The Cruiser occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 1670 metres on a west-trending ridge east of Cruiser Lake.
Regionally, the area is underlain by metasedimentary rocks of the Proterozoic-Paleozoic Snowshoe Group (Kootenay terrane), greenschist metamorphic rocks of the Carboniferous to Permian Crooked amphibolite (Slide Mountain terrane) and fine clastic sedimentary rocks of the Middle to Upper Triassic Slocan Group (Quesnel terrane). To the west, marine sedimentary rocks and basaltic to andesitic volcanics rocks of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group are exposed.
Locally, quartz veins containing minor pyrite and galena mineralization are hosted by phyllites and siltstones of the Slocan Group and to a lesser extent the Crooked amphibolite. Veins within the Crooked amphibolite and the eastern part of the phyllite unit are typically parallel to the strong southwest-dipping foliation in the hostrocks. In the western part of the phyllite unit, however, veins commonly strike northeast to east-northeast, dip steeply to the southeast or northwest, and are hosted in grey-green, rusty weathered alteration zones consisting of quartz, ankerite, sericite, mariposite and pyrite (EMPR Fieldwork 2006, p. 179-202).
In 1989, 13 samples from veins and alteration zones yielded from 1.1 to 14.0 grams per tonne silver and trace to 2.66 per cent lead (Assessment Report 19160, page 9).
In 2006, three vein samples collected by the BC Geological Survey did not yield significant base or precious metal values, but one sample from altered wallrock returned anomalous concentrations of lead, zinc, silver, nickel, cobalt, arsenic and antimony (EMPR Fieldwork 2006, p. 179-202).
In 1989, the area was prospected and sampled (rock and soil) by Gibraltar Mines Ltd. as the Cruiser claims. During 2010 through 2012, Bullion Gold Corp. completed programs of soil sampling, a 45.5 line-kilometre induced polarization survey and 1874.0 line-kilometres of airborne geophysical surveying on the area immediately west as the Cariboo Goldfields and Horsefly properties.
