The Little River claim blocks are located 5 km north-northwest of the former Brunswick #12 mine.

Thrusted basement sediments (Patrick Brook Formation) overlie a thin band of younger Ordovician Little River red manganiferous shale and chert (OLRsr), which is in contact with an outcropping band of Nepisiguit Falls (NF) Formation QFP crystal tuff [refer to geology maps in Teck Corporation (Corp.) reports of work 474429 (1994) and 474201 (1992)]. This outcrop of quartz-eye schist and crystal tuff was mapped and described by Teck Corp. in report 474201 (1992) as “footwall felsic volcanics”. It is located approximately 150 meters north of a very strong MegaTEM conductor (from two flight lines) on claim block 11618.  This same Teck Corp. report indicated several geochemically anomalous rocks (Cu, Pb, Zn) in altered felsic volcanic outcrop about 200 meters east of the eastern boundary of claim block 11168.  The mapped felsic volcanic NF formation appears to trend east-west, before being offset by a northwest/southeast trending fault.  The proximity of Nepisiguit Falls QFP stratigraphy to the very strong MegaTEM anomalies suggests that detailed follow-up is warranted.

Several very shallow holes were drilled and reported in file 475305 (Noranda Inc.) to map lithology on the western part of the claim block. An earlier drill hole NH5302 (report 470377, 1953) was collared about 200 meters west-northwest of the very strong MegaTEM conductor, but it appears to have been drilled almost parallel to it (at 67 degrees azimuth) and intersected graphitic sediments. Harrigan Mines (1953) drilled hole NH5305 (report 470377) in which the log indicates a long section of rhyolite at the bottom of the hole [from 377-500 feet (end of hole)], with some phases “very pyritic”.

The combination of an extremely strong airborne MegaTEM conductor located about 60 meters north of the very strong magnetic and gravity anomaly, and Teck Corp.’s “footwall felsic volcanic outcrop” mapped just north of the MegaTEM anomalies, along with the presence of rhyolite reported for drill hole NH5305 (1953) suggests that the property area warrants further investigation.