The Persuader showing is located on the westerly slopes of Mount Brown, about 19 kilometres south of Stewart. The showing was discovered approximately 600 metres north of the Tis showing, upslope and west of the valley glacier on the west side of Mount Brown.
The Persuader showing consists of a north-striking stockwork and silicified zone cropping out over an area measuring 5-10 metres wide and 20 metres long. The entire showing is surrounded by overburden, and its extent may be considerably greater than its surface expression. The showing contains semi-massive sulphide pods or lenses dominated by sphalerite with subordinate disseminated chalcopyrite, pyrite and pyrrhotite, hosted within a zone of quartz stringer and stockwork veins in silicified volcaniclastic rocks of the Lower-Middle Jurassic Hazelton Group. Grab samples from the showing produced consistently high values of gold, silver, copper and zinc. Sample 474853 analysed 7.22 grams per tonne gold, 52.7 grams per tonne silver, 0.96 per cent copper and 6.67 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 28961).
During a 2006 exploration program conducted on the Praxis Project on behalf of Mineral Hill Industries Ltd., prospecting in the area of the Tis showing resulted in the discovery of the Persuader showing, located 600 metres north of the Tis.
Granby Gold Inc. conducted geological mapping, airborne magnetometer and gamma ray spectrometry surveys (and geological interpretation of the same) over their East Georgie River project area, including the Persuader showing, from 2013 to 2020. Bedding of the andesite and the banded argillite within the volcanics in the northern portion of the traverse is generally northwesterly with dips to the southwest. Intermediate to mafic volcanics and sediments are intruded by numerous granitic dykes. A zone of calcite breccia with minor iron oxide was observed. Calcite forms the matrix of a brecciated fault 1.0 metre wide, trending 318°/90°. Broad iron-stained outcrops in a general northwest trend are clearly visible. Alteration assemblages of hornfels and skarn are noticeable within the andesite and argillite. Epidote, garnet, calcite and/or chlorite, and pyrite are common. Frequency of skarn occurrences appears to increase in an easterly direction in a rim along the edge of the ice lobe. Circular magnetic high patterns to the east and southeast of the Persuader showing, suggest that an intrusive may be concealed below the glacier. A magnetic low lineament trends southeast from the Persuader showing and appears to mark a division of a single magnetic high or a contact between separate highs. A broad arc of elevated magnetic intensity is noticeable north, west, and south of the Persuader showing, tending to form a ring exterior to the circular magnetic highs. Four areas of interest were identified by the fractal analysis ‘heatmaps’ in 2018, suggesting anomalous structural complexity / disturbance. Particular attention is focused about Rhyolite Ridge, extending southeast from the Persuader mineralization and flanking the Ashwood on the eastern block of the overall property.
