The following description is from Still and others (1991). Chalcopyrite-bornite-bearing quartz-calcite veins and chalcopyrite-bearing metabasalt occur in cliffs and in rubble beneath the cliffs on the south side of Mount Ripinski. Almost all of the quartz veins that were sampled contained low gold values, but some veins contained up to 12.0 ppm gold and 3.97% copper. The metabasalt contained up to 0.60 ppm gold and 3.50 % copper. Eighteen of the 27 samples were analyzed for platinum and palladium. They contained from 0.01 to 0.06 ppm palladium and one sample contained 0.01 ppm platinum. This site is immediately north of the Johnson Creek fault which separates metabasalt to the north from Cretaceous ultramafic rocks, including pyroxenite, to the south. Iron deposits associated with pyroxenite are also reported from this general area but no descriptions are given (Redman and others, 1984).