The Hatch occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 840 metres on a steep south-southwest–facing slope of Mount Connaught and north of the Salmon River.

Regionally, the area is underlain by basaltic volcanics, mudstone, siltstone, shale and fine clastic sedimentary rocks of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group, which are in fault contact to the north with greenstone metamorphic rocks and sediments of the Lower Paleozoic Mount Ida Assemblage. To the south, the Nicola Group rocks are in probable unconformable contact with Devonian to Triassic sedimentary and volcanic rocks of the Harper Ranch Group. Cretaceous granodiorite plugs intrude the Nicola Group and Mount Ida Assemblage rocks. Outliers of volcanic rocks of the Eocene Kamloops and Penticton groups locally overlie the older units.

Locally, a 10 to 12-metre long former adit or tunnel exposes a stockwork zone of quartz veins and/or veinlets in altered sedimentary rocks associated with an andesite dike and silicified intrusive hosting disseminated sulphides. Sulphide minerals include pyrite, chalcopyrite, bornite and magnetite. The zone is silicified, heavily oxidized and hematite-limonite–altered. Gossanous zones associated with a carbonatized meta-quartzite and green (chloritized?) andesite hosting pyrite are also reported in the area.

In 2007, two samples (30N30W and 230604) from the area are reported to have assayed 0.28 and 0.13 gram per tonne gold with trace and 2370 grams per tonne silver, respectively (Assessment Report 29215).

In 2011, rock samples from the area yielded up to 0.588 gram per tonne gold (Sample EMA62-10-36; Assessment Report 32405).

During 2005 through 2016, E.R. Hatch, later Hatch Exploration, completed programs of prospecting, geochemical sampling, ground electromagnetic surveys and minor trenching on the area as the Sweetsbridge and later the Kelly-Connaught properties.