The Aurous showing is located on the northeast slope of Mt. Connor, 13 kilometres southwest of Nelson. The Whitewater (082FSW222) deposit is just to the southwest. There is an adit and several trenches on the property that date from the turn of the century.

The area is underlain by andesitic and minor basaltic tuffs of the Lower Jurassic Elise Formation (units Je8 and Je8l), Rossland Group (Open File 1989-11). These have been intruded by granodiorite of the Middle to Late Jurassic Nelson Intrusions.

The andesite is silicified and propylitically altered as evidenced by pervasive epidotization. The altered andesite hosts quartz veins mineralized with disseminated pyrite and chalcopyrite. Disseminated magnetite occurs locally in the altered andesite adjacent to the veins.

Old records report assays of 3.43 to 130.26 grams per tonne gold, 102.84 to 685.6 grams per tonne silver and 5 to 22 per cent copper from these veins (Assessment Report 16161). Geochemical sampling in 1987 returned low values for these metals.

In 2011, Moose Mountain Technical Services, on the behalf of Rainbow Resources Inc., completed a program of prospecting and geochemical (rock and soil) sampling on the area immediately south as the Rhea-Sirush claims of the Big Strike property. A rock sample, taken just north of the property, in the Aurous area, assayed 1.6 per cent copper and 24.5 grams per tonne silver (Morris, R.J. (2012-03-27): Property of Merit Report– West Kootenay Properties – Big Strike Project).