The McKee occurrence is located approximately 250 metres east of McKee Lake and approximately 1.3 kilometres northeast of the northern end of Elbow Lake.
Regionally, the area lies in the central Quesnel Belt underlain by marine sedimentary rocks and basaltic to andesitic volcanics rocks of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group. To the east, metasedimentary rocks of the Proterozoic-Paleozoic Snowshoe Group (Kootenay terrane), greenschist metamorphic rocks of the Carboniferous to Permian Crooked amphibolite (Slide Mountain terrane) and fine clastic sedimentary rocks of the Middle to Upper Triassic Slocan Group (Quesnel terrane) are exposed.
Locally, the area is underlain by foliated green andesitic tuffs, typical of the lower part of the Nicola stratigraphy in the region, that have been weakly pyrite and carbonate altered. A shaft has been dug at 117 degrees on a shear zone containing mineralized quartz veins. A series of quartz veins outcrop on the south-facing side of a hill next to a broad shear zone on its western flank. One small quartz vein, 0.8 to 1 metre wide, pinches and swells within the highly sheared andesite tuff. Just a few metres east, a large quartz vein is exposed on the north side of the shaft and carries calcite, pyrite and chalcopyrite as readily visible sulphides. A third quartz vein occurs 5 metres to the east of the preceding one and is 0.5 to 1 metre wide. The walls of the quartz veins contain heavy sericite and pyrite. Minor amounts of pyrite, malachite and chalcopyrite are present near the shaft in quartz vein and hostrock rubble. Free gold has also been reported.
A trench, exposing another quartz vein, is reported approximately 3 kilometres to the east-southeast on the other side of a small knoll. No further information is reported.
To the southwest, near the bridge over Bassett Creek, malachite-stained laminated tuffs host small horizons of massive to semi-massive pyrite and chalcopyrite mineralization.
The presence of quartz veining and sericitic alteration is atypical of mineralization within Nicola Group andesites-basalts. This suggests that felsic intrusive rocks related to the nearby Takomkane Batholith may be present.
In 1934, a sample (assumed to be a chip sample) across 3.58 metres of a quartz vein assayed 10.28 grams per tonne gold (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1934, page C32).
In 1989, a sample of rubble from below the shaft assayed 0.48 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 18867).
The 1934 Minister of Mines Annual Report states that "the discovery was made in 1934 by Gusto Hoehne and Chas. Goetjen...of a large vein showing free gold and a tendency to widen at depth." A group by the name of Gold Coin Syndicate of Vancouver sunk a shaft to a depth of 15 metres around this time.
In 1981 and 1982, E & B Explorations Inc. completed programs of rock, silt and soil sampling on the area. In 1983, Mt. Calvery Resources Ltd. soil sampled the area as the CG 1-9 claims. Also, at this time E & B Explorations conducted a program of rock, silt and soil sampling on the area immediately south and west as the Bassett Creek 1-3 claims. In 1987 and 1988, programs of soil and rock sampling, geological mapping and ground geophysical surveys were completed on the area immediately east as the Elbow 1-2 and Bluto 1-3 claims. In 1989, the area was prospected as the CG 1-4 claims.
During 2008 through 2012, Bullion Gold Corp. completed programs of soil sampling, a 45.5 line-kilometre induced polarization survey and 1874.0 line-kilometres of airborne geophysical surveying on the area as part of the Cariboo Goldfields and Horsefly properties.
