The Germansen River occurrence is located on Germansen River approximately 10 kilometres from its mouth.

This occurrence is hosted within a fault-bounded slice of the Pennsylvanian-Permian Manson Lakes Ultramafites. The ultramafics are altered and are predominantly serpentinite. This fault-bounded ultramafic package is found within the northwest striking, right- lateral Manson fault zone of probable Late Cretaceous to Tertiary age. To the immediate southwest, across a fault boundary, lies sediments of the Middle to Upper Triassic Slate Creek Formation (Takla Group). To the north of this ultramafic package, lies fault- bounded rocks of North American affinity; the Mississippian to Permian Cooper Ridge Group and the Upper(?) Devonian to Mississippian Big Creek Group.

This occurrence was originally described in Geological Survey of Canada Paper 45-9 as a low-grade chrysotile asbestos showing. The chrysotile occurs as thin discontinuous veinlets running through the serpentinite. Two grab samples near this location yielded 0.25 per cent nickel (Open File 1989-12, samples FFE88-10-9-1 and DME88-2-1).