The property is located on the steep side of the precipitous mountain which stands just north of the point where Paradise Creek enters Bear Lake, at about 610 metres elevation.

The area is underlain by hornblende-biotite quartz diorite with diorite gneiss bands of the Tertiary-Jurassic Coast Plutonic Complex. A large, complex fault zone, traced for about 4.5 kilometres in a north-south direction, hosts the ore zones of the Surf Inlet and Pugsley mines. In the mine area the fault zone is convex toward the west and consists of several shear zones up to 9 metres thick and 45 to 60 metres apart with average dips of 45 degrees west.

Locally, a quartz vein containing auriferous pyrite occurs in sheared quartz diorite of the Coast Plutonic Complex. The vein is 1.2 to 1.5 metres wide for 18.2 metres.

The property was originally staked by Mr. Wells in 1980. During the years 1920 and 1921, work by Mr. Wells mainly involved the driving of a drift adit for over 90 metres, just below the surface showing. He also did some surface stripping. In 1942, drilling near the Wells property intersected 3 metres of 6.5 grams per tonne gold, and one metre of 21.6 grams per tonne gold (George Cross Newsletter Number 108). In 1997 Rupert Resources drilled the down dip extension of the Surf orebody (103H 027). This extension occurs on the Wells property. In 2010, two drill holes were performed on the same sites as the 1997 drilling program. Drill hole 2000-01 intersected a 2.5 metre wide mineralized zone including a 1.1 metre interval grading 0.60 gram per tonne gold, 0.8 gram per tonne silver and 138 parts per million copper. Two additional mineralized stringers were intersected further down hole at 309.0 to 310.5 metres and 327.0 to 327.5 metres. The first mineralized stringer returned 0.4 metres grading 4.9 grams per tonne gold, 158 grams per tonne silver and 9.32 per cent copper. The second mineralized ringer returned 0.15 metres grading 11.85 grams per tonne gold, 16.0 grams per tonne silver and 3.33 per cent copper. Drill hole 2000-02 intersected a 7.1 metre wide zone on quartz and brecciated metasediments including a 1.1 metre section which assayed 1.1 grams per tonne gold, 2.2 grams per tonne silver and 814 parts per million copper (Assessment Report 26704).