The CQM showing is located adjacent to Highway 6, approximately 21.5 kilometres south from the town of Nakusp, at the south end of Upper Arrow Lake. The CQM showing encompasses a talus slope at the base of Scalping Knife Mountain.

The talus slope has previously been mined by the British Columbia Ministry of Transportation and Highways as a source of decorative stones for gardens, for retaining walls, and as road ballast. In 2014 and 2015 RIT Minerals acquired the mineral tenure to assess the property for dimension stone and building stone potential.

The CQM property is underlain by a homoclinal, north-dipping succession of Lower Devonian calcareous quartzite of the Chase Formation, which passes upward and northward into Middle and Upper Paleozoic quartzite interlayered with micaceous schist, amphibolitic schist, and amphibolite of the Silver Creek Formation (Assessment Report 35673).

The distinctive coarse crystalline calcareous quartzite of the CQM showing has colours, textures, and patterns that lend themselves to applications as building stone, dimension stone, as cladding (veneer), as feature stones, and dry-stacked retaining walls and partitions. The calcareous quartzite is composed of quartz-rich and quartz-poor layers in a matrix of marble. Minerals such as diopside (green) and siderite (ochre) may also be present. Rock blocks vary in colour from orange-brown, light-grey, greenish grey, and turquoise.

The talus deposit at CQM is roughly triangular in cross-section with an elevation gain of approximately 60 metres from the toe of the deposit, and 180 metres south to the back of the deposit. A mineable strike length of 360 metres provides a conservative estimate of available material (Assessment Report 35673).

The talus slope is composed of blocks ranging from 0.5 to 10s of metres in diameter. Blocks occur as roughly rectangular pieces, with some larger pieces forming irregular shapes. The majority of blocks at the CQM showing range between 0.5 to 1.5 metres in diameter. The blocks prefer to break along layering; however this is not a particularly weak surface. Closely spaced, preferred joint or fracture surfaces are absent from most blocks (Assessment Report 35673).