The Ox (Three Way) occurrence is located approximately 1.3 kilometres northwest of the south end of Miner Lake and 1.1 kilometres southeast of the south end of Kidd 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.

Chalcopyrite, bornite, malachite, azurite, pyrite and chalcocite are hosted in green volcanic breccia, near the contact with limestone and massive green andesite of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group (Central Belt, Bulletin 69). This mineralization is associated with carbonate alteration. One north-trending ankeritic shear zone, 25 metres wide, is sparsely mineralized with chalcopyrite.

In 1985, four rock samples (BK-R01, -R02, -R06 and -R07) collected over a 200- by 80-metre area of historical trenches assayed 0.174 to 1.07 per cent copper with 0.4 to 12.6 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 14106, Figure 4).

Work History

During 1969 through 1973, Aspen Grove Mines Ltd. completed programs of soil sampling, a 16.0 line-kilometre ground induced polarization survey, a 12.0 line-kilometre ground electromagnetic survey and 38.0 line-kilometres of ground magnetic surveys on the area as the HH, Mix and 3-Way claim groups. Also in 1972, White River Mines Ltd. completed programs of geological mapping, soil sampling, ground geophysical surveys and 1824 metres on trenching on the area as the Dago and Open claims.

During 1981 through 1985, D.R. Morgan completed programs of geological mapping on the area as the Ox 1-3 claims. Also in 1985, Vanco Explorations Ltd. completed a program of prospecting and geochemical (rock and soil) sampling on the area as the Blak claim. In 1989 and 1990, Rise Resources Inc. completed a program of geochemical (historical core) sampling and a 3.4 line-kilometre ground magnetic survey on the area as the Cat 1-4 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.