The AB 9 showing is located 5 kilometres east of Falkland, north of Warren Creek.

In this area, sedimentary and volcanic rocks of the Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Nicola Group are in fault contact to the north with Cambrian-Ordovician volcanic (Tsalkom Formation) and sedimentary (Sicamous Formation) rocks. To the south the Nicola Group is in probable unconformable contact with Devonian to Triassic sedimentary and volcanic rocks of the Harper Ranch Group. Cretaceous granodiorite plugs of the Salmon Arm Intrusions intrude the Nicola, Sicamous and Tsalkom rocks. Outliers of Eocene Kamloops Group volcanic rocks are present in the area.

The Sicamous Formation (possibly the Eagle Bay Formation or the Nicola Group) metasedimentary or metavolcanic rocks host copper mineralization. A sequence of chloritic argillites includes about 30 per cent interbedded quartz biotite schist which may represent original arenaceous beds. These sheared schist layers host disseminated chalcopyrite and pyrite over a 55 metre thickness. The best sample results are 15 metres of 0.21 per cent copper, including(?) 3 metres of 0.74 per cent copper (Assessment Report 4830).

In 1973, El Paso Mining and Milling Co. carried out a program of geological mapping, soil geochemistry and trenching.