The Big Kidd East occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 1150 metres on a northeast-facing slope, east-northeast of Aspen Grove and approximately 2 kilometres south 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, a potassic-altered monzonite and monzodiorite hosts magnetite veinlets, local brecciated quartz veins and patchy pyrite-chalcopyrite mineralization.

In 1997, a drillhole (BK97-01) yielded 0.32 gram per tonne gold over 35.9 metres within a potassic-altered monzonite dike, and chip samples (95558 and 95559) from a small trench located above the drilling intersection yielded values of 2.69 and 1.75 grams per tonne gold, 1.8 and 4.4 grams per tonne silver with 0.650 and 1.52 per cent copper over 0.6 and 0.8 metre, respectively (Assessment Report 25611). Also at this time, a grab sample (95560) of mineralized quartz vein from a dump yielded 3.11 grams per tonne gold, 7.2 grams per tonne silver and 0.635 per cent copper (Assessment Report 25611).

Work History

The area has been explored in conjunction with the nearby Big Kidd (MINFILE 092HNE074) occurrence and a completed exploration history for the area can be found there. Historical trenches are reported in the occurrence area.