The Big Kidd North occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 1140 metres on the northwest slope of a small hill, northeast of Aspen Grove and approximately 1 kilometre south-southwest of the south end of Tule Lake.

Regionally, the area is underlain by the Upper Triassic Nicola Group, which regionally consists of alkalic and calc-alkalic volcanics and intrusions of island arc origin, and which is the principal component of the Quesnel terrane in southern British Columbia (Geological Survey of Canada Maps 41-1989, 1713A). The area lies in the Central Belt or facies of the Nicola Group (after Preto, Bulletin 69). This belt of rocks mainly consists of subaerial and submarine, red or purple to green augite plagioclase porphyritic andesitic and basaltic flows, volcanic breccia and tuff, and minor argillites and limestone. The volcanics are intruded by bodies of comagmatic Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic diorite to monzonite. The area is characterized by long-lived, primarily north-striking faults and related fracturing, which originally controlled intrusion emplacement. East-striking faults are subordinate, and commonly offset intrusive contacts.

Locally, historical trenches expose a carbonate-altered diorite and potassium feldspar–altered andesite to microdiorite with disseminated and stringer pyrite-chalcopyrite mineralization.

In 1997, chip samples (95592 and 95594) from two separate old trenches yielded 2.25 and 1.29 per cent copper, 15.8 and 1.4 grams per tonne silver with 0.210 and 0.150 gram per tonne gold over 1 metre each, respectively, whereas selective grab samples (95588) from an old trench, located approximately 250 metres south of the previous samples, yielded 1.78 per cent copper, 7.8 grams per tonne silver and 0.255 gram per tonne gold over 1 metre (Assessment Report 25611).

Work History

The area has been explored in conjunction with the nearby Big Kidd (MINFILE 092HNE074) and Big Sioux (MINFILE 092HNE073) occurrences and a complete exploration history for the area can be found there. A number of historical trenches are reported in the occurrence area.