The Lode Star occurrence is located on a south- south west –facing slope at an elevation of approximately 1530 metres and approximately 1.5 kilometres north east of the eastern end of Keefer Lake.

The area is underlain by mudstone, siltstone, shale, phyllite, marble, fine clastic sedimentary rocks and volcanic rocks of the Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Nicola Group and Devonian to Triassic Harper Ranch Group. These have been intruded by quartz diorite dikes of the Jurassic Nelson Intrusions and Cretaceous Whatshan Batholith.

Locally, a fractured feldspar porphyritic quartz diorite hosts quartz veins with pyrite, arsenopyrite and lesser chalcopyrite, tetrahedrite and galena mineralization. Alteration minerals include carbonate, chlorite, kaolinite and limonite. The veins generally trend to the north east and dip steeply east. Similar mineralization has been identified in two other zones located approximately 400 metres to the southeast and 200 metres to the northwest.

In 2015, a two rock samples (709 and 711) assayed up to 15.5 grams per tonne gold, 16.3 grams per tonne silver, 0.115 per cent copper and 0.109 per cent lead over 0.20 to 0.25 metre (Assessment Report 36024).

The following year a sample (754) assayed 6.01 grams per tonne gold and 12.2 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 36786). While sampling of similar mineralization the northwest (samples 20875 and 20876) and southeast (sample 20873) yielded up to 4.40 and 1.52 grams per tonne gold with 9.8 and 4.6 grams per tonne silver, respectively (Assessment Report 36786).

In 1982, the claims were staked as the Keefer claim and a geochemical soil survey was completed by John McGoran for F. Marehard. In 1983, Demus Petro Corp., through Burton Consulting, conducted a geochemical and heavy sediment sampling program. In 1984, soil and sediment sampling was completed for Demus Petro Corp. by Andreas Schildhorn. These programs identified anomalous gold in soil and silt on the Crystal claim. The area was restaked in 1985 as the Snow 1-4 claims and again in 1988 as the Snow I-III claims. In 1988, Ocean Crystal Resources conducted geological mapping, soil geochemistry and lithogeochemistry on the Snow claims. During 2003 through 2005, Columbia Yukon Explorations completed programs of rock and soil sampling, geological mapping and trenching on the area as the Barnes claims. In 2015 and 2016, programs of geochemical sampling and geological mapping were completed on the area as the Lode Star property.