The SB 9 showing is located at the headwaters of Whitewater Creek, approximately 2 kilometres northwest of Whitewater Mountain. New Denver, British Columbia lies some 18 kilometres to the southwest.

The main lithologies of the area are assigned to the Permian Kaslo Group, consisting of andesite flows and pyroclastics (greenstone), and tuffaceous sediments. Volcanics are extensively chlorite altered and schistose. Sediments and volcanics have been locally intruded by diorite and feldspar porphyry dikes and sills. Serpentinite is the most extensive rock type exposed in this area, forming northwesterly trending bands with steep southwest dips and extending up to 750 metres in width. Talc and asbestos are common alteration minerals associated with this serpentinite unit. The contact between the serpentinite and surrounding lithologies is faulted. The surface trace of this fault can be traced for several kilometres. Underground this fault is marked by a heavy talc gouge. Late fractures in the area are healed with calcite and ankerite.

The showing lies along the contact between sheared and highly serpentinized peridotite and andesite and dacite of the Permian Kaslo Group. The showing consists of one of several quartz veins associated with felsic dikes and shearing along the serpentinite contact in the immediate area. Mineralization consists of minor pyrite, chalcopyrite and galena.

Property work conducted in the early 1970s is the only recorded exploration on this property. The nearby SB 78 showing (082KSW064) was examined by the same company for the nickel and copper potential of the serpentinite body.