The Hit or Miss showing is 3.5 kilometres east-northeast of Aspen Grove and approximately 3 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.

The occurrence is hosted in well-bedded, red crystal and lapilli tuff of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group (Central belt, Bulletin 69). Locally, malachite, azurite and flakes of chalcocite occur in vertically dipping bands (fractures (?)) within a zone trending 066 degrees. A similar, possibly parallel zone of copper mineralization occurs 60 metres farther south.

In 1913, a chip sample from this zone assayed 0.6 per cent copper over 1.8 metres (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1913, page 223).

Work History

Two shallow shafts were excavated in the mineralized zones between 1901 and 1915.

In 1968, David Minerals Ltd. examined the occurrence area as the Lou and Magnus 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.

In 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.

The area was re-staked in 1989 as the Shear claims after copper mineralization was exposed in a roadcut along the north side of the recently completed Coquihalla Highway (Phase 3 - Okanagan Connector). The occurrence area was subsequently mapped, trenched and sampled by Amex Exploration Services Ltd. in 1990, Northair Mines Ltd. in 1991 and Placer Dome Inc. in 1992. 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 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.