The Vip 29 occurrence is located about 9 kilometres north of the north end of Thutade Lake approximately 203 kilometres north-northwest of the community of Germansen Landing.

The showing is situated within a Mesozoic volcanic arc assemblage bounded to the east by the Omineca Belt and to the west and southwest by the Sustut and Bowser basins. Permian Asitka Group crystalline limestones are the oldest rocks exposed in the region. They are commonly in thrust contact with Upper Triassic Stuhini Group andesite flows and pyroclastic rocks. Stuhini volcanics have been intruded by the granodiorite to quartz monzonite Black Lake Suite of Early Jurassic age and are in turn unconformably overlain by or faulted against Lower Jurassic calcalkaline volcanics of the Toodoggone Formation (Hazelton Group).

The dominant structures in the area are steeply dipping faults which define a prominent regional northwest structural fabric trending 140 to 170 degrees. In turn, high angle northeast-striking faults (approximately 060 degrees) appear to truncate and displace northwest-striking faults. Collectively these faults form a boundary for variably rotated and tilted blocks underlain by monoclinal strata.

The showing is underlain predominantly by granodiorite of the Early Jurassic Black Lake stock with several roof pendants of grey micaceous metasiltstone and white, coarsely crystalline marble of the Asitka and/or Stuhini groups. Late porphyritic monzonite dikes striking northwesterly, intrude both granodiorite and metasedimentary rocks.

The Vip 29 showing consists of a shear vein hosted in granodiorite of the Black Lake stock. The quartz vein is traceable up to 30 metres and strikes south-southeast, averaging 7.62 metres width. At the southeast end of the exposed outcrop, malachite occurs over 6.10 to 7.62 metres width. The most intense chalcopyrite-magnetite mineralization is restricted to a 0.61 to 1.22-metre section in the centre of the zone. Sericite-chlorite alteration accompany mineralization.

Several samples were taken from this zone. Sample 52033, consisting of a grab sample of the best-looking material, assayed 92.92 grams per tonne silver and 0.59 per cent copper. A second sample (H225) consisted of a 4.57-metre chip across the vein; analytical results were 4.8 grams per tonne silver, 0.12 per cent copper and 0.034 gram per tonne gold (Property File - Hodgson and LeBel, (1974)).

Sampling, mapping and various ground geophysical surveys were conducted in the area in the 1990s and 2000s. In 2002, a 14-metre trench (Trench 4) was excavated on the South zone by Stealth Minerals. The 14 metre length is reported to have assayed 0.28 per cent copper, 8.51 grams per tonne silver and 0.01 gram per tonne gold (Figure 6, Table 3, Assessment Report 27160). A 2778-line kilometre airborne magnetic survey was completed over most of the claim group including the Vip/Grace area (Assessment Report 3564). Drilling was completed on other Vip showings in the area.

Kennco Exploration (Western) Ltd. performed porphyry copper exploration in the Toodoggone between 1968 and 1973. The Vip skarn prospects were also identified during this period. Amax Exploration Inc. staked the Vip claims in 1973. Geophysical and geochemical surveys and geological mapping were conducted in 1974 (Assessment Report 5144). The Vip claims lapsed in 1975 and were re-staked as the Grace claims and in 1979. The Vip prospect was further explored and was reported to have been diamond drilled in 1984. During 1986, the Vip-Grace prospect was flown by a low-level airborne magnetic and VLF survey. Work in this area was followed up in 1987 with detailed soil sampling and magnetic and VLF surveys. The Vip and Grace claim area covered the ground where Vip and Grace showings are documented (094E 047, 48, 49 and 129).

Stealth Minerals Limited (formerly Stealth Mining Corp.) optioned a large package of claims in the region during the summer of 1997 and additional claims were staked, covering the Goat, Wrich, Vip, Electrum, and Nub Mountain prospects. Most of Stealth’s subsequent work was initially directed towards the Pine deposit (094E 016) and later to a variety of other showings on the Pine property.

Reconnaissance prospecting, mapping and rock sampling on various showings including the Vip and Electrum were done in 1999. During 2000, Stealth further evaluated the potential of several prospects including the Vip with geological mapping, detailed prospecting and rock sampling.

In 2002, prospecting at the Vip prospect and nearby 343-Creek (southwest of Vip) produced a total of 58 grab, float, and continuous chip rock samples. Machine trenching was also carried out on the Wrich and Vip prospects. Ground induced polarization and resistivity surveys ware performed on the Mex, Vip and Wrich prospects. Magnetometer surveys were performed at the Mex and the Vip prospects. Discussion of results by Stealth indicates at least four skarn zones (Assessment Report 27160).

In 2003, drilling of 10 diamond-drill holes was completed by Stealth Minerals on the Vip prospect. Trenching was performed on the Vip East, North and West prospects to follow up on 2002 results. Drilling on the Vip target indicated that mineralization exposed in trenches may be complicated by lithological facies change, stratigraphic and structural control that affect the distribution of potentially economic grade and width of mineralization. Zones of significant mineralization identified in 2002 may have a strong structural control in proximity with a feldspar porphyry dike and trend northwest, subparallel to drilling and remains open in this direction. Diamond drilling at the Vip prospect targeted skarn zones approximately 50-75 metres below trenches yielding significant values in 2002, but drill testing resulted in generally low concentrations of base and precious metals. One intercept of 0.5 metre assayed 1.44 grams per tonne gold, 19.6 grams per tonne silver, 1.26 per cent copper from garnet-diopside-magnetite skarn altered marble and metasediment of the Asitka Group (Assessment Report 27429; Exploration in British Columbia 2003). The source and extent of induced polarization anomalies and copper showings in trenches to the northwest and southwest of the Vip grid remain unknown. Drilling appears to be closest to the previous occurrences of Grace 1 (094E 129) and Vip 7 (094E 047).

In 2009, program activities by Goldfields/Cascadero included a 2778-line kilometre airborne magnetic survey over most of the claim group including the Vip/Grace area (Assessment Report 3564). Also, a prospect-specific field mapping and sampling program (soil, rock, talus fines and stream sediment samples) completed over several prospects including those in the Vip area. Old trenches and ground-truthing aeromagnetic anomalies was completed. Samples were taken in the Vip 30 (094E 048) and Vip 7 (094E 047) areas.

Refer to the Pine (094E 016) for details of the Pine property which contained the Vip/Grace occurrences from the late 1990s to present (ca. 2014). Also see the Electrum (094E 125) for details of historic property ownership and related occurrences. Also see Grace 1 (094E 129) for further details on the Vip skarn deposits.