The Snapper showing is located in the headwaters of the Nitinat River, approximately 22 kilometres south east of Port Alberni, slightly east of the Tan (092F 398) showing.

The area, located in the Cowichan uplift, is underlain by volcanics and minor sediments of the Upper Devonian McLaughlin Ridge Formation (formerly the Myra Formation) and the Devonian Nitinat Formation, Sicker Group. Diabase and gabbro dykes and sills, consid- ered to be coeval with the Triassic Karmutsen Formation, outcrop to the south.

The showing occurs in volcanic and sedimentary rocks of the Nitinat Formation. These comprise basalt, andesite, flow breccia, volcaniclastic sediments, greywacke, siltstone, argillite and black chert. Quartz-carbonate veins hosted in shear zones are mineralized with pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite and galena. Disseminated sulphides also occur in carbonatized volcanics. Shear zones extend 600 metres along strike and are up to 10 metres wide.

In 1985, stream sediment and rock sampling were performed on the area as the Matt claims. In 1987, Swift Minerals completed a program of geological mapping, magnetometer and VLF-EM geophysical surveys, geochemical sampling and trenching. A grab sample across 10 centimetres of a quartz vein striking 170 degrees with vertical dips and containing 7 per cent sulphides assayed 3.154 grams per tonne gold and 119.98 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 17058).

In 1988, Saga resources completed a five hole diamond drilling program on the Pacific 1-4 claims, to the north. In 1993, Calcap Investments completed a VLF-EM program on the Pacific claims. During 1995 through 1998, G. Westgate and L. Sookochoff completed programs of prospecting, geological mapping and soil geochemical survey on the Pacific claims.