The Whitewater workings are located 16 kilometres southwest of Nelson near the head of Snowwater Creek. Gold-bearing veins were discovered along the creek in the late 1800's. Minor production came from short adits between 1890 and 1930.

The area is underlain by granodiorite and quartz monzonite of the Middle to Late Jurassic Nelson Intrusions (Bonnington pluton) in contact to the north with andesite tuffs, basaltic tuffs, lapilli tuffs and crystal tuffs of the Lower Jurassic Elise Formation, Rossland Group. Lamprophyre dykes intrude the volcanic rocks. Biotite and pyrite alteration and isolated lenses of hornfelsed volcanics containing epidote-chlorite-garnet alteration are present near the contact.

Mineralized quartz veins, mainly in granitic rocks, contain pyrite, minor galena, sphalerite and molybdenite. Significant gold values are associated with pyrite. Molybdenite also occurs as isolated blebs in pegmatite veins. The veins are generally less than 0.5 metre wide. It is suspected that some of the quartz veins are localized by shears.

The discontinuous Whitewater vein is up to about 1.8 metres wide at the contact and is hosted in fractured country rock. The quartz is mineralized with pyrite but the gold values are erratic. The vein strikes 40 degrees and dips 60 degrees south. A drill hole sample in 1970 assayed 8.9 grams per tonne gold over 0.67 metre (Property File - Snowwater Resources Ltd., Prospectus, July 1988).

To the east of the Whitewater workings, drilling has been undertaken on the Breccia zone. The best intersection was across 1 metre and assayed 1.54 grams per tonne gold and 1.0 gram per tonne silver (Assessment Report 19900).

High grade float boulders of quartz mineralized with pyrite, occasional free gold and sporadic, minor sphalerite and galena have been traced along Whitewater Creek through the Columbia and Snowwater Crown Grants. The boulders appear to be related in part to schistose volcanics from south of the known vein exposures.

The Whitewater property has seen little exploration other than the building of an access road and trenching.

Whitewater consists of 138 hectares and is contiguous to claims acquired in late 2011 by Rainbow Resources Inc. that enlarged the Rhea property. Rainbow conducted some initial prospecting at Whitewater over the summer of 2012. Two grab samples from a trench exposing numerous quartz veins in a mafic hostrock (diorite) returned 64.1 grams per tonne gold and 26.9 grams per tonne gold. The samples were taken from different veins 30 metres apart (V STOCKWATCH, October 19, 2012).