The Klovance property is located on McKay Creek, a tributary of Erie Creek, 11.1 kilometres west of Salmo. A historic prospect shaft on the property, likely dating back to the early 1900's, is the first known work on the property. A Salmo prospector, Joe Klovance, discovered mineralization on the claims in the 1970’s during the course of logging road construction. Mr. Klovance carried out extensive bulldozer stripping in the area, to expose at least five areas of mineralization. In 2010, Swift Resources Inc. performed a programme of bulldozer stripping and rock sampling over the exposures. Trenching and a drill programme, consisting of 11 holes and covering 2,068 metres, was performed during 2011 on mineralized zones.
Regionally, the property covers a portion of the Bonnington pluton, part of the Nelson Plutonic Suite, as well as older sediments and volcanics that occur adjacent to, and as embayments or pendants within the intrusion. Widespread hornfelsing occurs in the older rocks adjacent to the intrusion, with zones of skarn alteration and mineralization developed in more calcareous rock types. Northwest-trending, east-side- down, Eocene-aged normal faults, such as the Erie Creek fault, are an important structural feature in the area.
Four areas of known mineralization, the Upper, Middle, Lower, and Roadside, occur over a 400 by 120 metre area of the property. Mineralization occurs in a moderate west-dipping structure, hosted within a sequence of argillite and volcanics. It ranges in true width from less than one metre to more than four metres. Narrow veins and veinlets of massive to semi-massive sulphide mineralization occur within the shear zone.
A historic, 20 metre, shaft at the Upper showing has exposed massive fine grained pyrrhotite with fine chalcopyrite veinlets and coarser grained galena with sphalerite and minor pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite. Rock sample results from the Upper Showing returned up to 7.16 per cent lead, 7.4 per cent zinc and 733 grams per tonne silver (sample SS-04;) (Assessment Report 31931). In 2011, trenching returned 2.1 metres at 88 grams per tonne silver, 0.045 per cent copper, 0.83 per cent lead, and 1.24 per cent zinc (Press Release - Swift Resources Inc., September 27, 2011).
In 2010, bulldozer stripping, at the Middle showing, had exposed a zone of faulting and mineralized quartz veining. Massive sulphide boulders, consists of massive fine- grained galena and sphalerite, with minor fine grained bands or veinlets of chalcopyrite and minor patchy quartz, were also encountered in stripping debris. Rock samples in this area returned results to 34.09 per cent lead, 3.86 per cent zinc, 442 grams per tonne silver and 0.585 grams per tonne gold (sample SS-07;) (Assessment Report 31931). In 2011, trenching returned up to 292 grams per tonne silver, 0.364 per cent copper, 19.76 per cent lead, 4.77 per cent zinc and 0.447 grams per tonne gold over 0.4 metres (Press Release - Swift Resources Inc., September 27, 2011).
The Lower showing consists of a 2 to 3 metre wide zone of fault-bounded mineralization that was exposed in 2010 during bulldozer stripping. The mineralization is, primarily, brecciated and siliceous, with argillite fragments cemented by quartz and by fine grained galena, sphalerite, pyrite and minor chalcopyrite. Sample results from the Lower Showing included 15.62 per cent lead, 7.7 per cent zinc and 200 grams per tonne silver (sample SS-10;) (Assessment Report 31931). In 2011, trenching returned up to 17 grams per tonne silver, 0.076 per cent copper, 0.90 per cent lead, 7.84 per cent zinc over 0.4 metres (Press Release - Swift Resources Inc., September 27, 2011).
The Roadside showing is a 10 by 10 metre area of subcrop and outcrop with 15 to 30 per cent fine grained galena, sphalerite and pyrite in a quartz gangue. A single sample collected from this area, in 2010, returned 10.44 per cent lead, 6.76 per cent zinc and 97 grams per tonne silver (sample SS-11;) (Assessment Report 31931).
