The Big Kid occurrence is located approximately 2.75 kilometres east of Aspen Grove and 2.15 kilometres northwest of the north end of Alleyne Lake.

Regionally, the area is underlain by the Upper Triassic Nicola Group, which regionally consists of alkalic and calc-alkalic volcanics and intrusions of island arc origin, and which is the principal component of the Quesnel terrane in southern British Columbia (Geological Survey of Canada Maps 41-1989, 1713A). The area lies in the Central Belt or facies of the Nicola Group (after Preto, Bulletin 69). This belt of rocks mainly consists of subaerial and submarine, red or purple to green augite plagioclase porphyritic andesitic and basaltic flows, volcanic breccia and tuff, and minor argillites and limestone. The volcanics are intruded by bodies of comagmatic Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic diorite to monzonite. The area is characterized by long-lived, primarily north-striking faults and related fracturing, which originally controlled intrusion emplacement. East-striking faults are subordinate, and commonly offset intrusive contacts.

Locally, a west-striking shear zone cuts slightly altered massive green augite andesite porphyry of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group (Central Belt, Bulletin 69). The andesite exhibits epidote, chlorite and calcite alteration. The shear zone is mineralized with minor bornite and chalcopyrite along fractures. Significant secondary copper mineralization is also reported (Assessment Report 6555). Drilling on the projected western extension of the zone failed to intersect significant sulphide mineralization.

In 1978, a channel sample and three grab samples taken from a shaft and two nearby trenches averaged 0.26 per cent copper, 0.090 gram per tonne gold and 1.8 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 7100, page 11).

In 1980, a grab sample (4223) from an old hand trench yielded 2.667 per cent copper and 16.8 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 8743).

A roadside pit, located approximately 300 metres to the west of the occurrence, exposes a narrow zone of malachite staining in green laharic breccia. In the mid 1960s, a sample assayed 1.45 per cent copper, 11.3 grams per tonne silver and trace gold over 15.2 metres (Property File - S.E. Asano, 1967, page 10, sketch map).

In 1997, a chip sample (125871) of andesite with disseminated to blebby chalcopyrite and local malachite staining from the slope to the east-southeast of the occurrence yielded 0.529 per cent copper over 1.0 metre (Assessment Report 25611).

In 2012, a rock sample (725-20) of oxidized material hosting malachite and trace pyrite-chalcopyrite located on a north-trending ridge, approximately 550 metres to the south-southwest of the occurrence, yielded 0.294 per cent copper, 4.5 grams per tonne silver and 0.132 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 33851).

Work History

This occurrence was explored as early as 1901, when a small pit was excavated. Other pits and trenches are reported on the occurrence area and likely date to the early 1900s.

In 1966, B & B Mining and Exploration Ltd. and Dawood Mines Ltd. completed programs of prospecting, rock sampling and a 12.0 line-kilometre ground magnetic survey on the area as the Corky and Dote claims. In 1968, David Minerals Ltd. examined the occurrence area as the Halo and Broatch claims. Later that year, Norranco Mining and Refining Co. Ltd. completed 20.0 line-kilometres of combined ground magnetic, induced polarization and self-potential surveys on the Broatch, Halo and Ram claims.

1971, Frontier Explorations Ltd. and David Minerals Ltd. completed a program of soil sampling and a 32.0 line-kilometre ground magnetic survey on the area as the Halo, Ram, Lou, Chalco, Magnus and Touch claims of the Hans Haveroen Copper property. During 1975 through 1980, David Minerals Ltd. conducted programs of geological mapping, self-potential surveys, trenching and five diamond drill holes, totalling 169 metres, on the area as the Halo, Touch and Broatch claims.

In 1991, Northair Mines Ltd. completed a program of rock and soil sampling on the area as the Shear property. The following year, Placer Dome Inc. completed a program of geological mapping, trenching and soil sampling on the property. In 1993, Northair Mines Ltd. completed a further program of rock sampling on the property. In 1997, Christopher James Gold Corp. completed a program of geological mapping, geochemical (rock and soil) sampling and a 13.8 line-kilometre induced polarization survey on the area as the Big Kidd property.

In 2008, Christopher James Gold Corp. completed a 1113.5 line-kilometre airborne magnetic-radiometric survey on the Big Kidd property.

In 2011 and 2012, Xstrata Copper Canada Corp., on the behalf of Jiulian Resources Ltd., completed programs of prospecting, geochemical (rock and soil) sampling, six diamond drill holes, totalling 1808.7 metres, and a 56.8 line-kilometre induced polarization survey on the Big Kidd property. In 2018, Jiulian Resources Ltd. completed an 84.0 line-kilometre ground magnetic survey on the Big Kidd property. The following year, an 18.0 line-kilometre induced polarization survey was completed.