The Ice property is located 70 kilometres northeast of Hazelton in the Atna Range on a tributary of Shelagyote River.

The area is underlain by argillite, hornfels and pebble conglomerate of the Middle Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous Bowser Lake Group intruded by quartz diorite of the Late Cretaceous Bulkley Intrusions.

Pyrrhotite and less commonly chalcopyrite are found disseminated through much of the intrusion. Chalcopyrite and molybdenite are also found in hairline fractures in the quartz diorite, commonly associated with sericitic alteration (Assessment Report 2070). Quartz veins, up to 10 centimetres wide, contain galena. The best surface exposures are on the Ice 38 and 39 claims and have been exposed for approximately 120 metres along strike by trenching. On the southeast corner of the Ice 38 claim, several quartz veins occur along a shear zone and contain small amounts of lead and silver. Float boulders of similar material containing a greater amount of galena and reported to be rich in silver were also identified upslope on the Ice 38 claim. A second zone of mineralization is reported approximately 3 kilometres to the north on the Ice 5-7 claims.

Work History

In 1968 and 1969, Sicintine Mines Limited completed programs of geochemical (soil and rock) sampling, geological mapping and trenching. Samples from rock pits blasted into outcrops were reported to indicate a copper and molybdenum content of approximately 0.02 per cent each, whereas a sample from a galena-rich float boulder yielded 5.5 grams per tonne gold and 6500 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 2070; Property File 16159).

In 2013 and 2014, Vale Exploration Canada Inc. completed a program of geological mapping, geochemical sampling and a 3278.0 line-kilometre airborne magnetic survey on the area as the S2 property. In 2017, an induced polarization and magnetotellurics survey was completed on the property. Samples from the Ice occurrence area of monzonite with wide-spaced quartz-potassium feldspar-sulphide (pyrite, chalcopyrite, and molybdenite) veining yielded up to 0.09 per cent copper and 0.01 per cent molybdenum, whereas a float sample (RX398073) of quartz vein with pyrite-chalcopyrite and molybdenite-sericite envelopes, located approximately 4.5 kilometres north of the Ice occurrence yielded 0.123 per cent molybdenum (Assessment Report 35139).