The Nic East occurrence is located in the eastern head waters of the Klaskish River, at an elevation of approximately 570 metres.

The area lies within the Insular Belt of the Cordillera and is underlain mainly by volcanics, crystalline rocks and minor sediments. Andesitic to rhyodacitic lava, tuff and breccia of the Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group overlie an assemblage consisting of sediments of the Paleozoic Sicker Group and basalts and minor carbonate and clastic sediments of the Upper Triassic Vancouver Group. The Bonanza volcanics are coeval with, or genetically related to, granodiorite stocks of the Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite, which intrude all older rocks.

Locally, an undefined area of quartz diorite hosts up to 20 per cent quartz-chalcopyrite stockwork veins. A grab sample (17442) assayed 5.55 grams per tonne silver and 1.82 per cent copper (Assessment Report 31915).

Work History

During 2010 through 2012, Compliance Energy completed programs of geological mapping and rock, soil and silt sampling and 470 kilometres of airborne magnetic, electromagnetic and radiometric geophysical surveys on the area as the Nic property. In 2019, First Geolas Consulting completed a minor program of prospecting and rock sampling on the area as the Nic property.

The area has been previously explored in conjunction with the Fang (MINFILE 092L 265) occurrence.