The Silver Hoard North occurrence is located along a logging road at approximately 1100 metres elevation, south of Lendrum Creek and approximately 4.8 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, quartz-calcite veins host galena-sphalerite-pyrite mineralization.

In 1996, a rock sample (90211) assayed 4.07 per lead, 2.53 per cent zinc and 279.3 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 25055).

Work History

The area has been historically explored in conjunction with the nearby Silver Glance (MINFILE 082FNE010) and Noranda (MINFILE 082FNE038) occurrences, and a complete regional exploration history can be found there.

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.

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 2012, David Wallach prospected and rock sampled the area as the Ainsworth 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.