The property is located on the south side of St. Mary River some 40 kilometres west-northwest of Kimberley. Four claims, the Surprise, Welcome, Enterprise and Shrewsbury extend southerly from the river up the northeast slope of Hungry Peak between elevations of 1,160 and 1,980 metres.

The Welcome & Enterprise showings occur in quartz-carbonate lenses containing chalcopyrite, pyrite and locally galena. The hostrocks are reported to be sheared limy argillites of the Middle Proterozoic Creston Formation, Purcell Supergroup.

The Enterprise claim (Lot 3559) was Crown-granted to H. McCool and Wm. Millican and the Welcome claim (Lot 1389) to Geo. Urquhart in 1900. The Surprise claim (Lot 3560) was Crown- granted in 1901 to Arthur Phillips and the Shrewsbury (Lot 5584) to H.R. Thomson and associates in 1902. Development work to about 1904 was done in open cuts and 3 adits. A 0.36-tonne sample of galena mineralization was packed out to the Marysville smelter in 1904.

Newmont Mining Corporation of Canada Limited held the property in 1961 as part of an optioned group of 88 claims. Work included stripping, geological mapping, and 485 metres of diamond drilling in 5 holes.

The Surprise Crown-grant, held as a mineral lease by D.C. Jackson, was under option to Meridian Resources Ltd. during 1977-78. The company also held a lease on the Welcome Crown-grant.