The King 8 occurrence is on the north side of the Coquihalla Highway (Okanagan Connector), approximately 2.7 kilometres north-northeast of Culmination Point and 6.0 kilometres west of the summit of Pennask Mountain.

The area is underlain by fine clastic sedimentary rocks and basaltic volcanic rocks of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group which have been intruded by granodioritic rocks of the Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Pennask Batholith and granitic rocks of the Middle Jurassic Osprey Lake Batholith.

Locally, a shear zone, 70 centimetres wide, cuts coarse-grained, phyllic (sericitic (?))-altered granite of the Middle Jurassic Osprey Lake Batholith, near an andesitic dike. The showing is approximately 100 metres south of the contact with andesitic ash and lapilli tuff of the Upper Triassic Whistle Creek Formation (Nicola Group). A pyritic quartz-calcite vein/breccia is associated with the shear zone.

Work History

During 1986 through 1990, Fairfield Minerals Ltd. completed programs of prospecting and geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling on the area immediately southwest of the occurrence as the Sunset 1-8 claims. A float sample (L89-R14) of mineralized quartz vein, located approximately 1.5 kilometres south of the occurrence yielded 24.10 grams per tonne gold and 85.6 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 19840).

In 1991, Kingsvale Resources Inc. completed a program of prospecting and geochemical (rock and soil) sampling on the area as the King property. A sample (Q17-R2A) of selected chips from the vein yielded 0.44 gram per tonne gold and 10.6 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 21922, page 9, Table 2).

In 2010, Bitterroot Resources Ltd. completed a 52.7-line-kilometre airborne magnetic survey on the area as the Queen occurrence.

In 2016, Victory Resources Corp. completed a photogeological (lineament) interpretation study and 7.5-line-kilometres ground magnetic surveys on the area as the Toni property.

In 2019 and 2020, Rio Minerals Ltd. completed programs of prospecting and geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling on the area as the King property.