The Aspen occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 1020 metres on a north- to northeast-facing slope, south of the Nechako Reservoir and approximately 14 kilometres northeast of Mount Swannell.

Regionally, the area is underlain by undivided volcanic rocks of the Middle Jurassic Naglico Formation (Hazelton Group), coarse clastic sedimentary rocks of the Middle to Upper Jurassic Ashman Formation (Bowser Lake Group) and felsic volcanic rocks of the Eocene Ootsa Lake Formation (Nechako Plateau Group). Small bodies of Eocene gabbroic to dioritic rocks intrude the strata.

Locally, a quartz-eye rhyolite hosts quartz-jasper-magnetite veins, up to 5 centimetres wide, with rare sulphides and jarosite staining.

In 2017, a sample (2948130) from the Aspen zone assayed 29.5 grams per tonne silver and 0.14 per cent zinc, whereas another sample (2948251) of basalt with calcite, taken approximately 700 metres south of the previous sample, assayed 0.337 per cent copper (Assessment Report 37406). Previous sampling of outcrops from the Aspen, in the 1980s, is reported to have yielded up to 30.1 grams per tonne silver and 0.16 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 37406).

Also at this time, a float sample (2948139) of oxidized mudstone with veins of pyrite, sphalerite and possibly arsenopyrite and galena from the Bruin zone, located approximately 2.5 kilometres northeast of the Aspen occurrence, yielded 0.235 gram per tonne gold, 9.4 grams per tonne silver and greater than 1.00 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 37406).

In 2019, two float samples (2948026 and 2948027) mineralized siltstone from the Bruin zone yielded values of up to 8.3 grams per tonne silver and both greater than 1.00 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 38932).

Work History

During 1980 through 1985, JMT Services completed programs of geological mapping and geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling on the area as the Aspen claim.

In 2010, Gordon G. Richards completed a program of rock sampling on the area as the Aspen claim.

In 2017, J. Bond Capital Corp. completed a program of prospecting, geochemical (silt, soil and rock) sampling and geological mapping on the area as the Aspen 1-2 claims.

In 2019, Bond Resources Inc. completed a program of rock and soil sampling on the Aspen property.