The Sail (Slot) occurrence is located approximately 10 kilometres east-southeast of the northern end of Cry Lake and about 65 kilometres east of the Stewart-Cassiar Highway (37). The nearest community is Dease Lake, located 80 kilometres southwest of the property.
The area is primarily underlain by strongly metamorphosed and deformed metasedimentary (quartz-biotite gneiss) and metavolcanic rocks (chlorite-feldspar gneiss) with minor interlayered felsic volcanic units, of the Precambrian to Devonian Rapid River Tectonite. These are intruded and/or tectonically interleaved with Devonian to Permian ultramafic bodies and intruded by granitic stocks and dikes of the Eocene Major Hart pluton.
The Slot showing is located about 500 metres north of the Beale showing (104I 133) and occurs in a dilation zone or warp along a large, subvertical fault trending 022 degrees. This 'Slot fault' forms a steep-sided gully or slot 5 to 10 metres wide and approximately 40 metres deep. A lens or pod of massive pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite occurs along the Slot fault, within silicified and chlorite altered intermediate metavolcanic(?) hostrock. Continuous chip samples BER1011, BER1012 and BER1013 contain a weighted average of 1.14 per cent copper, 36.0 grams per tonne silver, 295 parts per million lead and 540 parts per million zinc across 2.12 metres at the showing (Assessment Report 25932). The rocks within this interval contain up to 40 per cent pyrrhotite and 20 per cent chalcopyrite across 40 centimetres. The sulphides are predominantly massive, and largely confined to within 100 centimetres of the fault. The chlorite gneiss wallrocks outside of the mineralized zone appear unmineralized and unaltered.
In 1996, the Sail claims were staked by Westmin Resources Ltd. to follow-up on base metal anomalies generated during silt sampling surveys by Western Mines Limited (Westmin Resources Limited’s precursor company) in 1979 and the British Columbia Geological Survey in 1995. A number of rock and soil samples containing anomalous concentrations of gold and base metals were identified during 1996 exploration. In 1997, fieldwork comprised grid geochemical soil sampling on contour soil anomalies delineated during 1996. Mineralized float boulders containing massive sulphides were discovered; these boulders contain up to 15 per cent chalcopyrite and 65 to 80 per cent pyrrhotite within a silica-chlorite gangue. The bedrock source of the boulders was not determined in 1997 due to extremely steep topography in the apparent source area. In 1998, additional claim staking, grid geochemical soil sampling, geological mapping and rock sampling were completed to determine the source of the mineralized massive sulphide boulders and lead- and zinc-in-soil anomalies. Several mineralized showings were discovered as a result of this program (Beale (104I 133), Slot, Vader (104I 135), South Vader (104I 135), Ice (104I 136), and Storm (104I 137)).
In 2013, Kaminak Gold Corporation conducted exploration on their Sail property which covers the Slot (104I 134), Vader/South Vader (104I 135) and Beale (104I 133) showings. The work consisted of a very minor amount of geochemical sampling on the Sail (Beale) showing to attempt to confirm showing samples. The property visit was conducted late in the year and snow cover limited the ability to properly identify a number of the showings mineralized rocks.
