The Nickel-Nut occurrence is located west of the Pack River and approximately 1.5 kilometres east-southeast of the southeast end of Royer Lake.

Regionally, the area is underlain by mudstone, siltstone, shale, fine clastic sedimentary rocks and basaltic volcanic rocks of the upper Triassic to Jurassic Takla Group and ultramafic rocks of Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic age.

On the Nickel-1 claim of the Nut claim group, there are a few outcrops of strongly altered listwanitic ultramafic rock. The rocks are very rusty from abundant limonite and in a few places have a characteristic green colour caused by disseminated secondary nickel minerals. The nickel bearing formation is up to 10 meters wide and is exposed over 75 meters of length.

Work History

The Father Mark mineral claims were staked in 1988 by Lac Minerals, based on anomalous stream sediment geochemistry results. A soil grid was completed consisting of 43 km of line; 694 soil samples were collected.

In 1997, the area was prospected and sampled as the Bob 1-4 claims. Two rock samples of listwanite yielded values of up to 0.125 per cent nickel and 0.136 per cent chromium (Assessment Report 25251).

A couple dozen rock grab samples taken from this altered ultramafic rock by prospector Robert Omond (in 1977) and geologist Ed Kruchkowski (in 2004)) yielded anomalous values in nickel, chromium and copper. All samples collected in 2004 were also assayed for platinum but no anomalous values were detected. In 2006, Mountain Boy Minerals completed a short drilling program on the Nickel-1 claim.

The 2006 diamond drill program was designed to test very strongly altered ultramafic rocks with strong “nickel bloom” stain and pentlandite mineralization. Three diamond drill holes totaling 230.8 metres were drilled. Hole three encountered highly sheared serpentinized pyroxenite from 8.2 to 35.1 metres, and limestone and shale throughout the remainder of the hole. At the contact with the limestone, the hole intersected a 1.4-meter section of strongly “nickel bloom” stained silicified limestone. Most nickel values were between 0.1 and 0.2 per cent with a high of 0.2158 per cent (Assessment Report 28535).

In 2007, ATW Ventures Ltd completed a geochemical and trenching program on the Nickel-1, Nut 2-5, and Jack 3, 5, 7, 9,11,13,15 and 17 as well as Carp 11-12-13-14-15 mineral claims. total of 1035 soil and silt samples were collected from grid lines as well as along logging roads. A total of 60 rock samples were taken, mainly from 4 trench areas and over the nickel showing on the Nickel 1 claim. Six grab samples were collected from former trenches yielding up to 0.19 per cent nickel (Walus, A.A. (2008-03-12): National Instrument 43-101F1 Technical Report on Carp Property).

In 2021, a minor program of rock and soil sampling was completed on the area as the Royer Lake property by J.T. Shearer.