The OM (Kingfisher) marble occurrence is located between Kingfisher and Danforth creeks, approximately 1.7 kilometres north- north west of their junction.

The area lies within the Precambrian-Paleozoic(?) Shuswap Metamorphic Complex, a belt of high- grade metamorphic rocks. Rocks on the property comprise a heterogeneous package of granitoid gneiss, augen gneiss, sillimanite-bearing schist and prominent marble and quartzite layers. See Kingfisher (MINFILE 082LNE007) for a detailed regional geology description.

Locally, thick beds (averaging 61 metres) of marble, calc-silicate gneiss and quartzite are complexly folded and faulted, striking generally north-northeast and dipping southeast. Foliation is sub-parallel to the layering. The marble unit varies from 30 to 50 metres in width and has been traced for 800 metres along strike. Trace galena and white mica are also observed in some outcrops while a zone of sphalerite mineralization, 1 to 3 metres wide, was encountered in the back of the quarry pit and traced along two trenches, 12 and 32 metres to the north. This mineralization may be related the nearby Mile 8 (MINFILE 082LNE003) occurrence.

In 1988, relatively pure marble containing few sulphides and impurities were sampled and yielded 51.98 per cent calcium oxide, 0.14 per cent iron (III) oxide, 2.33 per cent silicon dioxide, and 41.81 per cent loss on ignition (Assessment Report 14740). In 1995, analysis of representative rock sample from the pit ranked the marble as a siliceous limestone or magnesian limestone with concentrations of silica, alumina and siderite above the minimum purity standards of high-calcium limestone (Assessment Report 24607).

In 1994, a bulk sample of 24,000 tonnes of white marble was quarried and 4000 tonnes was processed into landscape rock (Assessment Report 24607).

The area was originally explored in the 1960’s for lead-zinc mineralization. In 1988, the area was prospected by McCrory Holdings as the OM claims. In 1991, Franz Capitol acquired the property and over the next two years completed programs of geological mapping, trenching and 804 metres of diamond drilling. In 1994, Kingfisher Marble completed a program of geological mapping, stripping, trenching and bulk sampling.