The Copper Prince occurrence is situated west of the Kettle River on the south side of Ed James Creek, approximately 12.9 kilometres north of Rock Creek.
The area is underlain by Permian to Upper Triassic Anarchist Group greenstones, limestone and argillites. These rocks have been intruded by Cretaceous granites of the Nelson and Valhalla Plutonic suites. Both the Anarchist Group and Nelson and Valhalla intrusive rocks are overlain by the sedimentary Kettle River Formation, which is in turn overlain by the Tertiary Phoenix Group volcanics.
The property is underlain by chloritic schist intruded by coarse-grained granitic rock and several smaller dikes.
As of 1948, a tunnel had been driven 9.1 metres (30 feet) at 110 degrees near the centre of the Copper Prince No. 1 claim to the west. Three metres from the portal, mining activity exposed a small, 15-centimetre-wide quartz vein containing copper staining with slight mineralization. Upon encountering a dike three metres from the face, the vein began to drag behind the dike.
Approximately 7.6 metres to the east and up a small hill, a small cut had been excavated on the contact between greenschist rocks to the south and intrusive rocks to the north. The contact could be traced up the hill to the east for approximately 457 metres. Additional small cuts along the contact exposed minor copper staining with occasional small quartz veinlets.
Sometime prior to 1948, the Copper Prince claim group was acquired by Nick Barlow and Ralph A. Gaustin.
In 1948, the Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting and Power Company Limited conducted an examination of the Copper Prince claim group. Several chip and grab samples were collected from the tunnel; however, only two samples returned trace gold. Mineralization on the property was not considered to be of economic importance and the company declined any further involvement.
During 2008 through 2012, Grizzly Discoveries Inc. completed programs of geochemical (rock, stream sediment and soil) sampling, geological mapping and airborne and ground geophysical surveys on the Dayton-Sidley area of the Greenwood Property.
