The Slide occurrence is located on the north side of the Quesnel River, approximately 2 kilometres southwest of Slide Mountain.

Regionally, the area lies in the Central Quesnel Belt of southcentral British Columbia and is underlain by Nicola Group rocks that, in this area, consist of a lower assemblage of Upper Triassic sedimentary and basic volcanic rocks overlain by a Lower to Middle Jurassic assemblage of dominantly volcanic breccias and tuffs (characterized by the presence of feldspathic clasts). The top of the basic volcanic assemblage is marked by discontinuous lenses of dark-grey limestone, which also delimits the top of the Triassic assemblage.

Locally, limestone conformably overlies pyroxene basalt breccia to the west. Basaltic and felsic breccias are present to the east. The contact between the limestone and the breccias to the east has been interpreted as a fault. The limestone is intruded by hornblende porphyry dikes, felsic dikes and felsic sills.

Copper mineralization occurs within the limestone and in the underlying basalt as fracture fillings and is accompanied by silicification. Copper minerals consist of bornite, chalcocite and tetrahedrite with secondary malachite and minor azurite. In the basalt, copper occurs mainly in minor amounts of chalcopyrite. Mineralization is epigenetic and possibly related to the felsic intrusions.

Samples are reported to have yielded 0.52 per cent copper across 3.3 metres of limestone (Property File - J.C. Stephen [1967-02-15]: Report - Cariboo project 1966 - Mastodon Highland Bell Mines).

In 1966, the area was examined by Mastodon Highland Bell Mines. In 1971, Nippon Mines of Canada completed a program of geological mapping. In 1983 and 1984, Curator Resources completed a program of geological mapping, geochemical sampling and geophysical surveys, and planned six shallow drillholes the area as the Slide Mountain property.