The Carrin showing is located about 1.6 kilometres northeast of Mount Shorty Stevenson, 2.7 kilometres west of the Bear River on the east side of the Bear River Ridge, 14 kilometres north of Stewart.

The area is underlain by north striking, west dipping Lower Jurassic Unuk River Formation (Hazelton Group) rocks comprising mainly andesitic tuffs and flows, and minor intercalated limestone (Bulletin 58; 63). Northwest trending dacite porphyry dikes are also present locally (Assessment Report 16082).

Mineralization consists of a small discontinuous zone of galena and sphalerite along the fractured contact of an andesitic dike in volcaniclastic rocks. A selected grab sample of high-grade galena assayed 7.8 grams per tonne gold, 373.0 grams per tonne silver, 33.1 per cent lead and 8.9 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 16082). The mineralization may be related to a northwest trending fault that extends from the nearby Rock of Ages Fr. showing (104A 134).

Work History

The history of the showing is not known but was likely found and pitted in the 1920s when Dalhousie Mining Company Limited owned the Rock of Ages claim group in the area. The showing was first reported in 1986, when Moche Resources Inc. conducted reconnaissance geological, geophysical and geochemical surveys on the Independence (104A 038) project. This work included sampling of the showing. In 2010, geological mapping, geophysical surveying and rock and soil sampling was carried out on the MC claims on behalf of REC Minerals Corp. and included 95 soil and 22 rock samples and total field magnetometer surveying along 1.9 kilometres. 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.