The Kaleden young uranium occurrence lies about 2.75 kilometres west of Kaleden, British Columbia. This occurrence lies near the northwest end of a 2 kilometre northwest trending area of erratic uranium and thorium occurrences. Uranium in sediments has been examined at the showing by one augerhole.

Regionally, the area is principally underlain by an assemblage of Eocene volcanics and sediments of Penticton Group. At the base of this assemblage, the Eocene Kettle River Formation consists of granite boulder conglomerate, arkose, volcanic wacke and rhyolite breccia. Volcanics of the Springbrook and Marron formations overlie the Kettle Creek Formation. To the south and north, these Eocene volcanics and sediments unconformably overlie medium grained intrusive rocks of the Cretaceous Okanagan batholith and Nelson plutonic suite, which to the south cuts Carboniferous to Permian Kobau Group metasedimentary rocks. The Okanagan batholith consists primarily of biotite granite and granodiorite, locally porphyritic. The Nelson plutonic rocks are hornblende biotite granodiorite, quartz diorite and granite. Both are massive, light grey weathering, medium to coarse grained and equigranular.

Bedrock types at the Kaleden young uranium occurrence are assigned to the Kitley Lake Member of the Marron Formation. The Kitley Lake Member consists mainly of massive, yellow to buff, trachyte to trachyandesite lava with conspicuous glomerophenocrystic feldspar and biotite clots in a fine-grained matrix. Minor ash-flow tuff, mudstone and intrusive equivalents comprise the remainder of this member. The Kitley Lake Member age lies between 52.9 Ma (biotite) and 44.2 Ma (whole rock) by potassium-argon dating.

Kaleden contains uranium in organic material on sands. The area of uranium accumulation is approximately 40,000 square metres in a 6.5-metre thick layer. The average uranium concentration yielded from samples taken from 1 augerhole was 0.009 per cent uranium with a maximum value of 0.0148 per cent uranium over a 0.5-metre interval (Culbert, 1979).