The Free Gold showing is located near the head waters of McPhee Creek, roughly 11.5 kilometres east of Castlegar. The showing was discovered in 2009 by Swift Resources Inc. as a part of its Amazing Grace project. Previous work in the area has been centered on the Maud S. and Meister (MINFILE 082FSW325) showing to the south.

Regionally, the area is underlain by granite and granodiorite of the Late to Middle Jurassic Nelson Intrusions and small areas of volcanic rocks of the Lower Jurassic Elise Formation (Rossland Group).

Locally, the property covers a portion of the multi-phase Bonnington pluton, which has intruded sedimentary, volcanic and subvolcanic rocks of the Jurassic Rossland Group. These older rocks occur as embayments, pendants, and possible fault slices within the pluton, and are typically metamorphosed with relic textures preserved only locally. An east- to southeast- trending pendant of mafic volcanics and subvolcanic intrusive, belonging to the Rossland Group (Elise Formation), occurs in the central part of the property.

The most prominent structural feature on the property are late-stage (Eocene) faults. Large zones of intense alteration (sericitic, argillic, carbonate, silica) occur along northwest trending normal faults, with gold-bearing quartz veins along and in the hangingwall of these structures.

In 2010, rock sampling of a narrow quartz vein with visible gold, known as the Free Gold vein, returned values up to 18.13 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 31929).