The Copper King - Copper Queen occurrence is located west of Amor de Cosmos Creek (formerly Bear Creek), approximately 1 kilometre south of Humpback Bay.

The area is underlain by Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation andesite, basalt and, to a lesser degree, by poorly developed volcanic breccias. The flow rocks are mainly dark green to grey- green in colour and commonly amygdaloidal or porphyritic. Amygdules are usually filled quartz, epidote and occasionally carbonate. Purplish andesitic fragments varying up to 2.54 centimetres in diameter are widely but apparently thinly scattered in the green basalt and andesite. A bedding attitude in the volcanics of 110 degrees and 70 degrees southwest dip has been measured. An irregular lens of purplish grey limestone has also been noted. It varies up to 16 centimetres in width and about 18 metres in length. Epidote and quartz are the most obvious alteration minerals in the area.

Work in the late 1920's identified this showing as being about 30 centimetres of "fine chalcopyrite ore in a quartz gangue in green- stone". A few pieces assayed 10.8 per cent copper, 20.568 grams per tonne silver and trace gold (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1927, page 352).

In 1971, Vanco Explorations completed soil sampling and a ground magnetometer survey on the area as the Bear claim.