The showing is located on South Murphy Creek, approximately 12 kilometres northwest of Trail.

Regionally, the area is underlain by a sequence of Pennsylvanian to Permian Mount Roberts Formation meta-sediments intruded by the Jurassic Mackie pluton to the north and Trail pluton to the southeast with the Eocene Coryell Batholith to the west.

Mineralization consists primarily of massive arsenopyrite and pyrrhotite, with rare chalcopyrite, galena, and sphalerite within zones up to 15 centimetres in width.

The Smurph claims are a part of the Murphy Creek Project of Kootenay Gold Inc. Exploration, which, since 2003, has focused on an area containing a number of old workings occurring roughly on two parallel northwest trends. These workings were targeting sulphide and gold-bearing structures hosted by metasediments.

In 2005, prospecting on the property lead to the collection of five rock samples. These returned values ranging from 5 grams per tonne gold to a high of 41 grams per tonne (Assessment Rerport 27909).

In 2006, rock sample SMR13 returned 464 parts per billion gold and 490 parts per million arsenic (Assessment Report 29327).

In 2007, seven diamond drill holes, totalling 812 metres, were completed. No grades are known, at this time, but one hole intersected 0.7 metres of fracture-controlled pyrrhotite with lesser pyrite and trace chalcopyrite, occurring within a monzodiorite unit. Here, 5 to 7 per cent pyrrhotite occurs as massive replacements (Assessment Report 29636).