The CD occurrence is located near the Mara Lookout forest service road, east of Kingfisher Creek and approximately 20 kilometres northeast of Mara.
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, semi-massive, coarse, black sphalerite with accessory pyrrhotite, pyrite and quartz is hosted by a diopside- bearing calc-silicate and marble in association with a quartzite. The mineralized zone varies over widths of 1.5 to 4.0 metres and has been traced for at least 30 metres along a north- north east strike.
In 2012, a rock sample assayed 0.474 per cent zinc and 0.356 per cent lead (Assessment Report 34180). The following year rock sampling of shallow hand trenches yielded up to 7.9 per cent zinc, while a 1.5 metre chip sample of trench 1 averaged 3.71 per cent zinc with 0.787 per cent lead (Assessment Report 34761). Sampling of trenches 2a and 2b, located approximately 20 metres to the south, yielded an average of 2.44 per cent zinc over 3 metres from trench 2a, while trench 2b, situated perpendicular to trench 2a, yielded 4.14 per cent zinc over 1.5 metres (Assessment Report 34761). In 2015, channel sampling of trench 3 yielded up to 2.86 per cent zinc over 0.5 metre, while grab samples yielded up to 5.49 per cent zinc and 0.54 per cent lead (Assessment Report 35513).
During 2012 through 2015, RIT Minerals completed programs of biogeochemical and geochemical (rock and soil) sampling, geological mapping, minor trenching and a 1.8 line-kilometre ground electromagnetic survey on the area as the CD claims.