The Gnome (D Zone) occurrence is located on a gently sloping and west-facing slope of a generally north-flowing tributary of Akie Creek, approximately 25 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.

Locally, a gossanous zone, approximately 300 by 200 metres in size, hosts a dark-brown siltstone/mudstone with 1-2 per cent sulphides comprising chalcopyrite, pyrite and sphalerite. Malachite and azurite staining is also reported.

In 1980, a rock sample from the occurrence area assayed 0.60 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 8478). It is not known if the rock samples came from outcrop or talus.

In 2018, a grab sample (GN18-029R) from outcrop assayed 0.984 per cent zinc, whereas 15 other grab samples from the occurrence area yielded from 0.126 to 0.694 per cent zinc with anomalous values of up to 0.082 per cent nickel and up to 0.081 per cent cobalt (Assessment Report 38059).

In 2019, rock samples from the D zone area yielded up to 0.522 per cent zinc and 0.073 per cent cobalt (Assessment Report 39072).

Work History

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

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.