The Golden Rose occurrence is located on a mineralized quartz vein exposed in the bed of a northward flowing tributary creek of the Klinaklini River, 19 kilometres south-southwest of Kleena Kleene.

The area is apparently underlain by a unit of Upper Triassic (Norian) basaltic and andesitic volcanics, greywacke, siltstone and conglomerate of the Stikinia Terrane, between the Tchaikazan fault to the northeast and the Jurassic to Tertiary Coast Plutonic Complex to the southwest (Geological Survey of Canada Open File 1163, Paper 68-33, Map 1713A). This package has been assigned to the Upper Triassic Mosley Formation.

The quartz vein is 50 centimetres wide, and strikes northwest, dipping 40 degrees to the northeast. The quartz is vuggy and brecciated and contains unspecified sulphide minerals, although arsenopyrite may be assumed to be present from the reported high arsenic content (Assessment Report 12349). Two chip samples across the vein indicate a gold equivalent of approximately 3.4 grams per tonne, and between 1 and 5 per cent arsenic; the samples are also anomalous in antimony (Assessment Report 12349). Geochemical anomalies are reported in soils in the vicinity (Assessment Report 12349).

In 1983, Mintek Resources Ltd. completed 2.8 kilometers of baseline and picket cross lines on 125-meter centres. 202 soil samples were collected and analysed by I.C.P. methods.