The Dale occurrence is located on a small ridge to the west of a north flowing tributary of Whipsaw Creek, approximately 1.8 kilometres southwest of their confluence.
The area is underlain by andesitic to dacitic pyroclastics, flows and sediments of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group. Various intrusive and metamorphic rocks of the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous Eagle Plutonic Complex outcrop to the southwest.
Locally, a lens or small body of altered quart-feldspar gneiss, near the contact between quartz-sericite schist and coarse-grained pyroxene porphyry, hosts chalcopyrite, malachite and minor pyrite mineralization.
In 1971, Kerr Addison Mines Limited completed a program of prospecting, soil sampling, minor test pitting, an airborne magnetometer survey and a ground S.P. survey on the area as the Dale claims. In 1982, Chimera Resources completed a program of soil sampling on the area as the Violet claims.
