The Pie 9 (South) occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 1300 metres in the northeastern headwaters of Del Creek, east of the Paul River and approximately 36 kilometres south of Chesterfield Lake.

Regionally, the area is underlain by four main northwest-trending zones of sediments. The westernmost belt comprises a package of Ordovician and Silurian siltstone interbedded with recessive, steel grey to black weathered upper Devonian to Mississippian shale and siltstone of the Gunsteel Formation, part of the Earn Group. The adjacent belt immediately to the east consists of brown to orange weathered Silurian siltstone. The next belt adjacent to the east consists of further recessive, steel grey to black weathered shale and siltstone of the Gunsteel Formation. The most eastern belt of rocks consists of grey weathered, fossiliferous limestone of the lower to middle Devonian Kwadacha Formation.

Locally, Gunsteel Formation shales contain beds of nodular barite and pyrite with minor amounts of associated galena and sphalerite. Another zone of mineralization, comprising disseminated chalcopyrite and quartz, is reported near a mountain top, approximately 1.8 kilometres to the north.

In 2006, drillhole P-06-7 reported values of up to 15.1 grams per tonne silver, 0.805 per cent zinc and 0.086 per cent lead (Assessment Report 28976, page 30). Also at this time, drill hole P-06-12 yielded intercepts of 0.539 per cent zinc, 0.113 per cent lead, and 24 grams per tonne silver over 0.55 metre and 0.529 per cent zinc, 0.129 per cent lead, and 3.2 grams per tonne silver over 2.00 metres, while drill hole P-06-11 yielded 0.300 per cent zinc over 6.7 metres (Strate, T. (2012-04-05): NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Pie Property).

Work History

The area has been explored in conjunction with the nearby Pie (MINFILE 094F 023) occurrence and a complete regional exploration history can be found there.