The C.O.D. occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 1200 metres on east-facing slopes near the southern end of Jewel Lake.

The area is underlain by a complex of metamorphic rocks, mostly of sedimentary and volcanic origin correlative with the Carboniferous or older Knob Hill Group, and a large granodiorite intrusion correlative to the Juro-Cretaceous Nelson Plutonic Rocks. Small dikes and sill-like bodies, feeders to nearby Tertiary lavas, pervade these units. Four north- striking and one northwest- striking quartz fissure-vein structures are known in the Jewel Lake camp, all of which have received some development.

Locally, a “Dentonia-type” quartz vein in granodiorite is reported and has been explored by a number of shafts, adits and trenches over a length of 330 metres. The C.O.D. vein is 1.2 metres wide and strikes roughly parallel to the Jewel-Dentonia (MINFILE 082ESE055) vein, located approximately 1.5 kilometres to the east, but dips steeply to the west. The vein is comprised of quartz with some calcite and pyrite, with galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite and telluride mineralization.

A grab sample of the vein assayed 20.5 grams per tonne gold and 115.6 grams per tonne silver, while the average of chip samples over 1.2 metres, from the C.O.D. shaft, assayed 10.3 grams per tonne gold and 102.6 grams per tonne silver (Property File - W.W. Cummings [1986-07-17]: Report on the Tel 2 Mineral Claim).

In 1988, a diamond drill hole (No.11) intersected 0.75 metre yielding 7.4 grams per tonne gold and 86.8 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 17579).

During the early 1900’s, the area was staked as the C.O.D. claims and a 21 metre shaft and two adits were sunk on the main vein. During 1983 through 1988, Glendale and Blackmist resources explored the area as the Tel 1-2 claims.