The Peace occurrence, located 3 kilometres northeast of Mount Selwyn and 84 kilometres north of the town of MacKenzie, is hosted in Paleozoic platformal carbonates of the Ancestral North America terrane.

Silurian Nonda Formation, Silurian to Devonian Muncho-McConnell Formation and Lower and Middle Devonian Stone Formation and Middle Devonian Dunedin Formation carbonates and minor clastics, overlain by Devonian and Mississippian Besa River Formation shale, comprise a Paleozoic platformal sequence near the western facies change to basinal shale. The Stone Formation is thrust over the Dunedin Formation at the Peace showing.

Disseminated galena, sphalerite and oxidized equivalents, hosted in Stone or Dunedin dolomite breccia, are exposed over an area 400 by 50 metres. Lying along an apparent southwest-dipping thrust fault, there is uncertainty as to which unit the Peace showing is hosted in and how much fault control exists. Two holes drilled on the occurrence failed to intersect significant grades.

In 1975, a chip sample (J75-500R) assayed 2.36 per cent lead over 2.5 metres, whereas grab samples (J75-502R) of oxidized rubble yielded 17.20 per cent lead and 4.25 per cent zinc over an area of 6 by 4 metres (Assessment Report 5643).

Work History

In 1972, Trojan Consolidated Mines completed a program of prospecting, geological mapping and geochemical (silt and soil) sampling on the area immediately north of the occurrence as the Cliff, Jim, Lost and Snow claims.

In 1975, Aquitaine Co. of Canada Ltd. completed a program of prospecting, geological mapping, geochemical (rock and soil) sampling and an induced polarization survey on the area as the Jet claims. The following year, Aquitane Co. completed a program of geological mapping and 22 short diamond drill holes, totalling 595.0 metres, on the claims.