The Kettle 1 occurrence is located on a small ridge, east of Triple Lakes and north of the Kingston (L.2300) Crown grant.

The area is underlain by andesite, rhyolite tuff, breccias and cherty sediments of the Upper Paleozoic Anarchist Group. The Anarchist rocks are intruded by quartz diorite and granodiorite bodies related to the Jurassic Westkettle pluton (Nelson Intrusions).

Locally, two types of mineralization have been identified: type 1 consists of randomly orientated quartz veinlets host arsenopyrite, galena, pyrrhotite and pyrite and type 2 consists of well-defined, erratic fissure veins, generally trending north 40 degrees east and dipping 70 to 90 degrees west and hosting disseminated to massive arsenopyrite and pyrite with minor disseminated pyrrhotite and galena.

In 1981, surface samples of type 1 and 2 mineralization yielded up to 23.0 and 67.9 grams per tonne gold with 276 and 53.0 grams per tonne silver, respectively (Property File - unknown [unknown]: Description of the Showings - Project #280, South Okanagan). Diamond drilling yielded up to 5.8 grams per tonne gold and 26.0 grams per tonne silver over 0.5 metre in hole 81-1 and 7.3 grams per tonne gold over 0.3 metre in hole 81-3 (Assessment Report 10098).

The area has been historically explored, since the late 1800’s, in conjunction with the nearby O.K. (MINFILE 082ESE067) and Kingston (MINFILE 082ESE244) occurrences.