The claims are situated within the Selwyn Basin and are underlain by Hyland Group, Road River and Earn Group sediments. This particular succession of rocks covers a large area of Selwyn Basin and has largely been the focus of SEDEX style lead-zinc exploration modeled after Howards Pass. Structurally-hosted silver mineralization also occurs within this succession of rocks at the nearby Plata property.

Staking was carried out to cover anomalous gold response (values range from 1 to 27 ppb) from the regional government stream sediment geochemical database. While much of the historical exploration in the vicinity of the new claims was focused toward SEDEX style lead-zinc mineralization, this work identified abundant anomalous silver values ranging from 0.1 g/t to 23.9 g/t from soils and 0.4 g/t to 8.6 g/t silver from stream sediments. None of the anomalies were reportedly followed up or explained.

In addition to the anomalous historical silver values, elevated pathfinder geochemistry is reported in both the government data and the prior operator’s work, particularly for arsenic, antimony and molybdenum.