The Slippery Ian showing is located about 1.8 kilometres east of the central part of the east shore of Long Lake, 22 kilometres north of Stewart.
The area is underlain by Hazelton Group rocks that lie in the core region of north-northwest trending, north plunging folds. These rocks comprise lowermost predominantly sedimentary rocks of the Lower Jurassic Betty Creek Formation overlain by felsic volcanics of the Lower to Middle Jurassic Mount Dilworth Formation and uppermost sediments of the Middle-Upper Jurassic Salmon River Formation (Open File 1987-22).
The showing is hosted in north striking, west dipping intercalated volcaniclastics, conglomerate and sandstone of the Betty Creek Formation. These rocks are intruded by north trending felsic dikes (Assessment Report 21457). A north trending, 0.2 to 0.8 metre wide quartz-breccia vein dips 80 degrees west and lies along the eastern contact of a felsic dike. It can be traced for about 35 metres along strike.
The vein contains pyrite, galena, sphalerite and minor chalcopyrite and tetrahedrite(?). In 1990, the average assay from 12 samples taken of the vein was 8.5 per cent zinc, 6.6 per cent lead, 0.5 per cent copper, 0.9 gram per tonne gold, 57.9 grams per tonne silver, 0.3 per cent tungsten and 0.2 per cent cadmium across 0.6 metre width (Assessment Report 21457). The best sample assayed 38.6 per cent zinc, 6.58 per cent lead, 0.56 per cent copper, 3.14 grams per tonne gold, 69.8 grams per tonne silver and 0.5 per cent tungsten across 0.80 metre (Assessment Report 21457).
Work History
The showing is part of the southern extension of the mineralized vein zone at the Silver Crown showing (104A 061). The Silver Crown showing was staked in 1965 and explored during 1965-68. In 1983, Teuton Resources performed work on the Elk and Moose claims in the area. In 1988, an airborne geophysical survey was flown over the area on behalf of D. Cremonese. The following year White Channel Resources Inc. acquired the Strike 1-3 claims over the area and explored the Silver Crown showing. In 1990, another airborne geophysical survey was flown over the area on behalf of D. Cremonese. That year Navarre Resources Corporation did some work on the Strike claims. This work included geological mapping, trenching, sampling, drilling, geochemical (soil and stream sediment) and geophysical (pulse-EM) surveys. The showing was trenched at this time. One hole (35 metres) was drilled on the showing; mechanical problems prevented the hole from reaching the target.
In 2017, Richard Billingsley completed an airborne magnetic survey on the area. In 2019, AUX Resources Corp. completed a program of prospecting, geological mapping and rock sampling on the area as the Independence and Slippery Ian properties. Seventeen samples were collected from the Slippery Ian occurrence and yielded values of up to 0.62 gram per tonne gold, 116 grams per tonne silver, 0.66 per cent copper, 13.2 per cent lead and 16.8 per cent zinc (Bravewolf Consulting [2020-07-17]: 2020 Technical (NI 43-101) Report on the Independence and Slippery Ian Properties).
