The Sunset group, comprising the Sunset (Lot 5339), Maud (Lot 5338), Joseph (Lot 5337) and Anna (Lot 5336) claims, is located about 1 kilometre to the northwest of the confluence of Ferguson and Parisian creeks. The Comstock and Silver Bullion, not part of the Sunset group, adjoined the group downhill and the Wonderful adjoined the Sunset group on the southwest.
Bands of Lower Cambrian Badshot Formation limestone are repeated by folding. These bands are interlayered with metasediments of the Cambrian to Devonian Index Formation, Lardeau Group.
Rocks on the property are described as phyllitic schist, dolomitic schist and carbonates. The Sunset lead is poorly exposed within the gradational contact of the green and grey phyllitic schist.
The Sunset group was first staked in 1899 by H.M. Carter. The group was sold to the Golden Link Mining Company in 1900. During the next year, 33.5 metres of tunnel was driven along the Sunset lead. The lead was described as a quartz ledge (vein), mineralized throughout with galena and pyrite. Where the ledge was in contact with calcareous rocks, a 15 to 30-centimetre thick band of galena was encountered. The lead was reported to be traceable for eight claim lengths and to consist of a 1.2 to 1.5-metre thickness of quartz. In 1901, the Comstock and Silver Bullion claims were owned by the Comstock Gold Mining Company Limited. A 15-metre tunnel had been driven on a vein measuring 60 centimetres in width and containing chalcopyrite. Samples from this vein were as high as 17.14 grams per tonne gold and 1028.58 grams per tonne silver (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1901, page 1019). On the Wonderful, a crosscut tunnel was driven over 30 metres in 1901.
Work done on the Sunset claim area in 1985 by Agincourt Explorations Inc. determined that the main workings were actually on the Maud claim, which adjoined the Sunset on the southeast. Further, the company determined that the Crown grant did not show up accurately on claim and topographic maps. It was in fact about 500 metre to the northwest.
