The property is located on China Creek on the west side of the Columbia River 11.2 kilometres north of Trail, close to the main Highway.

Prospector Murray Swetz, of Vancouver, is reported to have obtained high scintillometer counts in the area in December 1967. He staked claims which were optioned to Calix Mines Ltd. in 1968. Norex Uranium Ltd. in 1968 acquired options on 66 claims in 3 groups in the same general area. Norex purchased a 50 per cent interest in 24 claims, the Atom 17-22 inclusive and Mota 1-18 inclusive, for $48,500 from Prospector Matthew Pritchard, of Edmonton, by an agreement dated May 1969. The company carried out prospecting, trenching, and diamond drilling at a cost of $9,162. Hogan Mines Ltd. in 1968 optioned 20 claims in the area from Prospector M. MacDougall of Nelson, who had conducted an airborne scintillometer survey over the area.

Silver Arrow Explorations Ltd. held a 20 claim uranium prospect in the area in 1968. The company in 1970 amalgamated with Buttle Lake Mining Company Limited under the name Stampede International Resources Ltd.

Subsequent events are lacking. Five companies: Golden Granite Mines Limited, Groundstar Resources Limited, Nevex Mines Ltd., Nomad Mines Ltd. and Tandem Resources Ltd. in January 1977 formed China Creek Uranium Consortium Inc, to consolidate 78 units covering 4,800 acres in the area. Stampede International Resources Ltd. and Northwest Ventures Ltd. agreed to provide joint financing in return for share interests in China Creek Uranium. Work in 1977 included Preliminary scintillometer, geochemical, and radon gas detection surveys, trenching, and percussion drilling in 51 holes to depths of 15.2 to 30 metres. The drilling was done in two areas, the Oko Poko Hill on the northeast side of China Creek, and on the southwest side of China Creek opposite Oko Poko Hill.

Coarse-grained feldspar and quartz are the dominant minerals in layered, shallow-dipping pegmatoid horizons of the Late Cretaceous Castlegar Gneiss Complex (possibly the metamorphic equivalent of the Pennsylvanian to Permian Mount Roberts Formation). Euhedral and subhedral grains of pitchblende, up to 1 millimetre across, occur in the pegmatites. The best assay result was about 0.02 per cent uranium across a thickness of 45 centimetres (Skerl, 1968).

Several radioactive occurrences lie to the west of this showing.