The Men 3 occurrence is located on southern facing slopes, north of the Taylor Arm of Sprout Lake.

The area is underlain by pillow basalt, basalt flow breccia and massive porphyritic basalt flows of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group). The basalts are intruded by numerous diorite-granodiorite dikes that range in width from 1 to 10 metres with roughly north or northwest trending contacts with the basalt. The dikes are related to Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite. A number of strong north and northwest strike-slip faults occur; less dominant faults strike northeast.

Locally, an intermittent zone of shearing and carbonate alteration, up to 80 metres wide and trending between 160 to 180 degrees, hosts a number of 1 metre wide pyritic silicified zones. In 1992, a grab sample (MPR 11) of quartz vein in basalt assayed 1.15 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 22451).

In 1988 and 1992, Area Explorations completed programs of prospecting, geological mapping and rock, silt and soil sampling on the area as the Men 3 claim.