The NLS 1-8 occurrence is located on the north side Kinman Creek at an elevation of 345 metres, approximately 3.5 kilometres east-southeast of the creek mouth on Nimpkish Lake.

North striking carbonates and calcareous sediments of the Quatsino and Parson Bay formations overlie Karmutsen Formation tholeiitic basalts, all of the Upper Triassic Vancouver Group. Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group andesitic to rhyodacitic lava, tuff, breccia and minor sediments are coeval with, or genetically related to, granodiorite of the Nimpkish batholith of the Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite. Strong, regional north to northwest trending faults, often defining intrusive and lithological contacts, traverse the area.

Locally, a shear hosted lens of massive sphalerite, galena and chalcopyrite is hosted by a cherty quartzite and felsic intrusives. Minor minerals include tetrahedrite, covellite and pyrite. In 1989, grab sampling (NLS 1 through 8) of the zone assayed up to 61 grams per tonne silver, 3.51 per cent copper, 9.74 per cent zinc, 4.34 per cent lead and greater than 0.01 per cent cadmium (Assessment Report 20092).

During 1989 through 2006, J.W. Laird completed programs of rock sampling and geological mapping on the area as the Nimpkish and CBL 1-10 claims.