The Akie South (Southeast Extension) occurrence is located on a low east-southeast–trending ridge, on the west side of the Bear Creek valley and north of the Akie River. The Akie (MINFILE 094F 031) developed prospect is located approximately 2.7 kilometres to the northwest.

Sulphide mineralization is developed within the Gunsteel Formation, an Upper Devonian sequence of graphitic shales overlying Silurian calcareous siltstones of the Road River Group. The Gunsteel is part of the Upper Devonian to Mississippian Earn Group. Mineralization is typically intercalated within the graphitic shales as fine grained, massive to well-bedded pyrite, sphalerite and galena with appreciable barite and carbonate. Remobilized sulphide mineralization occurs as veinlets in the surrounding lithologies.

The Kechika Trough is bounded to the west and east by carbonates and shallow water clastic rocks of the Cassiar and MacDonald platforms, respectively. The Kechika Trough hosts a sequence of upper Devonian to Mississippian basinal facies clastic sedimentary rocks that is a regional target for SEDEX type zinc-lead-silver deposits, such as the nearby Cardiac Creek (MINFILE 094F 031) deposit. The most favourable horizon at the Akie property is a stratiform barite-sulphide layer, hosted within Upper Devonian shales of the Gunsteel Formation. Mapping on the Akie property has identified a number of northwest-trending panels of Gunsteel Formation shales. These shales have been the target of exploration for SEDEX-type ore deposits since 1978.

In 1996, diamond drill hole A-96-20 intersected a 2.2 metre section of silicified fault zone at the contact with the Road River Group yielding 3.59 per cent zinc and 1.54 per cent lead over 1.5 metres, while another drill hole (A-96-22), located approximately 1 kilometre south of the previous hole, intersected 4.6 metres of 30-75 per cent laminar bedded massive pyrite 76 metres above the Gunsteel – Road River contact yielding 1.36 per cent zinc over 1.7 metres (Assessment Report 24703).

In 2013, a single drill hole (A-13-110) was completed on the Southeast Extension area and intersected three distinct nodular to laminar bedded barite units (from 267.98 to 299.02 metres down-hole) that typically mark the contact between the Gunsteel Formation and the Paul River Formation. These baritic units are underlain by a very weakly developed pyritic unit from 306.78 to 309.12 metres. No significant assay results were reported from the hole.

In 2018, drilling on the Southeast Extension zone intersected the Cardiac Creek horizon however the results were nominal.

Work History

The area has been explored in conjunction with the nearby Akie (MINFILE 094F 031) occurrence and an extensive work history can be found there.