Annie G (Lot 6339) claims were Crown-granted in 1905 to J.A. Gibson, Pugh Sutherland, H.H. Nell, and C.R. Holmes.
Hostrocks are Kitchener Formation dolomitic siltstones (Middle Proterozoic Purcell Supergroup); the sediments strike north and have moderate to steep dips to the west. The property is located 1.5 kilometres from the southeast corner of the Bayonne batholith, an Early Cretaceous granodiorite. The intrusive rocks are medium to coarse grained and contain pink feldspar and minor black tourmaline.
Regional metamorphism is biotite facies of greenschist grade; one small area of diopside, possibly a contact metamorphic effect, was noticed in recent work. Quartz veining is common on the property, occurring in large swarms which are subparallel to the stratigraphy and up to 50 metres wide. Individual veins are up to 1 metre in width and locally contain fine-grained carbonate; the mineralized veins are bounded by weathered brown sericite alteration up to 1 metre in width.
A shaft was sunk on mineralized quartz; the dump contains a small pile of sorted ore heavily mineralized with pyrite, tetrahedrite, galena, and a little chalcopyrite and arsenopyrite. A selected sample rich in galena and tetrahedrite analysed 0.31 per cent tin; recent samples of such material yielded assays of up to 4.5 grams per tonne gold and 310 grams per tonne silver, but barren quartz veins, host dolomites and granodiorite contain no precious metals.
Efforts to find extensions of the zone in trenches do not appear to have been successful. The property was also explored as the Whiskey Jack by Lacana Mining in 1985 for its precious metal and tin potential; mineralization was found to be restricted to local areas within extensive quartz veining, with no interesting values obtained from either the altered wallrocks or in barren-looking quartz veins. No samples yielded positive tin assays, but local high grade antimony assays may be of further interest; furthermore, small occurrences of arsenopyrite north of the Whiskey Jack claim contain scheelite.
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).
