The Owen occurrence is located east of the Rayfield River and approximately 4.2 kilometres northwest of the western end of Young Lake. It is adjacent to and located southeast of the Rayfield copper (MINFILE 092P 005) property and is probably part of the same large mineralized alkaline intrusive complex.

Regionally, the area is underlain by several phases of a probably Late Triassic to Early Jurassic syenitic to monzonitic to dioritic plutonic complex. The complex occurs as a window through the extensive Miocene plateau basalts which blanket much of the Cariboo Plateau. The main lithologies are a fine grained leucosyenite and hornblende biotite syenite of varying texture and granularity (Assessment Report 3478).

Numerous pegmatite and aplite dikes intrude the syenites, and are usually mineralized with bornite, chalcopyrite, chalcocite and pyrite as disseminations and along joint surfaces.

In 2015, a grab sample (RD15-R05) assayed 0.224 per cent copper (Assessment Report 35761).

The earliest recorded work on the property was in 1963, when Kennco Explorations (Western) Limited completed programs of geological mapping and geochemical sampling (soil and stream sediments) on the Pat group of claims.

In 1966, Cominco Limited completed a program of soil sampling (800 samples) and magnetometer surveying on the I.D.S. 1 to 16 claims located adjacent to the Pat group. In 1967 and 1968, Rayfield Mining Company Ltd. completed ground and airborne geophysical surveys on the area immediately southeast as the Joe claims.

In 1968, Mr. C. Dansey restaked the property as the BD claims and undertook a program of bulldozer trenching, then subsequently optioned the property to Amax Exploration Inc. During 1968 through 1970, Amax Exploration Inc. completed programs of geological mapping, soil sampling (approximately 1230 samples), magnetometer and induced polarization surveys and 31 percussion drill holes, totalling 1749 metres, on the area immediately north.

In 1971, G.V. Lloyd Exploration Ltd. completed programs of prospecting, magnetometer surveying (80.1 kilometres), and rock chip and soil geochemical surveying (1500 samples analyzed for total heavy metals) on the Owen group I and Owen group II mineral claims, which covered the property.

During 2006 through 2008, Candorado Operating Company Ltd. completed programs of soil sampling, seven diamond drill holes, totalling 1584.2 metres, and a 409.0 line-kilometre airborne geophysical survey on the area as the Rayfield River property.

During 2014 through 2016, programs of prospecting, geological mapping and minor geochemical sampling were performed on the area as the Rayfield 1-2 claims.