The Stikine showing is located on the eastern bank of the Stikine River, approximately 45 kilometres southwest of the community of Telegraph Creek.

Skarn mineralization occurs in pre-Permian limestone and other sediments near the contact with a stock of Middle Jurassic hornblende granodiorite. All the rocks, including the intrusive mass, have been intensely folded and much shattered by faults. The limestone is silicified and mineralized within a 30 metre zone along the line of igneous contact. Quartz, garnet, epidote, wollastonite and other minerals are developed.

The deposits consist of lenses with three different types of mineralization. The first is found at the contact and consists of massive magnetite and pyrrhotite with lesser copper and lead minerals along with a little quartz, garnet and other silicates. These masses are generally small with the largest being 15 metres long and less than a metre thick. Samples contained up to 0.09 per cent copper and 2.4 grams per tonne silver.

The second type is farther away from the contact and consists of galena and sphalerite with large amounts of quartz, garnet and other minerals in which the sulphides are scattered. The largest of these lenses is 3 metres wide. Samples contained up to 0.69 grams per tonne gold, 20.57 grams per tonne silver, and 4 per cent zinc across 3.7 metres.

The third type, found in silicified limestone, is a single mass of chalcopyrite less than a metre across. Scheelite associated with galena was also reported at this locality. Assays range from 1 to 7 per cent tungsten across narrow widths.

The area was initially staked by Dixon and Bodd in 1914, and optioned to the Stikine Mining Company in 1915. Between 1915 and 1922, Stikine performed considerable work which involved trail building, prospecting, trenching, and excavating. Three exploratory adits were driven to test the continuity of lead/zinc bearing quartz veins. Stikine relinquished their rights to the property in the early 1930’s, and it was subsequently acquired by Peter Hamlin in 1942. Mr. Hamlin recognized scheelite on the property and optioned it to the Tungsten of British Columbia Company in 1952. In 1981, Chutine Resources Ltd. acquired the property and conducted several limited exploration programs consisting of trenching and mapping. In 1991, Skeena Resources completed a program of geological mapping, prospecting and geochemical sampling on their Rapid 1-4 claims.