The Viking showings are located on March Creek, east of the Robertson River and approximately 5 kilometres south of Mesachie Lake. There are remains of an old cabin at the 610 metre level and an opencut was developed on a quartz vein in the early 1900's.
The area is underlain by volcanic rocks of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group) and diorite, granodiorite and quartz diorite of the Early to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite. The showing is underlain by basalt which is cut by an irregular body of feldspar porphyry (probably Jurassic in age). Both have been cut by several tight shear zones which have been locally silicified and weakly mineralized with quartz and disseminated chalcopyrite.
The main showing consists of a high grade chalcopyrite shoot in a quartz vein structure about 1.8 metres in width. An adit was driven, on Viking 2 claim, on the shoot at the 762 metre level for 82.3 metres. The adit was cleared and examined in 1967 (Property File - Elwell, J.P.). A mineralized fault/shear hosts a sinuous quartz vein, averaging 10 centimetres in width, which is heavily mineralized at intervals with chalcopyrite. It was reported that the vein was widening and mineralization improving below the level, but this could not be checked as the cut was filled with water.
Five zones of mineralization have been outlined on the Viking property. These consist of two types of mineralization: 1) vein in shear zones hosted in volcanics and 2) disseminated mineralization in basalts and related rocks.
A mineralized fault zone, striking northwest and dipping at about 60 degrees east, comprises Zone 1. The hanging wall of the fault can be traced by a steep rocky bluff with malachite-stained and copper mineralized float found downslope. Above the adit, near the post of Viking 1 and 2 claims, trenching revealed fractured volcanics with veins and masses of quartz and chalcopyrite. This zone may be part of a shear zone parallel to that found in the adit. A grab sample assayed 7.65 per cent copper with 30.852 grams per tonne silver (Property File - Elwell, 1967).
Zone 2 is located 106 metres northeast of the adit, at 542 metres elevation. The zone consists of a shear in basaltic rocks which outcrop on a steep bluff. Blasting of the bluff has exposed a well-fractured shear zone containig quartz stringers with pyrite, chalcopyrite and bornite as disseminations, small blebs and fracture- fillings. Malachite is present as surface alteration. Two samples, taken across 1.83 metres, assayed 4.6 and 1.05 per cent copper respectively, with 33.78 grams per tonne silver (Property File - Elwell, 1967).
Zone 3 occurs on the Viking 3 claim, 366 metres to the northwest of Zone 1. Stripping has revealed a pod of magnetic basalt, mineralized with chalcopyrite. Copper-stained and mineralized volcanics have also been noted.
Zones 4 and 5 comprise pyrite, chalcopyrite and bornite as fracture-fillings and disseminations in basaltic rocks. These have not been located, but occur in this area.
In 2007, D. Herriott and D.A. Brouwer completed a prospecting program on the Viking property. Access was reportedly difficult and the showings could not be located.
