The AL 1 occurrence is located approximately 1.1 kilometres southeast of the south end of Miner Lake and 2.3 kilometres north-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.

Locally, a shaft and several pits or trenches expose copper (bornite?) mineralization in red volcanic and laharic breccia of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group (Central Belt, Bulletin 69).

In 1985, a rock sample (88601), taken approximately 300 metres east of the plotted location of the shaft, assayed 0.805 per cent copper and 4.2 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 14108).

In 1990, a sample (KN90002) of moderately altered medium- to coarse-grained diorite with bornite(?), taken adjacent to the shaft, assayed 0.189 per cent copper and 0.001 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 20551, Figure 3).

Work History

A historical shaft and several pits or trenches, likely dating to the early 1900s, are reported to have been developed on the occurrence.

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.

In 1985, Vanco Explorations Ltd. completed a program of prospecting and geochemical (rock and soil) sampling on the area as the Finn and Mickey claims.

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.