The Flight 5 showing is located 9 kilometres northeast of the west end of Cowichan Lake.
The area is underlain by volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks of the Paleozoic Sicker Group. These rocks comprise jasper, tuff, basaltic to andesitic agglomerates, volcanic breccia and minor flows of the Upper Devonian McLaughlin Ridge Formation and the Devonian Nitinat Formation. Minor shearing and faulting have been identified in the area.
An extensive jasper body containing minor magnetite occurs at the McLaughlin Ridge Formation\Nitinat Formation contact. A 10-centimetre band of conformable massive pyrrhotite is reported to occur near this contact, however, it does not appear to have been mapped or documented.
The jasper body is 10 to 15 metres thick, traceable for 250 metres, dips vertically and is hosted in basaltic rocks overlain by epiclastic sandstones and siltstones. The jasper is locally broken with minor infillings of magnetite and is laterally succeeded by lenses, blocks or wedges of jasper with minor pyrite. These are overlain by fine-grained chloritic tuff, laminated cherty tuff and finally by hematitic altered lapilli tuff. The tuff contains graphitic partings and quartz veining carrying pyrite and trace chalcopyrite. A 30-centimetre wide associated shear zone contains chlorite, kaolinite, sericite, pyrite, trace chalcopyrite and malachite. Rock samples of the jasper body assayed only low values for gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc (Assessment Report 15887)
In 2017, a rock chip sample (08-E) of magnetite, chalcopyrite and quartz in jasper, taken approximately 700 metres south west of the Flight 5 occurrences plotted location, assayed 0.12 gram per tonne gold, 2.7 gram per tonne silver and 0.223 per cent copper (Assessment Report 38921).
Work History
In 1987 Utah Mines Ltd. conducted a surface sampling and geophysics survey to evaluate massive sulphide potential.
In 2017, Dean Arbic attempted to assay metals of Shaw Creek property rock samples using experimental assay techniques.
In 2019, Dean Arbic continued exploration into mineralization potential of the Shaw Creek property and collected one rock sample.
