Extract from MINFILE 092K 106:
The Don showing is located on McConnell Creek which drains west- ward into the Britain River. The area is underlain by a composite biotite porphyry granite stock of probable Lower Tertiary age, cored by a quartz feldspar porphyry granite phase. The stock intrudes granodiorites and diorites of the Cretaceous Coast Plutonic Complex. The quartz feldspar porphyry granite phase of the stock hosts the best molybdenum/copper mineralization and strongest alteration. Mineralization consists of widespread, locally significant, but generally low grade molybdenite, chalcopyrite and pyrite. The most widespread and common alteration types are sericite and quartz veinlets.
A well defined east trending fracture zone along McConnell Creek may have controlled the emplacement of the intrusion and the mineralization as three of the four exposures are located within and immediately adjacent to the creek (Lower, Star and Upper). The fourth (called South) is on a steep slope 450 metres south of McConnell Creek in an east trending fracture zone that parallels the creek.
A representative chip sample over 10 metres at the Lower exposure assayed 0.104 per cent molybdenum and 0.230 per cent copper (Assessment Report 15167).
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