The KET showing is located approximately 2.1 kilometres northwest of the Kettle Valley community of Christian Valley.

The KET uranium occurrence is hosted in conglomerate of the Eocene Marron Formation, Penticton Group. Andesite flows and trachyte tuffs of the Marron Formation form the west side of the Kettle Valley and underlie the Miocene-Pliocene Chilcotin Group plateau basalt. Granite, diorite and granodiorite of the Cretaceous-Tertiary Okanagan Batholith form the basement west of the Kettle Valley.

This general area was staked by Nissho-Iwai Canada Ltd. in 1969. The DONEN 126 claim covered the area of the showing and was part of the extensive BARTH claim group. In 1970, Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation (PNC) drilled 2 diamond drillholes on DONEN 126. Drillholes BCF-11 and BCF-12 both intersected the basal conglomerate of the Chilcotin Group plateau basalt, but downhole logging failed to detect anomalous radioactivity. PNC received more encouraging results from the FUKI (082ENE015) and CUP LAKE (082ENE041) areas, located 3.75 kilometres to the southwest and 6.5 kilometres to the northwest respectively, and subsequent work focused on those discoveries.

In 1978, Silver Acorn Developments Ltd. located the KET 1 & 2 claims over this area. Can-Lake Explorations Ltd. was contracted to carry out a radiometric survey and a 3-hole, 292.9-metre diamond-drill program. Drillhole KET #1 intersected a uraniferous conglomerate in the Eocene Marron Formation. A 1-metre section from 62.4 to 63.4 metres analysed 234 parts per million U3O8, which is equivalent to 0.0198 per cent uranium (Assessment Report 7262). A conversion rate of 0.848 U3O8 to uranium is used.

The conglomerate was described as being composed of 70 per cent granite, diorite and minor granodiorite, and 30 per cent volcanic clasts. Pebbles, cobbles and boulders are rounded to subrounded with a sandy matrix composed of quartz and feldspar grains.

Drillhole KET #1 is located approximately 70 metres east of Nissho-Iwai's drillhole BCF-12. The surface radiometric survey located a radioactive outcrop about 580 metres to the east of drillhole KET #1. A trachyte tuff, exposed in an old pit at this location, produced a 15,000 counts-per-second reading on a McFhar TV-1A spectrometer; background for the Marron Formation is approximately 3000 counts-per-second. Samples of the tuff analyzed 1.95 parts per million U3O8 (Assessment Report 7262).