The RAVEN showing is situated in the Genevieve Range at headwaters of a southwest flowing stream between Ewart Lake and Louie Bay (Nuchatlitz Inlet) on the west side of Nootka Island.
The Raven property encompasses 6,625 hectares and overlies a recently discovered belt of altered, Pennsylvanian to Permian Sicker group volcanic and sedimentary rocks located on Nootka Island. Silica-rich float containing massive and banded sulphides with as much as 0.5 per cent copper was discovered during a prospecting program completed in February 2000. Regional stream sediment geochemistry shows highly anomalous gold and copper values over the area covered by the Raven property.
Cream Minerals Ltd. announced an option agreement on June 21, 2000, with Raven discoverers Michael Moore, Dr. Paul Metcalfe and Seamus Young. Cream followed up by exploring this new discovery with a Dighem airborne geophysical survey and was able to identify a series of strong magnetic anomalies.
In 2001, prospecting occurred at the headwaters of two creeks which drain a weak conductor and associated magnetic anomaly identified by the airborne geophysical survey. The geophysical anomalies are parallel to stratigraphy.
An area of arsenopyrite mineralization is exposed in subcrop at the source of one of the creeks. The mineralization contains values of gold as high as 0.5 gram per tonne and lies 1.5 kilometres along strike from an arsenic soil anomaly identified by earlier sampling (Press Release, Cream Silver Ltd., August 13, 2001). Massive sulphide mineralization was discovered as float at the source of the second creek, a further 500 metres along the strike of regional stratigraphy.
Fieldwork has confirmed the presence of sulphide mineralization over a strike length of two kilometres, associated with an airborne geophysical conductor and with stratigraphy. This mineralization is anomalous in gold. The anomaly is open in both directions along strike. Stream sediment samples, taken from creeks draining a further seven kilometres of projected strike, are all anomalous in arsenic and some are anomalous in gold.
In 2012, J.T. Shearer conducted an airphoto interpretation of the property. The most prominent Airphoto linears on the property are NW-SE and reflect the trend of the underlying rock formations. Strong magnetic linears are also parallel to these NW-SE Airphoto linears. Primary bedrock structures/faults appear to be reflected by North to North-Northeast linears along major ridges. Rare northeast linears reflect less well-developed structures. The north linears suggest a right lateral offset to the lithological linears (Assessment Report 34102).
