The Von 2 South showing is located on the Von 2 claim, at the end of Cullen Creek, a tributary of the Bear River, about 50 kilometres northeast of Stewart.
The area is underlain by Lower Jurassic Hazelton Group rocks. The northwest trending contact between the Betty Creek Formation and the underlying Unuk River Formation is near the showing. The Betty Creek Formation comprises bedded purple to green volcanic sandstone and siltstone with sporadic intercalated andesitic volcanic flows, chert and minor carbonate lenses. Unuk River Formation rocks comprise green-grey argillaceous siltstones and lithic greywackes intercalated with coarsely layered volcanic sandstone and tuff. This sequence also includes pyritic, propylitized and deformed amygdaloidal andesitic flows and lenses irregularly intercalated with the siltstones. Thin lenticular rhyodacite flows interfinger with the more thinly bedded siltstone sequence near the contact.
A north trending fracture zone has developed oblique to the Cullen Creek fault/shear zone in the northwest corner of the Von 2 claim (104A 170). The Cullen Creek valley is the main shear zone in the area.
In 1990, grab samples were taken from this area (samples GW-R-1 to 6, Assessment Report 20784). These samples were taken from 1) a quartz lens hosted in siltstone in a shear, mineralized with pyrite and minor malachite, and 2) a quartz-carbonate vein, 0.5 to 1.2 metres wide, with pyrite and galena blebs throughout. No assay results are available.
The area has seen some exploration activity, primarily associated with the Crown-granted claims. There are no records of this work but there is evidence of prospecting and trenching. The work was most likely done in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1989, the Barite and Von claims were acquired by Teuton Resources. In 1990, Teuton Resources conducted stream sediment sampling, geological mapping, rock geochemical sampling and prospecting. In 1991, Teuton conducted geochemical (soil and silt) and rock sampling. The showing was not included in this work. During 2005 through 2010, Auramex completed programs of prospecting, geological mapping, geochemical sampling and airborne geophysical surveys on the area as the Bear River-Surprise Creek property.
