The October East showing is located south west of the Quesnel River, approximately 8 kilometres to the northwest of the village of Likely. The area is accessible via forestry and logging roads from the main Williams Lake - Likely highway, but within the claim group most parts can only be reached by foot.
Three main stratigraphic units underlie the claim: siltstone and sandstone, basaltic breccia and polymictic felsic breccia of the Upper Triassic-Lower Jurassic Nicola Group. Thin hornblende monzonite dikes have been recognized as cutting the Upper Triassic strata. An elongate, Early Jurassic, pyritic monzonite intrusion that strikes to the northwest has been emplaced within the lowermost sedimentary strata and basaltic breccia. Weak to moderate propylitic hydrothermal alteration has affected basaltic rocks. The dominant assemblage is epidote-calcite-magnetite-chlorite. Felsic breccia contain potassically altered clasts of syenite or monzonite, some with disseminated pyrite, but this alteration assemblage is thought to have occurred at the source of brecciation and not where these rocks were deposited.
The monzonite intrusion within the claim group contains disseminated pyrite and as fracture fillings where the rock is propylitically altered. A sample of this rock (OCT-9) containing anomalous copper (0.14 per cent) and gold (0.08 gram per tonne) also exhibits potassic alteration in that all mafic minerals probably hornblende had been replaced by secondary biotite (Assessment Report 27999).
During 1975 through 1978, Canadian American Loan and Investment Corporation covered the area with its Lock claims and carried out magnetic and electromagnetic surveys, soil sampling and geological mapping over the area. In 1982, Kenton Natural Resources completed a program of geochemical sampling on the area. In 1998, the property was included in a regional soil geochemical survey for Big Valley Resources. During 2005 through 2007, Valley High Ventures completed programs geological mapping, rock sampling and 30 line-kilometres of ground magnetic and induced polarization surveys on the area as the October claims. During 2009 through 2014, Bearing Resources and Glengarry Developments completed programs of soil and rock sampling, geological mapping, 10 diamond drill holes, totalling 2087.7 metres, and ground induced polarization and magnetometer surveys on the area as the October Dome property.
