The Whiskey Creek showing is located on the south bank of the Skeena River, 4.5 kilometres northeast of Cedarvale.

The area is underlain by sediments of the Middle Jurassic to Upper Cretaceous Bowser Lake Group which are intruded by Tertiary (and possibly younger) granitic Coast Plutonic Complex rocks.

The showing is hosted in variably calcareous siltstone intruded by several northeast trending rhyolite dikes. Mineralization occurs in quartz veins, in stockworks and as massive, bedded sulphides in siltstone. The hostrocks have been carbonatized and sericitized in an alteration envelope up to 1.0 metre in width. Pyrrhotite and minor chalcopyrite occur in seams up to 0.10 metre thick in siliceous siltstone. Quartz stockworks, consisting of 1 to 2 millimetre wide quartz-filled fractures, host fine-grained pyrite, plus or minus chalcopyrite and arsenopyrite. Quartz veins contain near massive lenses of mixed sulphides comprising pyrite, arsenopyrite, sphalerite, pyrrhotite, galena, tetrahedrite and chalcopyrite (in order of abundance). The lenses occur as partially segregated bands parallel to vein walls. Sulphide content can be up to 40 per cent in the veins. The veins are 0.15 metre wide, strike north and dip 20 degrees east.

A sample taken from a vein over 0.15 metre assayed 7.8 grams per tonne gold, 150.5 grams per tonne silver, 0.20 per cent copper, 1.38 per cent lead and 0.66 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 12794, Figure 4).

In 1983, T.C. Scott conducted prospecting, geologic mapping and sampling of vein exposures

and mineralized rock. Although the showings were first discovered prior to 1937, they have since seen little development. Several mining claims were held on Whiskey Creek by A. Gray of Cedarvale. Six or seven short adits were driven in the banks of the creek, but nothing of importance was found. At 183 metres elevation, about 30 metres east of the highway bridge across Whiskey Creek, a 3.6-metre adit was driven along a small sulphide vein that occurs along a fault slip in fine grained, sericitic quartzite. The vein

averaged 15 centimetres in width and is heavily mineralized with pyrite and arsenopyrite, with a little galena and sphalerite. It strikes north at a small angle across the creek and dips 20 degrees east. About a hundred metres farther up the creek the sediments are intruded by small stocks of quartz diorite. Several small veins in or near these intrusions were prospected by short adits. At 335 metres elevation, on the north bank of the creek, a 17-metre adit was driven into one of the dikes of quartz diorite without striking any sulphides.