The WH 2 occurrence is in the headwaters of Spring Creek, approximately 2.4 kilometres south of Whitehead Lake and 3.5 kilometres northwest of Trout Creek.

The area south of Whitehead Lake is underlain by a granite stock of the Eocene Otter Intrusions. The stock trends west-northwest for 3.5 kilometres and is up to 2.5 kilometres wide. It is situated between the Middle Jurassic Osprey Lake Batholith to the south and west, and the Lower Jurassic Pennask Batholith to the east and north.

Locally, a 14-metre wide dike of biotite-hornblende quartz diorite intrudes quartz feldspar porphyritic monzonite of the Otter Intrusions. The quartz diorite exhibits some fracturing, moderate silica and sericite alteration and weak chloritization. The dike is mineralized with minor disseminated pyrite.

A second zone of mineralization, comprising disseminations and small masses of galena, chalcopyrite and zinc oxide occurring in chloritized granite, near the contact with the quartz feldspar porphyritic monzonite, approximately 100 metres north-northeast of the previous mineralized zone. The granite is cut by fine veinlets of hematite, pyrolusite, siderite and quartz.

In 1988, a sample (L160-R1) from the second zone of mineralization yielded 0.012 gram per tonne gold and 13.3 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 18408, page 13).

In 1989, a chip sample of moderately silicified quartz diorite from the first zone of mineralization yielded 0.03 gram per tonne gold, 33.5 grams per tonne silver and 0.023 per cent copper over 1.5 metres, while a second chip sample of the quartz diorite, 9 metres from the previous sample, yielded 0.25 per cent zinc over 1.5 metres (Assessment Report 19383, page 20).

In 1996, two samples (WH96-R4 and -R5) of mineralized quartz float fragments, located approximately 800 metres northeast of the WH 2 occurrence, yielded value of up to 0.14 gram per tonne gold, 81.4 grams per tonne silver, 0.32 per cent lead, 0.26 per cent zinc and 0.28 per cent molybdenum (Assessment Report 24790).

Work History

In 1971, Royal Canadian Ventures Ltd. completed a soil sampling program on the area as the TC claims.

In 1988, Fairfield Minerals Ltd. completed a program of prospecting and geochemical (rock and soil) sampling on the area as the WH 1-4 claims. The occurrence was discovered in 1989 by Placer Dome Inc. during trenching of a soil geochemical anomaly with elevated gold values. Placer Dome, on the behalf of Fairfield Minerals Ltd., also conducted geological mapping and ground electromagnetic and magnetic surveys on the area.

In 1990, Fairfield Minerals Ltd. completed a program of geochemical (rock and soil) sampling and minor trenching on the WH 1-8 claims. In 1996, a further program of rock and soil sampling was completed on the WH claims.