The Sam (Discovery) is located 11 kilometres southwest of Spences Bridge, 4 kilometres east of Botanie The property can be accessed via the Botanie Lake Road, which is along Highway 12, approximately 1 kilometre northeast of its junction with the Trans-Canada Highway. An alternative access point may be gained via the Sleetis Creek Road, which is located approximately 9 kilometres from the start of Botanie Lake Road. The Sleetis Creek and Skoonka Forestry roads are linked via a 1.5 kilometre connecting road dubbed the “JJ Connector”, which was built in 2006 to allow easier access through the property and is where the JJ showing is situated.

Regionally, the northwest-southeast–trending Cretaceous Spences Bridge Group is part of the southern Intermontane tectonic belt of the Canadian Cordillera. The Spences Bridge Group volcanics are faulted against older plutonic and related metamorphic rocks of the Triassic-Jurassic Mount Lytton Complex. The dominant rock types within the area are subaerial andesite flows and tuffs, overlain by amygdule-rich basaltic flows. Minor felsic flows occur within these intermediate and mafic rocks, along with some sandstone, shale and conglomerate units. Stratigraphy is intruded by abundant Late Triassic and/or Jurassic to Miocene plutons. Metamorphic assemblages consist of Cache Creek Complex mélanges and Bridge River Complex metamorphic and ultramafic rocks. Quaternary sediments occur as thick drifts along the main rivers and some of the larger creeks. Major structural features in the region are steeply dipping normal faults, oriented subparallel to the western-bounding Fraser (River) fault system. The faults have two dominant trends: northwest-southeast and north-south (Assessment Report 34626). The Deadwood, Ember, Discovery and Backburn gold showings define a 3-kilometre-long corridor of low-grade gold mineralization (Assessment Report 34636).

Locally, the Spences Bridge Group is overlain by Tertiary mafic to felsic volcanics of the Kamloops and Princeton groups, which are in turn cut by small intrusions of intermediate composition. The Spences Bridge Group underlying the Skoonka Creek property is further divided into two assemblages, the Pimainus Formation and the Spius Creek Formation. Above the basal conglomerate, the Pimainus Formation is a predominantly volcaniclastic package comprising subaerial andesite ash, crystal, and lapilli tuffs (Assessment Report 29084). These flows are poorly sorted, weakly to non-bedded, and may contain up to 50 percent amygdules. Sandstone, shale, and conglomerate units can also be found alongside the andesite flows within the Pimainus Formation. The Spius Creek Formation overlies the Pimainus Formation and comprises amygdule-rich basaltic flows. Bedding is often apparent in the fine-grained tuff units throughout the property, oriented at a northwesterly strike and dipping between 0 and 40 degrees to both the northeast and southwest (Assessment Report 28182).

The Discovery showing is exposed in a single trench, 8 metres long and 4 metres wide, and consists of a multistage quartz stockwork system that strikes east-northeast and dips 075 degrees to the southeast (Assessment Reports 27672 and 29084). This large anomaly is spatially associated with a silicified and chloritized alteration zone within andesite flows, as well as a feldspar and hornblende-phyric porphyry dike. Hand trenching and the distribution of anomalous rock samples defined the Discovery vein zone to be an east-west mineral trend, 500 metres long, with a measured strike of 075 degrees at vein exposure (Assessment Report 27672). Fluid inclusion work on two samples from the Discovery showing has reported formation temperatures in the range of less than 200 to 210 degrees Celsius, indicating minimal erosion of the epithermal system at this site (Assessment Report 29084). Alteration haloes are typically less than 1 metre in width. Disseminated pyrite and specular hematite occur in the quartz matrix and hostrock clasts. Altered andesites are variably silicified, bleached with minor patchy argillic alteration, and show weak iron-manganese oxide alteration. Thin seams of clay gouge are also present, but are constrained along vein margins. The gouge material is composed of 1 to 5 centimetre wide, dark-grey to grey-brown clay with minor altered wall-rock fragments (Assessment Report 27672). The three holes drilled in 2006 extended the strike of quartz breccia mineralization to a depth of 110 metres (Assessment Report 29084). There are two styles of gold mineralization and alteration: (1) multi-stage massive, banded veins with associated breccia zones and intense proximal silica to distal argillic alteration and (2) narrow stockwork veinlets with disseminated pyrite and moderate silica, minor carbonate, limonite and clay alteration. The first style is well represented by the JJ and Discovery showings, while the second style of mineralization is more typical of the Deadwood, Ember, Backburn and Zebra showings (Assessment Report 34626). Hematite alteration is present, but likely not related to hydrothermal processes.

