The Zip showing is located on July Creek, approximately 18.5 kilometres east of Greenwood. The area has been extensively explored as a part of the Greenwood mining camp and the Golden Crown (MINFILE 082ESE032) past producer immediately to the south. A complete history of the area can be found in Assessment Report 30278.

The area is underlain by Permian-aged Knob Hill Group volcanic rocks and chert intruded by Jurassic-– Cretaceous Nelson plutonic diorite plugs. The volcanic unit is overlain by Triassic Brooklyn Formation siltstone and chert pebble conglomerate. The sediment/volcanic contact is speculated to be faulted by the west- dipping Snowshoe Fault.

Mineralization is hosted in quartz- sulphide veins containing pyrrhotite-pyrite and lesser chalcopyrite in a quartz gangue.

In 2003, a 1.0 metre chip was taken across altered volcanic rock, which included a 7 centimetre quartz vein. Sample ZRX-1 yielded 3810 parts per billion gold and 705 parts per million copper (Assessment Report 27535). Drilling, performed in 2005, encountered no significant mineralization and was not assayed (Assessment Report 30278).