The Stranger occurrence is located on Tutizika River, approximately 6 kilometres west of the confluence with the Mesilinka River, 95 kilometres northwest of the community of Germansen Landing.

Hostrocks are locally calcareous, black slaty argillites assigned to the Upper Devonian to Permian Big Creek Group. Other lithologies in the area include mafic volcanic rocks, dark green tuffs, phyllite and graphitic schist (Assessment Report 17442).

Mineralization consists of a network of narrow quartz and quartz-calcite veins (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 274, page 222) sparsely mineralized with pyrite and chalcopyrite (Assessment Report 17442). The largest single vein is about 10 centimetres wide, but in one place an aggregate width of 60 centimetres of vein material occurs over a width of 3 metres of rock (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 274, page 222).

In 1929, the Stranger group of claims were staked.

In 1987, Skylark Resources Ltd. conducted reconnaissance prospecting, rock chip sampling and mapping of veins and alteration zones on the Ice, Matel and Black Gold claims; geological mapping, prospecting, silt (4), soil (125) and rock chip (19) sampling were also carried out on the Dolly 1-2 claims which cover the Zip (094C 142), Stranger, Mercury 1 (094C 041) and Mercury 2 (094C 042) showings.