The Woss Lake No. 2 occurrence location is poorly defined but is believed to coincide with those of the Wost Hope Number 2 claim (Assessment Report 4568). This is located at approximately 650 metres elevation on a north west facing slope, approximately 3.2 kilometres south east of Torback Creeks mouth on Woss Lake.
The region of the Woss Lake occurrence is underlain by a thick sequence of north trending, gently west dipping tholeiitic basalts of the Upper Triassic Vancouver Group, Karmutsen Formation which is in fault contact with andesitic to dacitic basalts and minor sediments of the Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group. Granodiorite of the Late Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite has intruded the older rocks. The presence of a 60 to 90 metre limestone unit interbedded with basalts suggests that the rocks at the occurrence are part of the Bonanza Group.
At the occurrence, amygdaloidal, porphyritic and fine-grained basalts are intruded by a complex of reddish porphyritic monzonite dykes related to a granodiorite batholith one kilometre to the north- east. The contact between the basalts and the granodiorite dips southwest at 26 degrees.
Mineralization at the No. 2 occurrence of consists of scattered pods of chalcopyrite in quartz lenses in epidotized basalts over a vertical, 305 degree striking zone 3.7 metres wide and 12 metres long. In 1985, sampling of the area yielded up to 0.249 per cent copper, 14.2 grams per tonne silver and 0.45 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 14413).
At the West Hope 2 occurrence a 15 centimetre wide massive chalcopyrite quartz vein is reported. In 1972, a sample (R11-12) assayed 16.6 per cent copper, 1.0 grams per tonne gold and 85.7 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 4568, page 6).
In 1965, Empire Development completed a program of geological mapping and a dip needle survey on the are as the Woss Lake 1-6 claims. In 1972 and 1973, programs of geological mapping and ground electromagnetic and magnetic surveys were completed. In 1985, Archer Minerals completed a program of rock and soil sampling.
