The King 3 occurrence is located on Songhees Creek, southeast of Lake of the Mountains, towards George Lake.

The area is underlain by tholeiitic basalt and homogeneous basic sheet flows of the Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group). Minor amounts of pyroclastic rocks and metasediments have also been reported.

Locally, a number of quartz veins cut an altered andesite tuff unit. One of the larger veins contains disseminated chalcopyrite. Upstream quartz veins have been noted in altered andesitic pyroclastics. Bornite and Pyrite have also been observed.

Work History

In 1990, the King claims were staked by Transtel Communications and a program of prospecting, geological mapping, and geochemical sampling was completed over the following two years. In 1991, five grab samples of mineralized quartz veins returned values ranging from 0.13 to 1.7 per cent copper (Assessment Report 21520).

Between 1993 and 1995, Westward Explorations completed programs of geological mapping, prospecting, geochemical sampling, magnetic - and VLF-EM surveys.

In 2019, Xplore Resource Corp. completed a program of prospecting and geochemical (rock, soil, and stream sediment) sampling on the area as part of the Valk property. An outcrop sample (3269978) from a 1.7-metre-wide gossanous fault breccia zone with disseminated pyrite and chalcopyrite assayed 0.828 per cent copper (Xplore Resources Corp. [2019-11-04]: Technical Report on the Valk Property, Northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada).