The Dictator occurrence is located at approximately 950 metres elevation on an east-facing slope, approximately 200 metres west of the north end of Loon Lake.

Regionally, the area is underlain by hornblende schists, limestone and banded quartzite of the Upper Mississippian to Permian Milford Formation and basaltic volcanic rocks of the Carboniferous to Permian Kaslo Group. Granodioritic intrusive rocks of the Middle Jurassic Nelson Batholith are exposed to the west.

The occurrence area is underlain by limestone and quartzite of the Mississippian to Permian Milford Formation. A narrow quartz-calcite-galena-sphalerite vein strikes 130 degrees with vertical dip. Fine-grained disseminated sphalerite also occurs in the adjacent limestone. A 1980 drillhole, located near the vein, encountered a 0.9-metre wide quartz-calcite vein hosting a small amount of sphalerite.

In 1989, a sample (E49701) of vein material assayed 32.3 per cent zinc and 2260 grams per tonne silver, and a dump sample (E49703) yielded 0.77 per cent lead, 3.07 per cent zinc and 129 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 19130).

Work History

In 1895, approximately 46 metres of tunnelling and shaft driving occurred on the Dictator claim.

In 1979, David Minerals Ltd. conducted a program of geochemical (stream and silt) sampling on the area as the Peanut Butter claims of the Ainsworth property. The following year, 29 diamond drill holes, totalling 1772.4 metres, were completed on the Black Chief, Earl, Blackbird, Dictator, Glengarry, United and Last Chance claims.

In 1989, South Kootenay Goldfields Inc., on behalf of Dragoon Resources Ltd., conducted a program of prospecting, geological mapping, rock sampling and a 3.5 line-kilometre ground electromagnetic survey on the area as the Peanut Butter property.

In 2012, David Wallach prospected and rock sampled the area as the Ainsworth property.