The DKD 2 showing is located 1.9 kilometres south of Arlington Lakes, and approximately 12 kilometres north-northeast of Carmi.
The showing consists of a mineralized outcrop on the Kettle Valley Railway right-of-way. Mineralization is hosted by an unnamed Middle Jurassic quartz diorite intrusion which is in contact with an altered gneissic diorite. The unnamed intrusion was previously mapped as Middle Jurassic Nelson Intrusions (Geological Survey of Canada Map 1736A). The altered diorite is strongly chloritized, silicified and, in some spots, serpentinized.
The DKD 2 showing consists of a west-northwest trending shear zone that dips 80 degrees south. Mineralization includes chalcopyrite, with limonite, specular hematite, epidote, chlorite, and biotite. Malachite staining is also noted. To the south approximately 50 metres is greenstone of the Carboniferous-Permian Anarchist Group.
The general area has numerous old workings, pits, and adits which date from the early 1900s. More recent work includes a 1971 magnetometer survey for Hudson's Bay Oil and Gas Ltd. and prospecting and geological mapping in 1973 for K.F. Brunning. In 1987, a small prospecting program was carried out by James McLeod for Edward Carson & Associates.
The 1971 magnetometer survey identified a magnetic anomaly along the geological contact between a gneissic diorite and a mafic diorite. It was noted that copper mineralization is coincident with this magnetic anomaly. Assays of the DKD 2 mineralization are not reported.
Mineralization similar to the DKD 2 showing is found 275 metres to the north along the railway right-of-way at the DKD 4 (082ENW043) showing.
In 1996, Madman Mining Co. Ltd. completed a prospecting, soil sampling, and a VLF-EM geophysical survey on the property containing the occurrence. Highlighted grab sample ARL02-G graded 0.21 percent copper and 11.8 grams per tonne silver and was comprised of malachite and azurite stained, highly oxidized vein (Kemp, R. (2017-07-13): National Instrument 43-101 Technical Report on the Arlington Property).
In 2015, Explorex Resources Inc completed magnetic and VLF-EM geophysical surveys, a prospecting and sampling program on the property containing the occurrence.
In 2017, Coast Mountain Geological Ltd. completed an exploration program including soil sampling, rock sampling, and 26.4 line-kilometres of ground magnetic and VLF-EM surveys.
In 2018, Clarmin Exploration Inc. completed a prospecting and soil sampling program on the Arlington property (Assessment Report 36956). The property was returned to Explorex Resources Inc. in late 2018.
