The Wasp showing is located 49 kilometres northeast of Smithers and 10 kilometres west of Smithers Landing on Babine Lake.

The area is underlain by the Jurassic Saddle Hill volcanics, an informal subdivision of the Hazelton Group. The volcanic rocks are intruded by biotite feldspar porphyry of the Eocene Babine Intrusions.

Pyrite and traces of chalcopyrite are reported from two diamond-drill holes in porphyry and hornfelsic fragmental volcanic rock (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1968, page 132).

Work History

In 1968, two diamond-drill holes were completed by Mastodon-Highland Bell Mines Limited on the Wasp 1 to 36 claims. The two holes totalled 228 metres of drilling, and magnetometer and induced polarization surveys were completed on four claims and 800 metres of road was constructed.

In 1971-72, Selco Mining Corp. Ltd., re-established the old Wasp grid that had been previously drilled and completed 40 kilometres of line on the Kate claims and 6 kilometres of magnetometer surveying and 4.2 kilometres of induced polarization surveying.

In 2012, some soil sampling grids were completed in the Wasp area by Amarc Resources Ltd. (Assessment Report 33499). An airborne magnetic survey was flown over the Silver Vista claim block on behalf of Amarc Resources for a total of 4729 line kilometres at a spacing of 200 metres (Assessment Report 33499). The airborne survey included the Wasp area.

In 2019, Pacific Empire Minerals consolidated 90 square kilometres of contiguous claims in the Babine copper-gold porphyry district into its Paragon copper-gold project (093M 020, 135, 145) after amalgamating its Wasp property and recently optioned Nilkitkwa property with six claims of newly staked ground.