At the headwaters of Granite Creek lies seven placer claims and two leases directly above the Jim Davies discovery at the Brodie Claims on Granite Creek. Property is 70 km from Mayo on government and private roads, 25 km north of the Mayo Dam. Easy road access by pickup and fuel trucks. Room to land a helicopter and an airstrip is nearing completion.

Alpine location mining glacial till.

Properties at the bottom of the valley have been continuously mined since 2014.

The Archer Cathro camp is on the Mel Claims as they perform exploration work on the hard rock claims for Strategic Metals Ltd. and Upper Canada Mining Inc. Excerpt from Strategic Metals Mount Hinton Project webpage (https://www.strategicmetalsltd.com/projects/mount-hinton):
Although silver mineralization is found in veins on the Mount Hinton property, gold is the most significant component in many of the 73 bedrock showings and float occurrences that have been discovered to date. Mineralized shoots on the veins typically grade between 1 and 30 g/t gold, 50 and 1500 g/t silver and 0.5 to 2.5% lead. Maximum grades of 2,340 g/t gold, 30,822 g/t silver, and 75% lead have been returned from rock samples. Creeks draining the property have yielded significant placer gold production and are still being mined. Previous operators identified numerous soil geochemical anomalies and geophysical targets that have not yet been drilled or trenched.