The Gold Queen showing is located about 3.0 kilometres east of the Salmo River and Porcupine Creek junction, 0.5 kilometres north of Porcupine Creek. The Crown Grant was located in 1896 and workings comprise a shaft, 2 open pits, and an adit.

The area is underlain by granite and granodiorite of the Late to Middle Jurassic Nelson Intrusions near the contact with Lower Jurassic Ymir Group sediments to the west and Lower Cambrian metasediments to the east. The sediments and metasediments comprise quartzite, schist, argillite, slate, siltstone, sandstone and conglomerate.

In 1980, samples were taken from an old shaft on the Gold Queen, Reverted Crown Grant (Lot 1075). The samples were collected from granitic rock containing quartz veins with associated muscovite and fracture fillings which host disseminated pyrite, galena and sphal- erite. One of these samples assayed 0.02 per cent lead, 0.02 per cent zinc, 1.71 grams per tonne silver and 0.137 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 9531). Other samples assayed 8.9 grams per tonne silver, 0.103 gram per tonne gold and 4.7 grams per tonne silver, 0.103 gram per tonne gold, respectively (Assessment Report 9531). Mineralization is also reported in the altered Ymir Group sediments within the igneous contact zone (refer to the Dewey (Lot 14431) occurrence 082FSW198).