The Sail (Vader) showing is located approximately 10 kilometres east-southeast of the northern end of Cry Lake, and about 65 kilometres east of the Stewart-Cassiar Highway (37). The nearest community is Dease Lake, located 80 kilometres southwest of the property.
The area is primarily underlain by strongly metamorphosed and deformed metasedimentary (quartz-biotite gneiss) and metavolcanic rocks (chlorite-feldspar gneiss) with minor interlayered felsic volcanic units, of the Precambrian to Devonian Rapid River Tectonite. These are intruded and/or tectonically interleaved with Devonian to Permian ultramafic bodies and intruded by granitic stocks and dikes of the Eocene Major Hart pluton.
The Vader showing is hosted in sheared mafic rock along a fault zone 1.5 metres wide striking 040 degrees and dipping 75 degrees northwest. The rocks within the fault zone are stained by manganese oxides and by red-orange limonite. Disseminated pyrite, galena and lesser chalcopyrite occur within a quartz vein, 1.5 metres wide, emplaced along the fault zone over a strike length of 7 metres. The sulphides comprise 5 to 7 per cent of the quartz vein. Grab samples BE2032-BE2034 yielded up to 1.12 per cent lead, 49.6 grams per tonne silver, 0.17 per cent copper and up to 0.97 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 25932). Another quartz vein is emplaced along the same fault structure 100 metres along strike to the southwest. The vein here is 2 metres wide, with euhedral quartz crystals lining open cavities and rimming angular breccia fragments. The quartz vein is stained by manganese oxides. The vein contains up to 10 per cent limonite and traces of disseminated galena. Chip samples BE2029-BE2031 yielded up to 6.13 per cent lead, 13.4 grams per tonne silver, 438 parts per million copper and up to 730 parts per million zinc across 2 metres (Assessment Report 25932).
The South Vader showing is located 400 metres south of the Vader. A quartz-iron carbonate vein, 3 metres wide, is emplaced along a fault striking approximately 020 degrees and dipping 70 degrees northwest. The vein contains angular fragments of chlorite gneiss wallrock up to 4 centimetres across, and fewer euhedral quartz crystals lining open spaces than at the Vader showing. The quartz vein has been moderately stained by manganese oxides and by 5 to 10 per cent limonite. The vein contains rare disseminated pyrite, galena and lesser chalcopyrite across a width of 1 metre. Grab samples BE2035-BE2037 and BE3021 yielded up to 0.26 per cent lead, 5 grams per tonne silver, 143 parts per million copper and up to 976 parts per million zinc (Assessment Report 25932).
In 1996, the Sail claims were staked by Westmin Resources Ltd. to follow-up on base metal anomalies generated during silt sampling surveys by Western Mines Limited (Westmin Resources Limited’s precursor company) in 1979 and the British Columbia Geological Survey in 1995. A number of rock and soil samples containing anomalous concentrations of gold and base metals were identified during 1996 exploration. In 1997, fieldwork comprised grid geochemical soil sampling on contour soil anomalies delineated during 1996. Mineralized float boulders containing massive sulphides were discovered; these boulders contain up to 15 per cent chalcopyrite and 65 to 80 per cent pyrrhotite within a silica-chlorite gangue. The bedrock source of the boulders was not determined in 1997 due to extremely steep topography in the apparent source area. In 1998, additional claim staking, grid geochemical soil sampling, geological mapping and rock sampling were completed to determine the source of the mineralized massive sulphide boulders and lead- and zinc-in-soil anomalies. Several mineralized showings were discovered as a result of this program (Beale (104I 133), Slot (104I 134), Vader/South Vader, Ice (104I 136) and Storm (104I 137)).
In 2013, Kaminak Gold Corporation conducted exploration on their Sail property which covers the Slot (104I 134), Vader/South Vader and Beale (104I 133) showings. The work consisted of a very minor amount of geochemical sampling on the Sail (Beale) showing to attempt to confirm showing samples. The property visit was conducted late in the year and snow cover limited the ability to properly identify a number of the showings mineralized rocks.
