The Pelly 1 occurrence is located in the upper reaches of a west-northwest–facing creek valley, south of the Akie River and approximately 36 kilometres northeast of the rivers’ confluence with the Finlay 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, the style and type of mineralization is not described but is likely related to other nearby stratiform lead-zinc-barite occurrences hosted in the Gunsteel Formation (lower Earn Group) such as the Elf (MINFILE 094F 011) or Gnome (MINFILE 094F 016) occurrences.

In 1980, two rock samples yielded 1.710 and 0.999 per cent zinc with 0.156 and 0.756 per cent barium, respectively (Assessment Report 8451). The samples were not described, and it is not known if they came from outcrop or talus.

Work History

In 1980, Cominco Ltd. completed a program of geological mapping and geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling on the area as the Pelly claims.