The Verna occurrence is located approximately 11 kilometres northeast of Savage Mountain about 156 kilometres north-northwest of the community of Germansen Landing.

The regional and local geology is similar to that of the Marmot occurrence (MINFILE 094D 005), located approximately 3.3 kilometres to the northwest. The area is underlain by Upper Triassic Savage Mountain Formation (Takla Group) volcanics. These are bounded by the Moose Valley fault to the west and by the north-northwest trending Ingenika fault to the east. An Lower Jurassic quartz monzodiorite stock lies just to the north of the occurrence.

A quartz fissure vein occurs on a ridge top trending 285 degrees with vertical dip. It is up to a metre wide (usually less) and contains bands of quartz with cockscomb quartz rimming fragments and wallrock. Within a hundred metres just off the ridge is an oval epidote zone of greenish rock with slickensides (epidote metadomain), about 10 by 3 metres in dimension. It displays abundant malachite staining. In 1997, a composite chip sample from this zone returned 50,077 parts per million (5 per cent) copper (Open File 2001-2).

Work History

The showing was discovered by the British Columbia Geological Survey during the 1997 field season.

In 2015, High Power Exploration conducted property wide, broadly spaced geochemical sampling and reconnaissance style mapping and prospecting on key target areas on their large Menard property which covers eight occurrences: ARD, 094D 090; Kim, 094D 174; Overstall, 094D 154; Verna (this description); Menard Pass, 094D 049; Garry, 094D 175; Nightfly, 094D 155; and Nikos, 094D 085. A total of 10 days field work were completed and included the collection of 78 stream silt sediment samples of first and second order creeks across the property, the collection of 202 “B” horizon samples on topographic contour lines on approximately 100 metre-spaced samples in areas with outcrop or thin cover, and the collection of 294 "Ah" horizon soil samples on topographic contour lines with 100 metre-spaced samples in areas with thick till cover. Several recorded MINFILE occurrences and key target areas were prospected. A total of 59 rock chip samples were also collected during prospecting traverses.

In 2021, Wedgemount Resources Corp. completed a program of geochemical (rock and soil) sampling and spectral analysis on the area as the regionally extensive Cookie property. A grab sample (D704059) of mineralized breccia yielded 0.94 per cent copper, 14.1 grams per tonne silver and 0.891 gram per tonne gold, while a nearby sample of propylitic-altered basalt with carbonate stockworks and pods of massive molybdenite and bornite assayed 0.43 per cent copper (Assessment Report 40029). Also at this time, three grab samples (D704055 through D704057) of maroon andesite with stockworks of narrow (1- to 5-centimetre wide) quartz-carbonate veins with disseminated to semi-massive pods of bornite and malachite, located approximately 400 to 700 metres east of the Verna occurrence, yielded from 0.553 to 1.495 per cent copper with up to 10.7 grams per tonne silver and 0.108 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 40029).