The Map and adjoining John claims are located just east of the Granby River, 16 kilometres north of Grand Forks. The principal activity on this property in 1976 was the investigation of red earth for decorative and/or agricultural purposes. The property is accessed directly by paved road from Grand Forks.

The red earth appears to be the result of weathering of pyritiferous volcanic rocks in the form of boulders and cobbles intermixed with other slopewash debris along the southwest base of Volcanic Mountain. The red ochre soil is the matrix to coarse clastic debris (mainly pyritiferous greenstone), in the approximate ratio of 5:1, underlying a 400 x 200 metre area in the southwest corner of the Map claim. The remainder of the Map and adjoining John claims is underlain by glacial till and alluvial deposits.