The Handy occurrence is located west of the Lardeau River between Mobbs and Tenderfoot creeks in the Slocan Mining Division. The property consists of four Crown grants (Lots 1367, 1368, 1369 and 1371).

Regionally, the area lies within the Selkirk Mountains of southeastern British Columbia. The occurrence is within the Kootenay Arc, a curving belt of highly deformed metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks which includes the Upper Proterozoic Horsethief Creek Group, the Upper Proterozoic to Lower Cambrian Hamill Group, the Lower Cambrian Badshot Formation, and the Paleozoic Lardeau and Milford groups. The volcano-sedimentary sequence is intruded by numerous Paleozoic to Mesozoic granitoid plutons.

The Lardeau River area of the Selkirk Mountains is mainly underlain by massive pillow lavas, volcanic breccia and green phyllitic rocks of the Index Formation and by grey-green mica schist of the Broadview Formation. Grey phyllitic rocks and marble of the Milford Group are exposed near the edges of the Mesozoic Mobbs Creek, Rapid Creek and Poplar Creek stocks. All rocks have undergone regional metamorphism to middle or upper greenschist facies. Rocks of the Milford Group have also been affected by thermal metamorphism (Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 193).

Although the records indicate that the occurrence has been worked extensively in the early 1900s, no geological description could be located for this occurrence. The property is described as a 120 centimetre wide quartz vein carrying gold, silver and copper values (Geological Survey of Canada Summary Report 1903). At least 55 metres of drifting has been carried out on the property from a 15 metre deep shaft. Rocks on Crown grant Lot 1369 are grey phyllite of the Index Formation of the Lardeau Group and Mesozoic metadiorite sills (GSC Map 1277A).