The Currie occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 1600 metres on a northeast-facing slope, south of Cedar Creek and approximately 4.3 kilometres northwest of Ainsworth.

Regionally, the area is underlain by hornblende schists, limestone and banded quartzite of the Upper Mississippian to Permian Milford Formation and basaltic volcanic rocks of the Carboniferous to Permian Kaslo Group. Granodioritic intrusive rocks of the Middle Jurassic Nelson Batholith are exposed to the west.

Locally, argillites and limestones associated with 1- to 2-metre wide shear zones host quartz±calcite veins with sphalerite-galena-pyrite mineralization.

Work History

A historical shaft and number of pits, likely dating to the early 1900s, are reported in the occurrence area.

In 1956, Highland-Bell Ltd. conducted a program of geological mapping on the area as the Big Bluff, Fred, Mar and Nick groups of claims.

In 1996, a program of prospecting and geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling was conducted by George Addie on the area as the Silver Hoard property. A rock sample (90406) from a shear zone in limestone assayed 21.2 grams per tonne silver, and a sample (90405) of quartz veined limestone from the shaft dump yielded greater than 1.00 gram per tonne gold, greater than 30 grams per tonne silver and 0.15 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 25055). Also at this time, two samples (90244 and 90246) from trench CT4 yielded 67.4 and 47.5 grams per tonne silver with 0.43 and 0.22 gram per tonne gold, respectively (Assessment Report 25055).

During 2007 through 2011, Goldcliff Resource Corp. completed programs of prospecting, geological mapping, geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling and an airborne geophysical survey on the regionally extensive Ainsworth Silver property. In 2015, Goldcliff Resource Corp. conducted a program of prospecting, geological mapping, geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling and a 4.1 line-kilometre ground electromagnetic survey on the area as part of the Ainsworth Silver property.

In 2020 and 2021, Goldcliff Resource Corp. conducted a further program of geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling and a 508.0 line-kilometre airborne magnetic, electromagnetic and radiometric survey on the Ainsworth Silver property.