The property is located at the northwestern end of Burnaby Island. The original discovery lies in the bottom of the westernmost north-flowing creek, about 183 metres from the shore.

The showing was apparently discovered by a Nick Johnson, who staked 2 claims. Silver Standard Mines Limited and Jedway Iron Ore Limited, a subsidiary of The Granby Mining Company Limited, optioned the 2 claims and staked an additional 138 claims. Joint exploration of the property was carried on from January 3rd to June 5th, 1963, and included geological mapping, magnetometer, electromagnetic, and geochemical soil surveys, trenching, and 565 metres of packsack diamond drilling in 30 holes. The diamond drilling showed the original discovery was confined to a small pocket. The geophysical work located other bodies of similar mineralization, none of which were considered to be large enough to warrant further work.

The area is underlain by limestones and argillites of the Jurassic to Triassic Kunga Group. These are intruded by small heterogeneous diorite stocks and later gabbro dikes and plugs related to the Middle to Late Jurassic Burnaby Island Plutonic Suite. The rocks are cut by north-northwest faults related to the Louscoone Inlet-Rennell Sound fault zone.

An outcrop, about 5.5 metres in diameter, consists of gabbro mineralized with pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite and bravoite with minor nickeliferous minerals. The occurrence contains about 1 per cent nickel and 1 per cent copper (Bulletin 54, page 216). The mineralized gabbro body is very localized, however, another mineralized outcrop was located several metres to the south.