A continuous stratified section of rhyolite and dacite tuffs trends northwesterly-southeasterly across the property. A pyritic rhyolite tuff horizon is well foliated, dips steeply to the south- west and has undergone low-grade metamorphism to a quartz-sericite- schist. Dacite tuffs, flows and plagioclase porphyries occur above and below the rhyolitic tuff horizon. The dacite has undergone mild to moderate chlorite and epidote alteration and local silicification. The Discovery Showing is a 10-metre wide horizon of interbedded massive sphalerite and pyrite within a cherty epidote-rich matrix in the footwall side of the rhyolite tuff. Small quartz-pyrite plus or minus chalcopyrite veins cut both the rhyolite and dacite tuffs.

Abacus Mineral Corporation explored the area in 1995. Eight base metal showings occur over a 3-kilometre east-west strike length. High gold values came from the Ridge and Star.

In 1998 Sand River Resources drilled the discovery but the results were inconclusive. There is little sign of footwall alteration and the showing may be vein or skarn related.

The Smaby 1-2 claims are held in good standing until April 10, 2005; and the Smaby 3-5 claims are held in good standing until February 4, 2005 by Hans Smit of Telkwa.