The Lou property is located in the Rock Creek graben on the east side of the Kettle River. The area is underlain mainly by mafic volcanics of the late Paleozoic Wallace Group which are unconformably overlain by Eocene conglomerate and sandstone of the Kettle River Formation and alkalic volcanic rocks of the Marron Formation, both part of the Penticton Group. Farther east, the west-dipping Greenwood normal fault forms the eastern margin of the Rock Creek graben, with Eocene granitic rocks exposed in its footwall.

In 1968, the Lou claims, which lie east of the Kettle River, covered a pyritic gossan. At the time Rip Van Mining Ltd. conducted geochemical sampling, which resulted in anomalous copper (up to 0.04 per cent), zinc (up to 0.32 per cent) and silver (up to 8 grams per tonne) (Assessment Report 1722). These anomalies are about 1 kilometre southeast of the gossan. A 94-metre hole was drilled in 1969 (results are unknown). In 1975, Tech Corporation Ltd. covered the area west of the Kettle River with the Ket claim. They conducted 2.52 line kilometres of VLF-EM and collected 83 geochemical soil samples. Minor malachite was report in tuffs. In 1977 and 1980, San Antonio Explorations Ltd. conducted geochemical and geological surveys on the Reno claim to the south. They reported pyrite and pyrrhotite, with minor chalcopyrite and galena in trenches (Assessment Report 6899).