The Creek showing on the Julio 1-16 claims is located south of the Nation River, approximately 4 kilometres west-southwest of the western end of Tsayta Lake on an unnamed creek.

The area is bounded to the east by Permian sediments of the Cache Creek group and consists of limestone, argillite, and phyllite. Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic volcanics and sediments of the Takla group extend west from the Vital fault to the Takla fault. To the south east a small Permian (?) ultrabasic intrusion that is surrounded by an Early Jurassic quartz monzonite stock (Topley intrusion) occurs. Argillite, limestone and syenite are the most predominant with limestone occurring in isolated areas and on the footwall of the showing.

Locally, pale grey, brown to pinkish, sugary textured ‘syenitic’ dikes, from 0.5 to 2.6 metres wide, host gold and tellurium bearing quartz veins. The dike hosting the main showing has been exposed for up to 110 metres in length and strikes approximately 153 degrees and ranges in dip from 20 to 45 degrees to the southwest.

Alteration consists of limonite and sericite, and the latter is usually found along the margins of the quartz veins and near highly limonitic zones. Weak carbonate alteration of the dike is evident in the groundmass and along some fractures.

Mineralization within the argillite rocks occurs as minor disseminations of pyrite that seldom exceeds 1 to 2 per cent with minor amounts of chalcopyrite.

Work History

In 1984, BP Resources Canada Ltd. completed a program of geochemical (rock, soil, and silt) sampling and geological mapping on the area immediately southwest of the Creek occurrence as the Late 1 claim.

In 1994, Hunting Resources completed a program of geological mapping, geochemical sampling, prospecting and VLF-EM and magnetometer geophysical surveys. A 2.0 metre chip sample, across a mineralized dike, returned 420 parts per million gold, and other singular samples of mineralized vein material returned up to 22.8 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 23502).

In 2019, David. J. Bridge completed a review of the occurrence area as the Den Nation claim.