The Bon Ton occurrence is situated on the eastern slopes of the north-trending ridge separating Stenson (Jackson) Creek from McGuigan Creek. Kaslo, British Columbia lies roughly 26 kilometres to the east-southeast.

The showing was first staked on the Bon Ton claim in 1892. A small shipment of ore is reported for 1893. Small shipments of high-grade ore are also reported for 1915 to 1919 with records for 1917 to 1919. Recorded production from the later three years was 12 tonnes with 86,000 grams silver and 2675 kilograms lead recovered. Average grades were 7303 grams per tonne silver and 28 per cent lead. Workings consisted of four short adits and a 12-metre shaft. Little work has been done since 1919. In 1995, Touchstone Resources Ltd. conducted rock and soil geochemical sampling on the occurrance as apart of their Ridge and Alpine claim groups.

Hostrocks of the Bon Ton occurrence are mainly argillites of the Triassic Slocan Group, striking 125 degrees and dipping 50 degrees southwest. Argillites are intruded by quartz porphyry dikes and a basic dike with a green mica, possibly mariposite.

The workings intersected a fissure-vein lode, consisting of quartz with galena and tetrahedrite. The lode has a strike of 055 degrees and a dip of 50 degrees southeast.

In 1995, a sample of brecciated quartz, from an adit dump, returned 70 parts per million silver, 2970 parts per million lead and 550 parts per million zinc (Assessment Report 24095).