The Pat occurrence is located about 44 kilometres southeast of Dease Lake.
Chalcopyrite and molybdenite have been reported at several locations. The showings occur in an area intruded by the Late Triassic Cake Hill pluton which consists of hornblende quartz monzodiorite, granodiorite, weakly to moderately foliated monzodiorite (and metamorphosed equivalents) and rare hornblende diorite.
Mineralization occurs within intrusive rocks as disseminations in scattered altered zones and as massive siliceous veins. Roof pendants of metamorphic rock occurring on the ridges also have associated veins and disseminations. A few small pockets of disseminated molybdenite have been observed. Massive to nearly massive chalcopyrite and pyrite occur with quartz in angular float.
In 1972, the Pat claims were prospected by owner L. Elliot and 113 soil samples were collected. Tormex Resources Limited held title to the land in 1977 (MAC, MKS, RMK, Brad, Horn and Jim claims) conducting over 7 kilometres of induced polarization survey, 6.6 kilometres of magnetometer survey and an unspecified amount of seismic work; they also collected 235 soil samples.
In 2011, a British Columbia Geological Survey bedrock mapping crew conducted a survey in the area of the Pat showing. They examined the showing and collected one rock sample for assay from an outcrop where mineralization was characterized by 1 to 10 millimetre pyrite plus/minus copper sulphide veins with silicified haloes. The sample from this location yielded 0.3 per cent copper and slightly elevated gold and silver (sample 11BVA13-74, Table 2; Fieldwork 2011, pages 112, 115). The Fieldwork 2011 authors reported that veins are hosted by biotite-hornblende quartz monzonite and quartz monzodiorite, most likely related to the Cake Hill pluton. Biotite quartz monzonite and quartz monzodiorite, interpreted as the central felsic phase of the Three Sisters Plutonic Suite, are exposed 100 metres to the northeast of the Pat mineral occurrence (Figure 3c; Fieldwork 2011, page 102).
In 2012, Quartz Mountain Resources Ltd., on the Galaxie property, conducted systematic soil and induced polarization surveys over eight high-priority grids and two target areas identified by the 2011 stream sediment and soil geochemical results. This work included an induced polarization survey over almost the entirety of title 512878 and the southeastern third of title 604847.
