The Ken occurrence is located in the western headwaters of Washlawlis Creek, approximately 2.5 kilometres north of Red Island in Rupert Inlet.

Regionally, the area is underlain by northwest-trending belts of basaltic volcanics and carbonate sedimentary rocks of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen and Quatsino formations (Vancouver Group) and mafic volcanics and sediments of the Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group (Holberg volcanic unit, Nahwitti River wacke and Parson Bay Formation). These volcanic and sedimentary rocks have been intruded by granodioritic rocks of the Early to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite.

In the area of the Lake, Ken and F claims, diamond drilling has shown interbedded limy argillites and tuffs of the Parson Bay Formation to be underlain by Quatsino Formation limestone, which is in turn underlain by Karmutsen Formation volcanics. Disseminated pyrite and chalcopyrite are present in fractures and calcite veinlets in the Parson Bay rocks, and in skarn located near the Quatsino-Karmutsen contact.

In 1974, a drillhole (M5), located on the southeastern corner of the Lake claim, intersected 4.8 metres of mineralized skarn and breccia averaging 0.58 per cent copper (Assessment Report 6027).

In 1965 and 1966, BHP-Utah Mines completed programs of geological mapping, soil sampling and ground geophysical programs on the area as the Bay and Cove claims. During 1974 through 1979, BHP-Utah Mines completed six diamond drill holes, totalling 1523.0 metres, on the Ken and Lake claims. In 1985, BHP-Utah Mines completed a soil sampling program on the area.