The Nipper showing is located at about 1219 metres on the western slopes of Cranberry Ridge, 4.75 kilometres northwest of Beaverdell, British Columbia.
The Nipper claim group was discovered and worked between 1916 and 1928. The Nipper showing was once staked as the Nipper claim group consisting of the Nipper, Jubilee, Silver Cable and Radio claims. The claims were owned and operated between 1916 and 1925 by J. Dale and associates. In 1928, the claims were bonded to W.E. Johnston and R.C. Draggo. Development on the Nipper claim consisted of three crosscuts. On other claims, development consisted of opencuts, tunnels and shallow shafts which intersected oxidized and displaced sections of quartz vein mineralized with galena, pyrite and sphalerite.
Hostrocks of the Nipper showing are granodiorite and quartz diorite of the Jurassic Westkettle batholith and schist of the Permian Wallace Formation.
Most of the work was done on the Nipper claim, on the account of high grade silver-lead float discovered in gravel overburden. Various opencuts, tunnels and shallow shafts intersected a shear-hosted quartz vein striking 045 degrees. The shear zone is about 61 centimetres wide. The vein averages 15 centimetres wide and is mineralized with pyrite, galena and sphalerite with silver and gold values in a quartz gangue. The vein was explored by three crosscuts. The upper crosscut, at 1242 metres, intersected the vein at 6 metres from the portal. A sample from the upper crosscut taken in 1925 yielded 6.86 grams per gram gold, 891.43 grams per tonne silver and 32 per cent lead (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1925, page 201). The middle crosscut was driven 18 metres at 1227 metres elevation but did not intersect the vein. The lower crosscut intersected a 5-centimetre wide quartz vein mineralized with pyrite, galena and sphalerite. A sample from the lower crosscut yielded 17.14 grams per tonne gold, 102.86 grams per tonne silver, 0.5 per cent lead and 5.0 per cent zinc (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1925, page 201).
During 2007 through 2009, Intigold Gold Mines Ltd. completed programs of rock and soil sampling and am airborne geophysical survey on the area as the Beaverdell property.
