The Young occurrence is situated on Rocky Point Creek, a small tributary of Bugaboo Creek, approximately 32 kilometres west of the town of Brisco on Highway 95.
The area is underlain by metamorphosed sediments, including schists, slates, quartzites and grits, mapped as the upper Proterozoic Horsethief Group.
The earliest report on the property (Copper Butte), states that, in 1916, "about two cars of chalcopyrite were shipped to the Trail smelter" and that the property was closed in the fall of 1916. In 1916 and 1917, 31 tonnes were mined and a total of 53,876 grams of silver and 1,542 kilograms of copper were recovered. In 1923, the occurrence was staked as three groups of claims, each situated at different elevations along a mineralized quartz vein. At 2353 metres elevation, the Grey Eagle and Marjory claims covered the "Upper Lead". The Copper King and Copper Queen claims covered the "Middle Lead" at an elevation of 2,216 metres, 0.8 kilometre east of the Upper Lead. The "Lower Lead" was located at an elevation of 1,768 metres, 610 metres east of the Middle Lead.
In the Upper Lead, the vein is exposed in an open cut and short tunnel, now caved, showing more than a metre of disseminated copper sulphides in the "hanging wall side". In this cut, the vein is well defined and 2.4 to 3 metres wide. Here, it strikes 325 degrees with a steep dip to the northeast.
In the Middle Lead, the vein is also exposed in an open cut and short tunnel, now caved. At this point, the vein strikes 330 degrees and dips 58 degrees to the northeast. It shows a width of 1.3 metres of disseminated copper sulphides in the hanging wall of the quartz vein, which is 3 metres wide. Ten metres below the cut is a short crosscut tunnel that has caved. A grab sample yielded 0.7 gram per tonne gold, 78.86 grams per tonne silver and 11.2 per cent copper (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1923, page 198).
In the Lower Lead, the vein is exposed in the face of a bluff and is 3.4 metres wide. It shows much the same characteristics as the Upper and Middle leads. In this showing, the mineralization is strongest toward the footwall over a width of approximately 4.6 metres.
In 1961, St. Andrew Mining Co. Ltd. completed a program of geological mapping, geophysical surveys and eight drill holes, totalling 366 metres. Hole B5 intersected 12 metres yielding 0.46 per cent copper (Property File - A.C.A Howe [1966-10-20]: Report on the Westgate Mines Ltd. Properties in the Golden Mining Division).
In 1967, a channel sample from the Middle Lead assayed 0.90 per cent copper over 3.6 metres, while a grab sample from the Upper Lead yielded up to 9.90 per cent copper (Property File - S.J. Hunter [1967-09-11]: Report - Young Claim Group).
In 1966, Westgate Mines prospected and sampled the area. In 1967, Pharaoh Mines completed a program of prospecting, rock sampling and trenching. In 1983 and 1984, Palermo Resources mapped the area pertinent to the showings and conducted geochemical and geophysical surveys in the area. They had 18 grab and channel samples analyzed. The average metal values for these samples were 3.09 grams per tonne silver and 2.63 per cent copper (Assessment Report 14286, page 3).
