The Never Sweat occurrence is located on the western side of Chipman Creek, approximately 3.1 kilometres north west of its junction with the Chemainus River.

The area is underlain by the Mississippian to Pennsylvanian Fourth Lake Formation of the Buttle Lake Group (formerly the upper sediment package of Muller's Myra Formation). These sediments have been folded into a broad synform with a fold axis trending at approximately 127 degrees. Bedding in the sediments strike between 090 and 140 degrees and dip moderately to steeply to the southwest. A large body of quartz diorite of the Early to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite (formerly called the Island Intrusions) is exposed to the west of the showing, outcropping within 800 metres.

Locally, rhodonite occurs in massive pale pink bands up to 2 centimetres wide interlayered with thinly laminated dark brown chert, cherty siltstone and jasper. The rhodonite is highly fractured and contains up to 25 per cent manganese oxide. In 1986, a sample of this material contained 15.62 per cent manganese (Assessment Report 16200).

The width and lateral extent of the showing has not been determined. It is thought that the rhodonite is a contact metamorphic product of a manganese-rich sediment which came in contact with the quartz diorite.

From 1986 through 1987, International Cherokee Development completed programs of geochemical sampling, geological mapping and ground geophysical surveys on the area as the Never Sweat claim.