In June 1959, A.C. Skerl examined several copper showings under the guidance of Messrs. J.E. Rickard and A. Jenner of Lillooet. In January 1960, Askom Mines Ltd. optioned a group of 24 claims known as the Askom group, from A. Jenner and J.E. Rickard. It was reported that there are four or five outcrops with indications of copper mineralization over a distance of approximately 1.6 kilometres. Work in this year consisted chiefly of trenching and sampling on the main showings. Subsequently the property was acquired by Dalex Mines Ltd. and further work in 1966 consisted of 396 metres of bulldozer trenching and construction of 365 metres of road. In 1967, Dalex continued with an induced polarization survey, about 1524 metres of bulldozer trenching, 297 square metres of stripping, drilling and blasting 16 square metres of trenches, construction of about 3.2 kilometres of access road and drilling eight percussion-drill holes totalling 355 metres. Although some good assays, notably in copper with silver, were obtained from surface work the results from the drilling have been disappointing. From 1968 to 1970, an induced polarization survey, two bulldozer trenches totalling 62 metres, 1.6 kilometres of road and a geochemical survey were completed. The property comprised Rickhill (showing #1), Cherry 2, 092INW024 (showing #2), Mud, 092INW025 (showing #3), Rusty, 092INW021 (showing #4), Sharon, 092INW026 (showing #5) and Cherry 7, 092INW023 (showing #6). The first four showings are located from a report by A.C. Skerl and the last two are from Assessment Report 2530.

Mineralization at the showings consists of small stringers and disseminations of chalcopyrite, largely weathered to malachite and limonite, hosted in what has been referred to as 'a siliceous metamorphic rock' and quartz diorite. This siliceous rock is inferred to be quartzose phyllite and/or siliceous chlorite schist of the Permian-Jurassic Bridge River Complex. Minor stains of malachite at surface give way to chalcopyrite within a metre of depth. The showings are near the north-northwest trending Marshall Creek and Lillooet faults where the Jurassic-Cretaceous Relay Mountain Group and Bridge River Complex occur.

At showing #1 (Rickhill), a series of six samples from a northerly aligned upper cut containing considerable malachite and chalcopyrite yielded an average of 0.95 per cent copper over a 12.9 metre length (Skerl, 1959).