Rhodonite is reported to occur as float and in place in the Ashnola River Valley near the confluence with Ewart Creek, about 26 kilometres south of Hedley. The location of this showing is uncertain.

Several rhodonite deposits (Soft, 092HSE187 and Pinky, 082ESW208), occur farther down the valley, hosted in the Ordovician to Triassic Apex Mountain Complex (formerly the Independence, Bradshaw, Old Tom and Shoemaker formations). A 500-metre wide band of metasediments and volcanics of this unit extends west-southwest across Ewart Creek, within 500 metres of the Ashnola River. This band is likely the source of the rhodonite.