The SHULAPS NI showing is situated in Blue Creek approximately 1.2 kilometres upstream from the Yalakom River, 32 kilometres northeast of Gold Bridge, B.C.

The most detailed exploration in this area was the Shulaps Project by International Corona Corporation in the 1980's. In 1988 and 1999 Corona conducted a broad grassroots exploration program including stream geochemical sampling, prospecting and airborne geophysics. Their work identified numerous gold in stream sediment anomalies. A single 64 metre long trench excavated in the Blue Creek area in 1990 returned consistent low-grade nickel values but only minor anomalous gold values (Assessment Report 21628).

Crucible Resources explored much of this south Shulaps Ultramafic area from 2007 to 2009, identifying an area on the northeast side of the Shulaps Range between Peridotite and Retaskit creeks, where surface samples gave consistently high values for nickel in ultramafic rocks ranging from 0.17 to 0.33 per cent nickel (Assessment Reports 30145 and 30616). In 2012 and 2013, 2313245 Ontario Inc. conducted a broad program of rock geochemical sampling, with many samples returning values of 0.2 to 0.3 per cent nickel (Assessment Report 34196).

Crucible's work continued in 2022, with geochemical sampling of seven rocks from the Blue Creek and Peridotite Creek areas. Five samples showed elevated nickel values between 0.18 and 0.24 per cent. Sample number CR22087-1 from an iron-stained, oxidized mafic outcrop in Blue Creek returned values of 0.21 per cent nickel and 0.01 per cent cobalt. Two metallurgical tests conducted in 2022 on rusty harzburgite rocks collected previously from the Peridotite Creek area, approximately 2 kilometres south of SHULAPS NI, achieved significant levels of nickel extraction from silicate matrices (Assessment Report 41105).