The South Soup occurrence is located approximately 14 kilometres east of Dortatelle Peak, on the southwest facing slope of the ridge separating Croydon and Kliyul creeks. The original claims were staked by Leitch Gold Mines Ltd. in 1947 as the Shell Group. In 1964 the claims were re-staked as the Soup claims by H. White. The location is centered on the southern skarn zone on the Soup 13 claim (Property File - Athlone Resources Ltd., Prospectus, 1988).

Regionally, the area is underlain by a northwest trending assemblage of Upper Triassic Takla Group volcanics and sediments. These make up part of the Quesnel Terrane. The Takla Group rocks are intruded, to the south, by the Early Jurassic Hogem batholith. To the east, the rocks are intruded by leucocratic granodiorite of the Early Cretaceous Kliyul Creek body. Two, northwest trending, elongate, Alaskan-type ultramafic bodies also occur in the general area. Smaller faults trend northwest but the major structure in the area is the north-trending Dortatelle fault.

Locally, the oldest exposed rocks are interfingered andesitic flows intruded by augite porphyry dykes. These flows grade into a succession of augite porphyry flows with minor intercalations of calcareous andesitic tuffs. This stratigraphic succession has been intruded by diorite stocks, dikes and sills, micro-diorites and quartz monzonite of the Early Cretaceous Kliyul Creek body (Assessment Report 21521).

Massive, northwest trending, stratiform lenses (or beds) of skarn occur near the base of the augite porphyry. The skarn is magnetite-rich with appreciable concentrations of gold and copper. At least 3 skarn horizons are recognized and possibly represent the replacement of calcareous tuffs (Assessment Report 16655). The skarn occurs as a series of parallel lenses, 1 to 5-metres thick, which are intermittently exposed for distances up to several hundred metres along strike.

Massive magnetite is concentrated, 60 to 100 per cent, near the top of the horizons. Peripheral zones, 5 to 20 metres thick, of disseminated magnetite, pyrite and chalcopyrite underlie most massive horizons. Lenses of massive pyrite occur within or adjacent to these zones. Outcrops of skarn are characteristically highly oxidized and contain epidote, actinolite and fine-grained garnet. Malachite, azurite and hematite are common oxidation features.

Cross-cutting faults, which offset the skarn horizons, contain similar mineralization within quartz-magnetite veins. Samples from these veins assayed up to 68.91 grams per tonne gold (Property File - Athlone Resources Ltd., Prospectus, 1988).

Skarn mineralization, at the plotted location, occurs at the contact between a feldspar-rich andesite and a porphyritic (augite) andesite near the Kliyul Creek body.

On the Soup 8 and 10 claims the mineral deposit was described as being 450 metres in length and varied in thickness from 3 to 30 metres. A displaced segment, 120 meters long and 9 metres thick, was exposed on the Soup 7 claim. Surface samples taken in 1964 on the Soup 8 and 10 claims assayed from 0.4 to 1.4 per cent copper and averaged 3.4 grams per tonne gold (EMPR PF Cyprus Anvil McTaggart, K.C., 1965). In 1971, three packsack holes were drilled on the Soup 10 claim. The first hole was 4.5 metres long and averaged 0.37 per cent copper over 3 metres. The other two holes were drilled for a length of 7.5 metres; averaging 0.16 per cent copper over 6 metres and 0.28 per cent copper over 7.5 metres. Gold values ranged from 0.34 to 1.0 grams per tonne (EMPR PF Cyprus Anvil McTaggart, K.C., 1971).

In 1992 Noranda carried out 1:5,000 scale geological and alteration mapping and in 1993, they drilled 6 reverse circulation holes on the Kliyul skarn zone (Assessment Report 23033) and followed up with an airborne magnetic, EM, and radiometric survey that extended to the south (Assessment Report 23379). This airborne survey also covered (or nearly covered) 25 MINFILE occurrences including Soup (094D 025), South Soup (094D 105) and UPC (094D 183)

In 1996, drilling (9 holes) by Vital Pacific Resources Ltd. and Athlone Resources Ltd. targeted a northwesterly-trending magnetite-rich auriferous zone containing at least three stratiform lenses. In 1997, three holes were drilled, the best returning 0.3 per cent copper and 1.5 grams per tonne gold over 8 metres (GCNL #151(Aug.7), 1997).

Refer to Soup (094D 025) for a detailed, common work history.