The Copper Cliff skarn occurrence is located at the head of Bee Creek canyon, at approximately 750 metres elevation.

The area is underlain by the northwestern end of a northwesterly trending keel of metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks (Alexander terrane) that extend southeasterly along the shores of Princess Royal Channel. These comprise predominantly of fine- to medium-grained metagreywackes containing minor amounts of what may have originally been either tuffaceous or pelitic beds. The Alexander terrane rocks have been intruded and surrounded by granodiorite rocks of the Cretaceous Butedale pluton (Ecstall Plutonic Suite). Regional metamorphism progressed to biotite-garnet grade in the middle amphibolite facies throughout the Alexander terrane rocks.

Locally, a skarn zone is located at the contact of Butedale pluton granodiorite and the Copper Cliff marble, a 1.5 metre thick pale green carbonate. Mineralized exoskarn is very similar to that of the Pink Rose (MINFILE 103H 029) occurrence, both in mineralogy and bornite-chalcocite content.

Between 1996 and 2005, the area was prospected and sampled by J.T. Lawrence. Previous work in the area centred on the nearby Pink Rose (MINFILE 103H 029) occurrence, with minor trenching occurring on the Copper Cliff occurrence in the 1920‘s. In 2005, a composite sample of high-grade bornite-bearing exoskarn, sample K 15-2, returned 6.78 per cent copper (Assessment Report 28298).