The property is located at the head of Gidon Creek, a tributary of McCarren Creek, 8 kilometres south-southeast of Greenwood.

The initial work in the Mabel area consists of a number of shallow shafts and trenches opened about 1892 on small pyritiferous quartz veins and zones of pyrrhotite-bearing siliceous argillites. The Mabel (Lot 609) and Cornicopia (Lot 608) claims were Crown granted to J. Douglas in 1894. There is no further record of development until 1937 when Crown-grants centred about the old Mabel claim were owned or controlled by G.H. Worthington and associates. An inclined 30-metre deep shaft was sunk at that time.

King Midas Mines Ltd., in 1962, consolidated many of the old Crown grants and carried out a reconnaissance geochemical survey. An adit was driven approximately 120 metres to an area below the old workings. Apparently no significant mineralization was intersected in this operation.

Lexington Mines Ltd. in 1968 acquired the Mabel and adjacent Crown grants. Work done during the period 1969 to 1971 inclusive, included detailed geological mapping, soil and silts geochemical surveys, and magnetometer and induced potential surveys.

Aalenian Resources Ltd. in January 1974 optioned a 75 per cent interest in 23 Crown granted claims and leases and 53 located claims.

The McCarren Creek, Goosmus Creek area is underlain by a southeasterly striking 1.5-kilometre-wide belt of Paleozoic gneiss and schist bounded both north and south by zones of Paleozoic or early Mesozoic metavolcanic and metasedimentary beds. These rocks are cut by a wide variety of igneous intrusions, including porphyritic quartz feldspar stock and a few serpentinite and gabbro bodies. Also, dykes and irregular-shaped microdiorite intrusions are found throughout the area cutting many of the units. The youngest rocks are pulaskite and basalt dykes and a small outlier of Tertiary conglomerate. The oldest intrusion is an elongated serpentinite body that extends northwest from south of the International Boundary to McCarren Creek, a distance of 7 kilometres.

The so-called Mabel veins are located between the City of Paris and the No.7 mines. The veins consist of a series of small auriferous quartz stringers which were actively prospected in 1897 and again in 1937. The only production from the area was in 1937 when an inclined shaft was sunk on a narrow zone of silicified schist that yielded 106 tonnes of ore with low gold, silver and copper values.

A detailed examination of the Mabel area shows that some of the silicified zones and quartz stringers are related to broader replacement-type sulphide deposits associated with large Tertiary microdiorite dykes. The replacements occur as thin pyrite- pyrrhotite layers in laminar-bedded siliceous argillites or ill- defined zones of more massive sulphides. Analysis of a pyrrhotite-rich composite sample from a 3 metre wide replacement lense, exposed on the main road south of the Mabel portal shows 15.04 per cent iron, 0.05 per cent copper, and only a trace of gold and silver.

In 1937, 106 tonnes of ore were shipped from this property. From this ore 435 grams per tonne of gold, 1244 grams per tonne of silver and 24.5 kilograms of copper were recovered.