The Silver Pick veins are situated 16 kilometres northeast of Hazelton, on the east side of Nine Mile Mountain.
The property is underlain by sandstone, shale, tuff and argillite of the Middle Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous Bowser Lake Group. A 3-by-1–kilometre stock of coarse-grained granodiorite of the Late Cretaceous Bulkley Intrusions outcrops on part of the property.
Several narrow fissure veins, ranging up to 50 centimetres in width, outcrop on the property. Most have a quartz gangue, with varying amounts of galena, sphalerite, stibnite and jamesonite. A sample taken by Kindle from a vein exposed in a 15-metre-deep inclined shaft assayed 5.07 per cent lead across 25 centimetres (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 223, page 20).
The first discovery of silver-lead-zinc ore containing antimony was made on Nine Mile Mountain in 1908. In the years that followed, numerous other mineral-bearing veins were discovered in the area. Between 1910 and 1913, small shipments of high-grade silver-lead ore were made from 15 properties.
In 1909, completed work on the Silver Pick showing included one open cut, stripping and a crosscut lead. As of 1914, the Silver Pick group consisted of the Silver Pick, Silver Leaf and Silver Trust claims, owned by W. Fred Brewer. A 6-metre tunnel had been excavated on the Silver Trust claim.
In 1967, the Lead King property to the west was being explored by Sunrise Silver Mines Limited. Exploration work consisted of four trenches totalling 165 metres.
By 1981, the area was held by Sunrise Metals Corporation. As part of a joint venture agreement with Sunrise Metals, Westmin Resources Limited began work on the Sunrise property. That year, exploration consisted of geological mapping, rock sampling, soil geochemical surveying and trenching. Exploration continued in 1982 with an induced polarization and resistivity geophysical survey over the central portion of the property.
As of 1950, 23.6 tonnes of gold-silver-lead-zinc ore had been shipped from the Silver Pick property (Ministry of Mines Annual Report, 1950, page 83).
