The Cowboy zone (on the Pavey property) is located near Pavey, east of Bennett Lake about 70 kilometres west-northwest of Atlin.

In 1990, Lodestar Explorations Inc. tested the showings on the Pavey property and the Cowboy and Skarn (104M 085) zones were discovered. Refer to the Skarn prospect for a detailed history of the Pavey property.

The Bennett Lake area overlies the contact between the Intermontane Belt and the Coast Plutonic Complex. The Intermontane Belt features a complex assemblage of deformed volcanic and sedimentary rocks comprising the Upper Triassic Stuhini Group, the Lower Jurassic Laberge Group, and Devonian to Middle Triassic Boundary Ranges Metamorphic Suite rocks. Major faults occur primarily along river and lake valleys, associated with movement in the Coast Plutonic Complex and with early Tertiary volcanism.

The zone occurs along the unconformable contact between rocks of the Boundary Ranges Metamorphic Suite and the Lower Jurassic Laberge Group. Trenches and drillholes intersected several narrow, shear hosted, sulphide bearing, quartz-carbonate vein structures. Mineralization consists of stibnite, arsenopyrite, galena, pyrrhotite, pyrite and/or chalcopyrite. The veins, 1 to 10 centimetres wide, are controlled by local fracturing, shearing or faulting. The veins are hosted in quartz-chlorite-actinolite schist, actinolite-chlorite schist and metawackes. These rocks are cut by several shear zones characterized by intense limonitic and hematitic alteration and clay development. Shears generally trend 060 degrees with steep to vertical dips but they also trend north-south with variable dips, usually west.

A sample (99015) over 1 metre assayed 2.29 grams per tonne gold and 32.2 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 20581). Only one drillhole intersection of the quartz-carbonate vein structure contained anomalous gold. A sample from drillhole 90-10 over 2 metres assayed 2.06 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 20581).

In 2009, Troymet Exploration conducted a diamond drilling program and a prospecting and soil/stream sediment sampling program. All drilling targets were confined to the North prospect area (West Gully (104 039), LQ, Stibnite and Cowboy zones). No assessment report was filed for this work. Significant results from the 2009 drilling program included 6.12 metres grading 0.19 gram per tonne gold in Hole N0905 on the Cowboy Zone (as reported in Assessment Report 33081).

Refer to Skarn (104M 085) for details of area work history and geology.