The King 43 occurrence is located southwest of Shushartie Mountain, on an un-named creek flowing southeast into Lake of the Mountains.

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, widely spaced zones of small quartz veins and stringers contain pyrite and chalcopyrite. In the north-central portion of the area, a zone of epidote skarn suggests an intrusive into the metasediments. The metasediments contain traces of arsenopyrite.

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, grab samples from this area returned up to 0.6 per cent copper and 118 parts per billion gold (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.