The RN showing is located approximately 80 kilometres northeast of Dease Lake.

The Beale Lake area, bordering the northeast side of the Lower Cretaceous Cassiar Batholith, is largely underlain by the Sylvester Allochthon, a stack of thrust sheets of oceanic to pericratonic arc affinity that overlies the para-autochthonous Cassiar terrane. South of Beale Lake, large parts of the Mississippian to Permian Upper Dorsey assemblage are dominated by green and grey phyllite and quartzite (Precambrian-Devonian Rapid River tectonite).

Mineralization consists of a quartz vein, varying from 20 to 100 centimetres in width, carrying argentiferous galena, minor pyrite and sphalerite. The west-northwest–striking vein is hosted in a brecciated hornblende granodiorite of the early Permian Nizi pluton of the Sylvester Allochthon (Slide Mountain terrane; Geological Survey of Canada Open File 2779). The best sample taken yielded 0.10 gram per tonne gold, 110 grams per tonne silver, 0.31 per cent copper, 8.36 per cent lead and 3.09 per cent zinc over 20 centimetres (Assessment Report 22946). This vein may relate to the Nizi system, to the Beale Lake veins, or to the porphyry-style occurrences near the headwaters of Nizi Creek (Fieldwork 2001, page 55).

An area of chalcopyrite-rich float boulders was located approximately 400 metres upslope to the south. Samples yielded 27 grams per tonne silver and 2.79 per cent copper (Assessment Report 22946).

Work History

The Gunsight showing was discovered during preliminary exploration in 1992, on claims adjoining the Nizi property to the south. The RN claims were owned by Golden Marlin Resources in 1992. Toklat Resources operated the property in that year, conducting geological mapping and taking 44 rock and 65 silt samples.

During 2003 through 2006, the area was help by Sutcliffe Resources Ltd. as apart of the Beale Lake property. See the Keel (MINFILE 104I 098) occurrence for a complete summary of this work.