The SSS occurrence is located on the north side of Mitchener Creek at an elevation of approximately 1360 metres.

The area is underlain by an east-trending belt of greenstones, tuffs, limestones and argillaceous sediments of the Carboniferous to Permian Mount Roberts Formation that have been intruded by a Middle Jurassic porphyritic granite and syenitic to monzonitic rocks of the Eocene Coryell Plutonic Suite.

Locally, a former 15-metre long adit exposes a gneissic/metasedimentary contact hosting pyrite with minor chalcopyrite, galena and sphalerite mineralization associated with a skarn zone.

In 1989, a chip sample (RS-005) yielded 0.345 per cent lead and 0.259 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 19421).

The area has been explored since the early 1900s, with a former adit likely dating to this time.

During 1983 through 1986, Rex Silver Mines Ltd. conducted programs of rock and silt sampling, geological mapping and ground geophysical surveys on the area as the Joy 1-4 claims. During 1988 through 1990, Taff Resources Ltd. conducted programs of rock and soil sampling, geological mapping and a 23.6 line-kilometre ground electromagnetic (VLF) survey on the area as the Seal claims.

During 2003 through 2005, Kootenay Gold Inc. completed a program of geological mapping and prospecting on the area.