The property is located near the U.S. border, 4 kilometres southeast of Grand Forks. It was acquired in 1942 by the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada, Limited, as a source of silica for use as a flux in the smelting operations at Trail. Production between 1943 and 1947, totalled 73,163 tonnes of silica.

A vein or pegmatitic mass of quartz, running as high as 96 per cent silica, with 0.14 per cent iron, occurs within Proterozoic Grand Forks Gneiss.