The Elf 19 occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 1500 metres on a north-northwest–facing slope in the southern headwaters of McIssac Creek and approximately 4 kilometres south of the creeks’ mouth on the Akie River.

Regionally, the area is underlain by a northwest-trending belt of Mississippian to Devonian Earn Group shales unconformably overlying Ordovician to Devonian Road River Group rocks and Cambrian to Ordovician Kechika Group limestone.

Locally, a quartz-carbonate veined to stockworked zone with sphalerite, pyrite and fuchsite is hosted by metasedimentary rocks occurring along the thrust contact between shales of the Upper Devonian Gunsteel Formation and siltstone and limestone of Silurian age.

In 1995, a nearby float boulder sample (7310) of similar mineralization assayed 0.19 per cent lead, 12.00 per cent zinc and 2.8 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 24063).

Work History

In 1995 and 1997, Teck Exploration Ltd. completed programs of prospecting, geological mapping, geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling and minor trenching on the area as the Elf claims.

In 2009 and 2013, Teck Resources Ltd. completed further programs of geological mapping and soil sampling on the Elf claims. In 2015, Cirque Operating Corp. completed a 228.0 line-kilometre airborne magnetic and electromagnetic (VTEM) surveys on the Elf claims.