The King 24 occurrence is located near the junction of Erma Creek and the Shushartie River.

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, an area of extensive quartz veining with epidote and minor calcite hosts pyrite and chalcopyrite mineralization.

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, two grab samples returned 0.11 and 0.16 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.