The Carpenters showing is located on the southeast side of O'Neil Creek (Kshwan River), 12 kilometres northeast of Hastings Arm. The area was initially prospected in 1922 and unsuccessful attempts were made to re-locate this showing in 1982-83 and in 1994-95.
The region is underlain by volcanics and sediments of the Upper Triassic Stuhini Group and the Lower Jurassic Hazelton Group which are intruded by Eocene Coast Plutonic Complex rocks to the west. These rocks have been regionally metamorphosed to greenschist facies.
The showing consists of three parallel quartz veins, striking 148 degrees hosted in Stuhini Group black argillite and siltstone. The veins are mineralized with pyrite and minor chalcopyrite. A cross vein striking diagonally to the other veins is reported to contain native gold.
Initial prospecting in the area undertaken prior to 1922 resulted in the discovery of the Carpenter polymetalllc vein occurrence. There are no records of subsequent work in this difficult-to-access area until the mid-1960s when a Newmont helicopter-supported stream sediment geochemical survey identified anomalous molybdenum and other base metals values in several of the drainages now covered by the Time claims (ca. 1995). Limited follow-up work was undertaken at this time. Claims were relocated in 1981 on the basis of anomalous base metal and indicator element values in stream sediments which had been identified by a 1979 Provincial Government regional geochemical survey. Exploratory work between 1981 and 1991 included several stream sediment and soil qeochemical surveys, prospecting and bedrock sampling and a three hole (215 metres) diamond drilling program. The Time 1 and 2 mineral claims were located by L.B. Warren in late March of 1994. Subsequent work, undertaken in September of the same year, included a geological reconnaissance of the property, a brief examination of 1985 drill cores, and the collection of nine stream sediment and five rock samples. The 1995 program on the Time mineral claims included the collection and subsequent analyses of 13 stream sediment and one rock sample.
