The Standard property, on Standard Peak, is 41 kilometres north of Revelstoke in the Selkirk Mountains, northeast of the Columbia River. The property has been worked discontinuously since 1896 as a copper-silver-zinc-gold prospect.

Ultramafic pods lie in a metasedimentary phyllite unit, within the upper Index Formation of the lower Paleozoic Lardeau Group (Geological Survey of Canada Paper 83-1A). The pods, consisting of coarse-grained, brown weathering talc-chlorite-serpentine-dolomite, are repeated as part of the Standard anticline. The anticline consists of metamorphosed volcanics and sediments, crystalline limestone, pyritic graphitic schists, grey sericite schists and hornblende-feldspar-chlorite schists.

Massive sulphide mineralization, consisting of a series of layers and lenses of massive pyrrhotite and pyrite with minor chalco- pyrite and sphalerite, is most dominant within the greenstones on both sides of the Standard antiform. On the east limb, mineralization can be traced intermittently through a strike length of 1500 metres. Drill holes have intersected massive sulphide sections from 0.2 to 2 metres thick.

Talc occurs admixed with carbonate and serpentine, sometimes with chrome-mica veining, along broad zones of alteration in greenstone. In the No. 2 and No. 3 adits "pure", light green talc is reported to occur in shears in serpentine, along with a lesser amount of slip- fibre asbestos.

A grab sample of massive fine-grained pyrite and chalcopyrite assayed 1 gram per tonne gold, 29 grams per tonne silver, 0.84 per cent zinc and 9.98 per cent copper (Geology in British Columbia, 1976 p. 36).