The Jack Pot occurrence is located on a high bluff at an elevation of approximately 820 metres and approximately 650 metres southwest of Ainsworth.

Regionally, the area is underlain by hornblende schists, limestone and banded quartzite of the Upper Mississippian to Permian Milford Formation and basaltic volcanic rocks of the Carboniferous to Permian Kaslo Group. Granodioritic intrusive rocks of the Middle Jurassic Nelson Batholith are exposed to the west.

The occurrence area is underlain by micaceous quartzite, mica schist and limestone of the Mississippian to Permian Milford Formation.

The occurrence is located on the Highlander (MINFILE 082FNE030) vein which outcrops over a distance of approximately 1.6 kilometres from near Loon Lake to the south and Munn Creek to the north. The fault zone in which it occurs continues even further. The vein curves from a strike of almost due north near Loon Lake to 340 degrees in the Jack Pot claim area. Galena and sphalerite occur in a gangue of quartz and calcite.

In 1980, a roof sample (768) from the Jackpot adit yielded 1.03 per cent copper, 0.79 per cent lead, 3.42 per cent zinc and 154.3 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 9347).

Work History

In the late 1800s or early 1900s, the Jack Pot adit was driven at 250 degrees for approximately 23 metres, at which point it intersected the extension of the Highlander vein system north of the Banker (MINFILE 082FNE029) workings. The vein was drifted on for approximately 26 metres south and 7 metres north.

The property was acquired by Yale lead & Zinc Mines Ltd. in 1949 and was worked, along with the Highlander (MINFILE 082FNE030), Albion (MINFILE 082FNE140) and other claims, up until 1959. It is reported that in 1953, 352 tonnes of ore was milled from the Jack Pot mine.

In 1979, David Minerals Ltd. conducted a program of geochemical (stream and silt) sampling on the area as the Peanut Butter claims of the Ainsworth property. The following year, Lacana Mining Corp. conducted a program of geological mapping on the Jack Pot claim. In 1990, Dragoon Resources Ltd. conducted a soil sampling program along Munn Creek, immediately west of Ainsworth, as the PB 7 claim.

In 2012, David Wallach prospected and rock sampled the area as the Ainsworth property. In 2019, Bill Mckinney conducted a program of prospecting, rock sampling and aerial photo structural interpretation on the Ainsworth property. In 2021, a 24.0 line-kilometre airborne (drone) magnetic survey was conducted on the area by Taylor Lorenzen. In 2023, Turnagain Resources Inc. conducted a further program of prospecting, rock sampling and aerial photo structural interpretation on the Ainsworth property.