The Gnome (G zone) occurrence is located on a south-facing slope of a generally north-flowing tributary of Akie Creek, approximately 23 kilometres west-southwest of Sikanni Chief Lake.

The stratigraphy of the Gnome area is characterized by tight northwest-trending anticlinal and synclinal folds, west-dipping thrust faults and steep normal faults. A panel of Devonian to Mississippian Earn Group shales are in fault contact with Ordovician to Devonian Road River sediments and carbonates.

Three barite horizons (Dba1, Dba2 and Dba3) and a massive pyrite horizon are hosted within carbonaceous siliceous shales of the Upper Devonian Gunsteel Formation (lower Earn Group).

Locally, heavily altered red-brown sandstones and dark-brown siltstones host pyrite and stringers/nodules of barite.

Work History

In 1980, soil samples from the occurrence area yielded up to 20,200 parts per million zinc (Assessment Report 8478).

In 2018, AsiaBaseMetals Inc. completed a program of soil and rock sampling on the area as the Gnome property. The following year, a program of prospecting, geological mapping, geochemical (rock and soil) sampling and a single diamond drill hole, totalling 140 metres, was completed.

In 2019, three outrcrop grab samples yielded from 0.700 to 1.771 per cent zinc (Pirzada, A. [2020-03-05]: NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Gnome Property Located in the Omineca Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada).

The area has been historically explored in conjunction with the nearby Gnome (MINFILE 094F 016) and Akie (MINFILE 094F 027) occurrences and complete regional exploration histories can be found there.