The Hisnit-Quartz Vein occurrence is exposed in a creek bed of an un-named creek flowing into Allman Lagoon, Nootka Sound, approximately 36 kilometres west of the town of Gold River.

The area is underlain by metamorphic rocks of the Paleozoic to Jurassic West Coast Crystalline Complex. To the north, a northwest trending graben structure contains a northeast striking and northwest dipping stratigraphic succession of Triassic Quatsino limestone, Triassic Parson Bay Formation sediments and Jurassic Bonanza Formation volcanics. The graben structure and other rocks in the area are intruded and possibly underlain by granodiorite stocks and sills of both the Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite and the Eocene Mount Washington plutonic suite.

Locally, a white, buff, brown and green, glassy, brecciated and locally vuggy quartz-sericite-sulphide vein contains 0.15 per cent sulphides including tetrahedrite(?), sphalerite(?), molybdenite(?) and chalcopyrite.

From 2006 to 2008, D. Berkinshire completed programs of prospecting and rock geochemical sampling. From 2009 to 2011, Compliance Energy completed programs of geological mapping, geochemical surveys and airborne geophysical surveys. A rock sample (8852) from a 0.2 metre thick, low sulphidation, quartz vein assayed values of 0.272 gram per tonne gold, 27.3 grams per tonne silver, 3100 parts per million barium and 10.65 parts per million mercury (Assessment Report 31749).

In 2020 rock sampling and geological mapping in the area of Hisnit North and Hisnit South showings, approximately 1 kilometre east of Hisnit-Quartz Vein was conducted for Mirva Properties Ltd. on their Hisnit property. Besides anomalous results from resampling of the Hisnit North and Hisnit South showings, two samples of anomalous copper concentrations of 0.21 per cent Cu and 0.24 percent Cu (Hisnit West) were gathered from gossanous rocks on a new logging road.