The Ice 3(A) showing is located on Bear River Ridge about 3.4 kilometres north-northwest of the confluence of Bitter Creek and the Bear River, 800 metres north-northeast of Mount Shorty Stevenson, 14 kilometres north of Stewart.

The area is underlain by north-northwest striking, folded volcanics and sediments of the Lower Jurassic Betty Creek Formation (Hazelton Group) (Open File 1987-22). Near the showing, the hostrocks comprise deformed red and green sandstone, tuffaceous sandstone and siltstone. Narrow, north-northwest trending dacitic dikes containing 1 to 5 per cent hornblende cut these rocks (Assessment Report 20429). The rocks are bleached and altered in several locations. The alteration, comprising silica, sericite and disseminations and veins of pyrite, appears to be associated with a northwest trending zone of folding and shearing (Assessment Report 20429).

The showing occurs in a narrow shear zone and consists of a 0.3 to 1.0 metre wide quartz-ankerite vein that trends 330 degrees and dips 70 degrees east. Immediately south-southeast of the showing, the shear lies along the east side of an alteration lens. The vein contains up to 20 per cent galena and sphalerite. A chip(?) sample assayed 21.46 per cent lead, 1.66 per cent zinc, 60.3 grams per tonne silver, 0.05 per cent copper and 0.07 gram per tonne gold across 0.5 metre (Assessment Report 20429).

Work History

The Ice 1-4 claims were recorded in 1986. In 1990, Navarre Resources Corp. conducted geological mapping, trenching, sampling, soil geochemical surveys, a pulse-EM survey and diamond drilling (1 hole, 99 metres). The showing was described that year.

In 2017 and 2019, Bonanza Mining Corp. completed programs of prospecting, geochemical (rock and soil) sampling and ground geophysical (induced polarization, magnetic and gravity) surveys on the area as the MC property.