The Revelstoke (Empire) prospect is in an alpine basin at the head of Stevens (Cariboo) Creek, which drains to the northeast into the Duncan River. It is on one of a group of five, linear, northwest trending, lapsed crown granted mineral claims southeast of Redcliff Peak. It is on strike with the Silver Chief [082KNW039] at about 2100 metres elevation. The tenures are, from northwest to southeast, the Crested Butte (L.4481), Allouez (L.4480), Pewabic Fraction (L.4479), Pewabic (L.4478), Negaunee (L.4477) and Revelstoke (L.4476).

The claims were explored by Empire Mines of British Columbia in the late 1890s and 23 metres of development work had been done on the vein by 1898. The company crown-granted the claims in 1901, but were regranted to Alice Maud Mollieres, in 1926. Silver State Resources explored a large area south of Redcliff Peak, including the showings, in 1985. The Trout Lake area is underlain by a thick succession of sedimentary and volcanic rocks of the Badshot Formation and Lardeau Group near the northern end of the Kootenay arc, an arcuate, north to northwest trending belt of Paleozoic and Mesozoic strata that is now classified as a distinct, pericratonic, terrane. The arc rocks are bordered by Precambrian quartzite in the east and they young to the west, where they are bounded by Jurassic-age intrusive complexes. They were deformed during the Antler orogeny in Devonian-Mississippian time and were refolded and faulted during the Columbian orogeny, in the Middle Jurassic. A large panel, the "Selkirk allochthon", was later offset to the northeast by dip-slip motion along the Columbia River Fault.

The Badshot Formation is composed of a thick Cambrian limestone that is a distinctive marker horizon in the Trout Lake area. It is underlain by Hamill Group quartzite and it is overlain by a younger assemblage of limestone, calcareous, graphitic and siliceous argillite and siltstone, sandstone, quartzite and conglomerate, and also mafic volcanic flows, tuffs and breccias, all of which belong to the Lardeau Group. The rocks are isoclinally folded and intensely deformed, but only weakly metamorphosed. They occur as intercalated beds of marble, quartzite and grey, green and black phyllite and schist. Fyles and Eastwood (EMPR BULL 45) subdivided the group into six formations (Index, Triune, Ajax, Sharon Creek, Jowett and Broadview) of which the lowermost (Index) and uppermost (Broadview) are the most widespread. The Triune (siliceous argillite), Ajax (quartzite) and Sharon Creek (siliceous argillite) are restricted to the Trout Lake area. The Jowett is a mafic volcanic unit.

The Revelstoke area is in a similar stratigraphic and structural setting to the White Quail [082KNW037], Hidden Treasure [082KNW106], Index [082KNW038] and Silver Chief [082KNW039] prospects; however, there are significant differences brought about by facies changes to the south of Redcliff Peak. The Triune Formation is cut out and the Ajax and Sharon Creek Formations are much reduced in thickness, and the Jowett Formation extends into the head of the drainage. The tenures are underlain by grey carbonate and green phyllite and tuff of the Index Formation. The rocks are isoclinally folded and highly deformed. They display an axial plane schistocity that dips steeply to the southwest.

The main vein is a minimum of 1.22 metres wide and thickens to 2.1 metres on the Allouez claim. It is located on a contact between limestone and schist and is well exposed on surface. In 1985, the area was described as having two types of mineralization: stratabound massive sulphide (galena, pyrite) lenses occurring as irregular pods in a siderite-quartz-chlorite unit along a contact between limestone and chlorite schist, and pyritic bands within black graphitic shales in, and immediately overlying, volcanic rocks of the Jowett Formation. The stratabound mineralization was traced intermittently, by means of small trenches for a strike length of approximately 1000 metres. A channel sample of the best observed mineralization assayed 17.65 per cent lead, 0.04 per cent zinc and 158.7 grams per tonne silver across 1.0 metre (EMPR Ass RPT 13936). The pyritic rock was not specifically sampled, although the report suggests that it might reflect a volcanogenic massive sulphide environment.

During 2006 through 2009, Mineral Mountain Resources Ltd. completed programs of prospecting, geochemical (soil, silt, talus fines and rock) sampling and an airborne geophysical survey on the area as the Kootenay Arc property.