The Whitewater South occurrence is located near the Kaslo-New Denver Highway, north of the Kaslo River and approximately 13.2 kilometres northwest of Kaslo.

The area is underlain by black fissile phyllites with interbedded limestone, calcareous phyllites and brown gritty quartzites of the Triassic Slocan Group. The general structural trend is 310 degrees, dipping generally southwest. Greenstones and ultramafic rocks of the Permian Kaslo Group unconformably underlie the Slocan Group to the east. Satellite stocks, dikes and sills are generally correlative with the Nelson Batholith to the immediate south. Late-stage lamprophyre dikes are also common.

Locally, a hematite-altered phyllite with quartz veins, up to 0.2 metre wide, hosts gold and silver values.

In 2020, a float sample (WWS-20-44R) from a 1 by 0.5 metre boulder of hematite-altered phyllite with a 0.5-metre thick quartz vein assayed 135 grams per tonne silver and 242 grams per tonne gold, whereas a nearby outcrop sample (WWS-20-46R) of hematite-altered phyllite with a 0.2-metre-thick quartz vein assayed 0.488 gram per tonne gold (Sultan, M. [2021-04-24]: NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Whitewater Property, Slocan Mining Division, Kaslo, British Columbia, Canada).

Work History

In 2020, Traction Exploration Inc. completed a program of geological mapping and rock sampling on the area as the Whitewater property.