The Nick occurrence, located 2.5 kilometres northeast of Mount Selwyn and 83 kilometres north of the town of MacKenzie, is hosted in Paleozoic Ancestral North American platformal carbonates.

Silurian Nonda Formation, Silurian to Devonian Muncho-McConnell Formation and Lower and Middle Devonian Stone Formation and Dunedin Formation carbonates and minor clastics, overlain by Devonian and Lower Carboniferous Besa River Formation shale, comprise a Paleozoic platformal sequence near the western facies change to basinal shale. This southwest dipping package is folded, faulted and divided by a prominent thrust fault which brought Ordovician and Silurian sediments from the west over Nonda Formation and younger sediments to the east.

Less than 2 per cent disseminated galena and sphalerite are hosted in Stone Formation dolomite which is locally recrystallized to white sparry dolomite. The occurrence is comprised of dolomite talus but the abundance and distribution of the sulphides indicates a local provenance in a gully 150 metres below the ridge top and 100 metres stratigraphically below the Dunedin Formation contact. Work has been very limited on this showing.

Work History

In 1975, Aquitaine Co. of Canada Ltd. completed a program of prospecting, geological mapping, geochemical (rock and soil) sampling and an induced polarization survey on the area as the Jet claims. The following year, Aquitane Co. completed a program of geological mapping and 22 short diamond drillholes, totalling 595.0 metres, on the claims.