The Knight Templar occurrence is located on Grouse Ridge, east of Malde Creek and approximately 1 kilometre north of the International Boundary.

Regionally, the area is underlain predominantly by leucocratic granite of the Middle Eocene Sheppard Intrusion that has intruded basaltic volcanic rocks and sediments of the Lower Jurassic Elise Formation (Rossland Group) and fine clastic sedimentary rocks of the Carboniferous to Permian Mount Roberts Formation, which are in contact with a large mass of conglomerate of the Cretaceous Sophie Mountain Formation to the north. The sedimentary rocks consist of argillite, siltstone and limestone. Part of this unit, a northwest-trending band of limestone (Unit Csl), is mapped roughly where the southern portion of the lapsed Knight Templar Crown grant was located (Open File 1991-2).

Locally, quartz veins hosting traces of pyrite and galena with gold values are reported near the margin of the leucocratic granite intrusive.

In the late 1800s, a large body of "low-grade" ore was reported to grade as high as 43 gram per tonne gold (Hodges, 1897).

By 1897, a 49-metre long adit from which a 20-metre deep winze extended had been developed. The winze was to be sunk to the 30-metre level, where drifts were to be run each way. Three other shafts are reported in the area of the adit.

In 1990, Antelope Resources Inc. completed a program of geological mapping on the area as the Kay 1-8 claims. In 2009, a 0.5 line-kilometre ground electromagnetic (VLF) survey was completed on the area.