The showing was discovered by Warner Gruenwald and Rob Shives in 2007 while carrying out exploration for Candorado Operating Company on the Friendly Lake Property (Assessment Report 29582). It is located in southern British Columbia about 29 kilometres northwest of Little Fort.

The Friendly Lake property lies in the Quesnel Terrane arc-supracrustal and plutonic rocks known to host important calc-alkaline and alkaline porphyry deposits.

A high resolution airborne geophysical survey was released in 2006 for the Bonaparte Lake area. This was analyzed by Rob Shives for thorium/potassium anomalies. During follow-up anomaly checking in June 2007, a small outcrop on the south side of a road cut of hornfelsed and brecciated Nicola Group volcanic rocks was inspected. The volcanic hosts a copper zinc occurrence with disseminated pyrite, magnetite, chalcopyrite and sphalerite. Rock sampling indicates 24.8 gram per tonne silver, 1.13 percent copper, and 2.31 percent zinc (Assessment Report 29582).

Exploration in 2012 for Electrum Resource Corporation included grid soil sampling (321 samples) which indicated anomalous gold-in-soil and silver-in-soil.