The Northwind (Old Timer) is located at approximately 1050 metres elevation, west of Krao Creek and approximately 2.7 kilometres 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.

Locally, three veins of broken schistose material with some quartz and galena occur in slates and schists that strike south 30 degrees west and dip southeast from 50 degrees to 80 degrees. The occurrence is reported to be the southern extension of the United (MINFILE 082FNE077) occurrence.

In 1899, a 1-tonne shipment yielded 2239 grams of silver.

Work History

By 1899, a crosscut tunnel, 75 metres long, had been run into the first of the three veins, on which a drift had been run to the right for 23 metres and to the left for 24 metres. There is a showing of galena in this tunnel and is a second tunnel, approximately 10 metres long, occurs on the same vein.

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.

In 2012, David Wallach prospected and rock sampled the area as the Ainsworth property. In 2023, Turnagain Resources Inc. conducted a program of prospecting, rock sampling and aerial photo structural interpretation on the Ainsworth property.