The Little Lottie occurrence is located approximately 1.9 kilometres west-southwest of the south end of Alleyne Lake and 2.7 kilometres northwest of the south end of Kentucky 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.

The occurrence is hosted in reddish to green augite plagioclase porphyritic basalt, near the contact with red volcanic breccia and lahar deposits of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group (Central Belt, Bulletin 69). The basalt is cut by north-northeast-striking veins and lenses of epidote and calcite up to 0.5 metre wide, mineralized with malachite and chalcocite. Some galena is also reported.

In 1985, a rock sample (4003R) assayed 0.77 per cent copper and 1.0 gram per tonne silver (Assessment Report 14108, Figure 5).

In 1992, a sample (92012) from the area of three historical shafts or pits yielded 1.05 per cent copper (Assessment Report 22382).

Work History

The occurrence was initially prospected between 1900 and 1904 by Messrs. Lowe and Brown. Three historical pits or shallow shafts, likely dating to this time, are reported to have been developed on the occurrence.

In 1969, F.R. Burton completed a 32.0-line-kilometre ground magnetic and electromagnetic survey on the area as the Amalg 37-44 claims.

During 1978 through 1980, Westward Energy & Resources Corp. completed programs of soil sampling and ground geophysical (induced polarization, magnetic and electromagnetic) surveys on the area immediately north of the occurrence as the AG claims.

Geological and rock and soil geochemical surveys were conducted by Vanco Explorations Ltd. in 1985. In 1990, MineQuest Exploration Associates Ltd. rock sampled the area as the Ley 1-3, Al 1-2 and Ken claims. The following year, a 6.5 line-kilometre induced polarization survey was completed on the claims. In 1992, Pacific Copper Fields Inc. and MineQuest Exploration Associates Ltd. completed a program of geological mapping and rock sampling on the claims. In 1995, Discovery Consultants completed a program of prospecting and geochemical (rock and soil) sampling on the area as the Payco 1-4 and Cincinnatti 1-6 claims.

In 2008, Christopher James Gold Corp. completed a 1113.5-line-kilometre airborne magnetic-radiometric survey on the area as 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 and a 56.8-line-kilometre induced polarization survey on the Big Kidd property.