The Erickson (Germ) occurrence is located approximately 2.5 kilometres south of Germansen Lake and 22 kilometres west of Manson Creek.

This occurrence is hosted within argillites belonging to the Middle to Upper Triassic Slate Creek Formation of the Middle Triassic to Lower Jurassic Takla Group. These argillites are intruded by the Cretaceous Germansen Batholith approximately 120 metres to the south. The argillites are sheared and intensely hornfelsed near the granodiorite. Near the occurrence, aplite dikes up to 10 metres in width also intrude the argillites.

The showing consists of two lenticular quartz veins, 20 and 40 centimetres wide, within the sheared basal argillites. The veins are mineralized with pyrite and chalcopyrite and contain anomalous amounts of gold and silver.

Work History

In 1984, Regional Resources Ltd. completed a geochemical sampling program consisting of silt, soil, rock, and heavy mineral stream concentrate samples. The survey located strongly anomalous zinc and moderately high copper and silver values. The author concluded that geochemical anomalies within the Germ property area appear to be caused by narrow mineralized veinlets in the altered contact zone of the batholith.