The Sail (Ice) showing 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 Ice showing comprises gossans with associated sulphide mineralization that occur along a specific stratigraphic unit, the contact between chlorite gneiss and a siliceous metasediment. The stratigraphic sequence is overturned. The mineralized horizon extends for 210 metres along strike, and likely extends a further 75 metres across an inaccessible cliff face. Selected rock samples from the mineralized area contain up to 30 per cent combined pyrrhotite, pyrite and chalcopyrite within an intensely chlorite altered mafic to intermediate volcanic metatuff. Pyrrhotite is the most abundant sulphide with lesser amounts of pyrite and chalcopyrite. Select samples (BE2054-BE2056) were collected from the best mineralized float from talus below the showing. These rocks yielded up to 0.86 per cent copper, 0.08 per cent zinc and up to 3 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 25932).
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 (104I 134), Vader/South Vader (104I 135), Ice and Storm (104I 137)).
In 2013, Kaminak Gold Corporation conducted exploration on their Sail property which covers the Slot (104I 134), Vader/South Vader 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.
