The Zip phosphate prospect is located on Morris Creek, 2.5 kilometres west of the Flathead River, 44 kilometres southeast of Fernie.

A pelletal phosphorite bed 0.7 metres thick occurs at the base of the Jurassic Fernie Group and unconformably overlies dolomite and silty dolomite of the Triassic Sulphur Mountain Formation (Spray River Group). The phosphorite is overlain by vanadium-rich shales. The bed is repeated at least three times by thrust faulting and is truncated by a body of trachytic syenite. A sample taken across a thickness of 0.7 metres assayed 27.1 per cent P2O5 (Open File 1987-16, page 95, sample SBB86-15D).

First Nuclear Corp. carried out geological mapping and trenching in 1980.