The WDR occurrence is located west of Forge Creek, approximately 3.5 kilometres northwest of its junction with Guichon Creek.

The area covers the northwest contact between Upper Triassic Nicola Group volcanics in the east and the Upper Triassic to Middle Jurassic Guichon Creek Batholith in the west. The contact is gradational, showing a change from unaltered Nicola volcanics on the east through baked, hornfelsic Nicola into medium-grained diorite, which becomes progressively lighter coloured and coarser grained to the west. The width of the transitional hybrid zone varies from 304 to 1219 metres.

Locally, a trench exposes a steep mineralized fault that strikes 050 degrees and is parallel to joints in the adjacent quartz diorite of the Hybrid phase of the Guichon Creek Batholith. Chalcopyrite and lesser amounts of bornite are present as fracture fillings and are partly oxidized to malachite, which is accompanied by limonite, possibly representing former specularite. The rock near the fault is bleached, probably by kaolinization of plagioclase, and contains veinlets of pink orthoclase and calcite.

Work History

In 1963, Valley Copper Mines completed a program of rock, silt and soil sampling, geological mapping, a ground magnetic survey, road building and bulldozer trenching on the area as the WDR claims. In 1969, Highland Valley Mines completed a program of geological mapping and an induced polarization survey on the area as the Ella claims. During 1971 through 1973, Dusty Mac Mines Ltd. completed programs of surface geological mapping, line cutting, an induced polarization survey and a ground magnetometer survey on the area immediately northwest as the Pod claims. In 1978, Bethlehem Copper completed a regional program of rock and soil sampling, geological mapping and a 101.0 line-kilometre induced polarization survey on the area as the TL and GC claims.

During 2014 through 2016, photogeological structural analysis programs were completed on the area as the Bertha and Toni claim groups.

In 2017, an airborne magnetic survey was completed by Peter E. Walcott & Associates Limited over the area as part of the Getty property. The survey was composed of 697 line-kilometres of heliborne magnetics over two grid areas.