The Gateway property overlooks Beaverdell Creek on the north slopes of Kloof Ridge, between 1150 and 1250 metres elevation and 10.5 kilometres northeast of Beaverdell. Access to the property is from a dirt side road that joins the main Beaverdell Creek road at a point approximately 1 kilometre east of Larsen Creek.

The area is mainly underlain by metavolcanic, metasedimentary and marble of the late Paleozoic Wallace Formation (Anarchist Group). It is intruded by middle Jurassic granodiorite, and a number of generally north-trending Eocene porphyry dikes.

The mineral occurrences on the Gateway, Moonlight and Golden Dawn claims are mostly pyrite- and chalcopyrite bearing quartz veins frequently associated with white porphyry dikes. The sulphides on the Alameda claim are pyrrhotite and pyrite, which form stringers and fine grained disseminations in the hornfelsed country rocks.

Locally, a 5 to 25 centimetre wide mineralized quartz vein has been traced over 305 metres. Samples of the vein are reported to have yielded up to 3.4 grams per tonne gold and 137 grams per tonne silver (Property File - unknown [unknown]: Description of the Showings - Project #280, South Okanagan).

The area has been explored intermittently since the first influx of prospectors in 1878. Surface programs consisting of panning, lode prospecting and trenching led to the discovery of silver, gold and copper in 1896.

The property was staked in 1896 and consists of an alignment of the Gateway claim and three additional claims adjoining in succession to the southeast: the Golden Dawn (Lot 1349), Moonlight (Lot 1528) and Alameda (Lot 2876). These claims were worked regularly each summer from 1903 to 1911. The workings on the Gateway claim include a short adit and shallow shaft. On the Golden Dawn there is a 9-metre deep shaft and a 9-metre long adit. The Moonlight has several prospect pits and the Alameda features a shaft and two prospect pits. Significant gold has been reported on the Alameda claim and copper values ranging to 5 per cent are reported from various showings on the other claims.

In 1983, P. Peto prospected, relocated and sampled the showings. The following is a brief description of samples from the property (Assessment Report 11972): pyrite bearing hornfels from a 2 by 3- metre open cut; molybdenite in a 1 metre wide quartz vein in granitic rocks; limonitic quartz-carbonate breccia in a fault zone; chalcopyrite; pyrite in drusy quartz from a 3-metre pit; massive pyrite pod from hornfels in a prospect pit; pyrite and chalcopyrite in chalcedonic quartz from dump and pyrite, clay and carbonate alteration in hornfels breccia.