The Old Joe showing is located near the confluence of Heckman Creek with Monashee Creek, approximately 8.5 kilometres southeast of Cherryville.

The area is underlain by sedimentary and volcanic rocks of the Devonian to Triassic Harper Ranch Group. These comprise mudstone, chert, limestone, sandstone and conglomerate.

A gold-silver-lead occurrence of unknown type is noted on Geological Survey of Canada Open File 637 (#315). Later work describes several old pits exposing an oxidized quartz vein with disseminated pyrite and pyrrhotite. In 1988, a rock sample (R15) assayed 0.24 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 18706).

Another occurrence referred to as the No.2 vein, located approximately 250 metres to the south east, comprises a volcanic feldspar porphyry (lamprophyre) containing greater than 5 per cent biotite mineralized with disseminated pyrite. In 1987, a sample (R-18) across 60 centimetres of this zone assayed 0.14 gram per tonne gold and greater than 0.2 per cent arsenic (Assessment Report 17386).

A third zone of mineralization, referred to as the East Vein, is reported and is located approximately 700 metres to the north- north east.

During 1981 through 1986, programs of prospecting, geological mapping, rock and soil, sampling, minor trenching and ground VLF-EM surveys were completed. In 1987, Ashowrth Explorations completed a program of geological mapping, prospecting and rock sampling was completed on the area as the Hilton property. In 1988, Hanna Pacific Steal completed a program of geological mapping, rock and soil sampling, ground magnetic and electromagnetic surveys and trenching.