The Nup occurrence is located about 30 kilometres southeast of Dease Lake.
The showing occurs within the Middle to Late Jurassic Snowdrift Creek pluton which has intruded an assemblage of Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks. This assemblage occurs about 1 kilometre to the southwest and consists of grey and maroon plagioclase porphyry, andesite, volcanic conglomerate, tuffaceous mudstone, breccia, rhyolite, minor siltstone and shale.
In 1973, Kennco reported a large zone of disseminated pyrite and minor chalcopyrite within granodiorite. The zone also contains narrow quartz veinlets with pyrite and molybdenite. Three diamond-drill holes were completed on the Nup 69 and 71 claims about 1.5 kilometres south of where mineralized molybdenite samples were plotted. Drillhole results were not documented.
Utah Mines probably held the showings in 1976 but little is known of the work done at that time (Exploration in British Columbia 1976, page 192).
Apparently, the same showings were further examined and described by Serrana Resources in 1981. Serrana reported quartz veinlets in hornblende biotite granodiorite with molybdenite as fine specks disseminated near the vein margins. The quartz is milky white and the veinlets range from 10 to 25 millimetres in thickness. Potassium feldspar envelopes occur along the margins of the quartz veins and rarely carry fine molybdenite and sometimes pyrite. Very fine chalcopyrite also occurs.
In 2005, B.K. Bowen staked the MO property to cover the Nup showing and completed a detailed compilation of past work and an air photo lineament study of the claims and adjacent areas.
In 2008, Paget Moly Corp. conducted an extensive field program on the large JD property consisting of mapping, checking Regional Geochemical Survey (RGS) anomalies, prospecting, and evaluating MINFILE occurrences. Sixty-four rock and silt samples were collected for analysis. This work successfully identified historical showings (Joyce, 104I 049; Nup, 104I 059; Wolf, 104I 056; And Ginger, 104I 140; and a broad zone of strong alteration, the Straight Up zone, 104I 172).
In 2011, Finsbury Exploration Ltd. carried out exploration over the property as part of a soil and silt sampling program over a much larger 168,983 hectare property area known as the Galaxie property. In 2012, Quartz Mountain Resources Ltd., on the Galaxie property, conducted systematic soil and induced polarization surveys over eight high-priority grids and two target areas identified by the 2011 stream sediment and soil geochemical results. This work included an induced polarization survey over almost the entirety of title 512878 and the southeastern third of title 604847.
