The UA Shear Dam occurrence is located near a small creek, southwest of Mather Creek and approximately 2.2 kilometres southeast of McGinty Lake.

The area is underlain by mid-Proterozoic (Helikian) Aldridge Formation (Purcell Supergroup) quartzites, greywackes and argillites. These have been intruded by dioritic sills of the Proterozoic Moyie Intrusions.

Locally, a shear zone hosts quartz veins with chlorite, limonite and pyrite.

In 2003, two rock samples (MW08 and 09) assayed 2.16 and 1.54 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 27345).

In 2010, two rock samples (CK10-004 and 005) assayed 5.15 and 7.16 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 32126).

In 1968 and 1969, Imperial Oil completed a program of gravity, electromagnetic and magnetic surveys on the area as the Kim claims. In 2003, Sedex Mining and Super Group Holdings completed a program of rock and soil sampling, geological mapping and trenching and a 77.0 line-kilometre electromagnetic survey on the area as the MW claims. The following year, six diamond drill holes, totalling 452.3 metres, were completed. In 2010, Kootenay Gold completed a program of rock sampling and geological mapping on the area as the GCP claims. In 2012, Fjordland Exploration completed three diamond drill holes, totalling 592.8 metres, an 11.8 line-kilometre magnetic survey and a 118.0 line-kilometre induced polarization survey on the area.