The Vertebrae Ridge copper occurrence is located on the northeastern slopes of Vertebrae Ridge, approximately 2.5 kilometres northeast of Stovepipe Mountain.

The area is underlain by limestone, dolomite, marble, siltstone, shale and coarse to fine clastic sedimentary rocks of the Middle to Upper Cambrian Sullivan, Arctomys, Waterfowl, Stephen, Mount White, Mistaya, Bison Creek and Lyell formations.

Locally, two zones of extensive, structurally controlled, copper mineralization are reported in outcrops over strike lengths of approximately 2000 and 200 metres with widths of 50 to 100 metres in a northeast direction. These are related to a shear zone hosting quartz veins, stockworks and breccias with pyrite, chalcopyrite and bornite mineralization and malachite-azurite alteration. These are cut by non-sulphide bearing calcite-dolomite-siderite veins. The zones are hosted by limestones, dolomites and dolomitic shale.

In 2014 and 2015, the area was prospected by Rogers Wallis.