In 2003, chip/grab sampling of the angular quartz rubble suspended in overburden generated an average gold grade of 467 parts per billion over a width of roughly six metres (Samples AC-R17-R19) (Assessment Report 27672). In 2008, a zone of quartz breccia with clay-silica alteration assayed 0.36 grams per tonne gold over 11.33 metres (Drill hole SC06-024) (Assessment Report 29084). A composite chip/grab sample (SAM-R20) collected from rubble located 4.5 metres south of the vein zone in 2004 returned an analysis of 872.4 parts per billion gold (Assessment Report 27672). In 2005, six channel samples were cut across the mineralized zone and returned a weighted average gold value of 380 parts per billion with anomalous values of silver, arsenic and antimony (Assessment Report 27672).

In 2003, Almaden Minerals Ltd. conducted prospecting and reconnaissance geochemical sampling upstream of BC Regional Geochemical Survey (RGS) sample 815058, collecting 22 rock, 41 stream sediment and 14 soil samples. A trench was dug on the lower section of a road-cut bank slope at the Discovery Vein rubble site in 2003 (Assessment Report 27672). Follow-up work by Almaden in 2004 submitted a further 41 rock, 8 silt and 417 soil samples for geochemical analysis. A 2005 program was implemented by Strongbow Exploration Inc., consisting of reconnaissance silt sampling (29 samples) and prospecting (224 samples), followed by grid-based soil sampling over the Discovery and JJ showings and adjacent areas (3588 samples). Strongbow has done all work on the property since that time. Five ground magnetic surveys were completed in the northern half of the property between April 2 and September 24, 2006. The surveys contribute to a total of 33.7 line-kilometres and are set up over areas that contained the most anomalous gold in soil results and/or rock samples: JJ extension, Discovery, Deadwood, Ember and Backburn. In 2006, three of 21 drillholes (totalling 4403.29 metres) tested the Discovery showing (drillholes SC06-024 to 026). A total of 2353 drill core samples were collected for precious metal assay and ICP analysis, and 126 for whole rock geochemical analyses.

In 2013 and 2015, Strongbow completed programs of geological mapping, prospecting and geochemical (rock and soil sampling) on the Skoonka property.

In 2017 and 2018, Westhaven Ventures completed programs of geochemical (rock and soil) sampling, 2376 line-kilometres of airborne magnetic and radiometric surveys, 31.8 line-kilometres of ground magnetic surveys, a 6 line-kilometre passive seismic survey and 29 diamond drill holes, totalling 11 882 metres, on the area as part of the Spences Bridge Group (SBG) of properties.

In 2019, Westhaven completed a program of prospecting, geochemical (rock and soil) sampling, petrographic and Terraspec analysis on select 2018 drillcore samples, a LiDAR survey, 327 line-kilometres of ground magnetic surveys, a 20.3 line-kilometre DC resistivity survey and 49 diamond drillholes, totalling 21 849.3 metres, on the Spences Bridge Group (SBG) of properties.

In 2020, Westhaven completed a further program of geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling, various ground geophysical surveys and 102 diamond drill holes, totalling 43 268.7 metres, on the Spences Bridge Group (SBG) of properties.