The Cate showing is located about 7.5 kilometres northeast of the village of Eagle Creek, east of 100 Mile House.

Locally, the host rocks on the property include interbedded volcanic wacke, agglomerate and siltstone, overlain by porphyritic augite breccia flows of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group.

The showing is a quartz-carbonate vein mineralized with pyrite-pyrrhotite-arsenopyrite and lesser chalcopyrite, and which appears to be associated with a feldspar porphyry dike trending 030 degrees. A rock sample from the showing yielded a value of 0.747 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 24952).

The Cate showing was discovered in 1993 on the Papoose property. The area was previously staked as the Senicar claims by Imperial Metals Corporation in late 1983 following reconnaissance soil sampling which indicated highly anomalous arsenic values, along with spotty copper and gold anomalies. Reconnaissance exploration work was conducted for three years, and in 1987 and 1988, a more thorough examination and an induced polarization survey were conducted by Eastfield Resources. The Papoose claims were staked in 1993 and 1994 by David Ridley. Pioneer Metals Corporation optioned the property and initiated prospecting of the known geochemical anomalies, leading to the discovery of the Cate, and other small low-grade arsenic-copper-gold occurrences. David Ridley continued detailed prospecting, soil and rock sampling of the area surrounding the Cate showing in 1996, funded by the Prospectors Assistance Program. In 2016, the area was prospected and sampled by Eastfield Resources Ltd. as apart of the Iron Lake Property.