Regionally the area is underlain by the Upper Triassic Nicola Group which is intruded by an Early Jurassic medium grained quartz hornblende diorite to diorite intrusion. Alteration of mafic minerals to chlorite is common in the dioritic rocks. Local concentrations of epidote, pink feldspar +/- calcite +/- magnetite are also observed. Nicola Group rocks consist of andesitic volcanic flows, tuffs and feldspar porphyries, coarse fragmentals and sedimentary rocks. The sedimentary sequence is composed of grey to white, fine grained, locally fossiliferous limestone.
At the main P & L showing, sphalerite and chalcopyrite occur as veins and stringers in silicified and carbonatized Nicola Group andesitic tuffs and flows which are in contact with quartz feldspar porphyry. About 350 metres north are two small showings 200 metres apart of malachite +/- chalcopyrite in quartz feldspar porphyry and andesitic volcanics. About 700 metres east of the main P & L showing, massive fine-grained magnetite with minor malachite was observed in andesitic volcanics in contact with quartz diorite. Six hundred metres south of this magnetite showing, magnetite and malachite occur in massive epidote-pink feldspar replacements in andesitic volcanics.
The earliest known reference to work done in this area was in 1944, where the Fairview group of eight claims were held by Lester Starnes of Ashcroft and J.W. Oakes of Calgary. Some opencut work and diamond drilling were completed. The lowest working or pit is assumed to be the P & L showing (this description); about 914 metres northwest is a second pit that is assumed to be the Fairview or Main showing (092INW037). The Fairview property lapsed and then was restaked in 1955 by Ashdown and Winters. The B.C. Department of Mines completed a Geiger survey in 1958 but the results are unknown. In 1961, prospecting, line cutting and soil sampling was done in the area of the Main showing. In 1967, caterpillar trenching totalling 213 metres in four trenches was performed on the Main showing and supervised by M.P. Stadnyk. In 1971, Cache Creek Copper Mines Ltd. reportedly diamond drilled seven or eight holes totalling over 609 metres; some geological mapping was performed by Rio Tinto. L. Ovington restaked the area as the P & L claims in 1971. In 1972, Colt Management Ltd. contracted Kenting Earth Sciences to conduct a reconnaissance induced polarization survey consisting of two lines, 122 metres apart, totalling 3.2 kilometres. The property was optioned in 1972 to Northland Mines Ltd. and a magnetometer survey was done by M.P. Stadnyk. The claims lapsed in 1975 and were restaked as the Walla claim in the same year. The Walla claim lapsed in 1976 and the Quinto claims are a relocation of the lapsed Walla claim. In 1977, Quinto Mining Corporation completed geological mapping, geochemical and magnetometer surveying. In 1980, a geochemical and VLF-EM survey was completed. In 1983 and 1985, VLF-EM surveys were conducted. In 1996, three diamond-drill holes totalling 295 metres were put down on the Main showing by GWR Resources Inc. In late 2018 and early 2019, Golden Lion Resources Inc. completed a program of rock sampling and an airborne geophysical survey on the area as the Fairview property.
