The Native Son showing is located just south of Leckie Creek along northeast facing slopes of the Leckie Range north of Downton Lake. Upper Cretaceous Kingsvale Group sedimentary rocks consisting of argillaceous and feldspathic quartzite, greywacke, shale and minor conglomerate underlie most of the property. The northwesterly striking Tchaikazan fault bisects the property, placing sedimentary rocks in contact with quartz diorite to granodiorite of the Jurassic to Tertiary Coast Plutonic Complex on the southwest.

Gold mineralization occurs as fracture controlled replacement bodies of massive to disseminated arsenopyrite and pyrite with chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite, in both sedimentary rocks and quartz diorite. Pyrite-arsenopyrite-galena-sphalerite mineralization is also present in quartz-calcite stockworks and in breccia in highly altered quartz diorite and sedimentary rocks. Alteration of these zones consists of sericite, clay, ankerite and mariposite. Precious metals have not been detected in association with this style of mineralization.

A 1.2-metre sample of massive arsenopyrite with minor chalcopyrite taken from a trench during 1988 was found to contain 11.14 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 17920).