The AL 2 occurrence is located approximately 1.4 kilometres south-southwest of the south end of Miner Lake and 2.9 kilometres southeast of the south end of Kidd Lake.

Regionally, the area is underlain by the Upper Triassic Nicola Group, which regionally consists of alkalic and calc-alkalic volcanics and intrusions of island arc origin, and which is the principal component of the Quesnel terrane in southern British Columbia (Geological Survey of Canada Maps 41-1989, 1713A). The area lies in the Central Belt or facies of the Nicola Group (after Preto, Bulletin 69). This belt of rocks mainly consists of subaerial and submarine, red or purple to green augite plagioclase porphyritic andesitic and basaltic flows, volcanic breccia and tuff, and minor argillites and limestone. The volcanics are intruded by bodies of comagmatic Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic diorite to monzonite. The area is characterized by long-lived, primarily north-striking faults and related fracturing, which originally controlled intrusion emplacement. East-striking faults are subordinate, and commonly offset intrusive contacts.

Locally, copper mineralization occurs in limy siltstone and impure limestone near the contact with green volcanic breccia and/or diorite of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group (Central Belt, Bulletin 69).

In 1990, a rock sample (AL90001) assayed 1.43 per cent copper and 0.001 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 20551, Figure 3).

Work History

In 1990, MineQuest Exploration Associates Ltd. rock sampled the area as the Ley 1-3, Al 1-2 and Ken claims. The following year, a 6.5-line-kilometre induced polarization survey was completed on the area immediately north of the occurrence. In 1992, Pacific Copper Fields Inc. and MineQuest Exploration Associates Ltd. completed a program of geological mapping and rock sampling on the claims.

In 2006, Bold Ventures Inc. completed a program of geochemical (rock and soil) sampling and a 28.0-line-kilometre induced polarization survey on the area as the Casper claims of the Kentucky Lake property.

In 2012, Enduro Metals Corp. completed a photogeological structural (lineament) interpretation on the area as the Tom Cat property. In 2014, a further photogeological structural (lineament) analysis and a 2.1-line-kilometre ground magnetic survey was completed on the area immediately west of the occurrence.