The Kew occurrnce is located east of Kewquodie Creek, approximately 2.7 kilometres south of its mouth.

The area lies within the Insular Belt of the Cordillera and is underlain mainly by volcanics, crystalline rocks and minor sediments. Andesitic to rhyodacitic lava, tuff and breccia of the Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group overlie an assemblage consisting of Paleozoic Sicker Group sediments and Upper Triassic Vancouver Group basalts and minor carbonate and clastic sediments.

The Bonanza volcanics are coeval with, or genetically related to, granodiorite stocks of the Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite which intrude all older rocks.

D.G. Leighton (1974) reports disseminated chalcopyrite and bornite mineralization in basic dikes intruding Bonanza Group tuff breccia, 1 kilometre north of a granitic intrusion.

Work History

In 1969 and 1970, Skaist Mines completed programs of geological mapping, geochemical sampling and geophysical surveys. During 2001 through 2006, the area was explored by S. Laurence and E. McCrossan as part of the Q claims. Programs of prospecting, geological mapping and geochemical sampling were completed at this time. In 2014, Eden Venture Investments completed a minor program of prospecting and geochemical (rock and silt) sampling on the area as the Copper 1-4 claims of the Klootchlimmis Creek property.