The Surprise showing is located 0.5 kilometre west of the Kitsault River, 25.5 kilometres north of the town of Alice Arm. This showing was extensively explored by Dolly Varden Mines in the early 1970s for copper and precious metals.

The area is underlain by a sequence of volcanics and sediments of the Upper Triassic Stuhini Group and the Lower-Upper Jurassic Hazelton Group. The sequence is folded into the doubly plunging, north-northwest trending Kitsault River syncline. This sequence has been regionally metamorphosed to greenschist facies.

The Surprise occurrence is hosted in an altered pyritic andesite of the Hazelton Group similar to that of the "Copper Belt" to the west. The andesite is overlain by argillite, siltstone and wacke to the north and east.

This showing consists of a 3.7 metre wide northeast striking zone containing quartz-calcite-barite veins and lenses up to 6.0 metres wide mineralized with blebs and stringers of pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena and sphalerite with traces of native silver. Most of the mineralization is contained in two veins, one striking 060 degrees for 73 metres and a second striking 020 degrees for 76 metres. A 1.5 metre chip sample assayed 13.7 grams per tonne gold, 120 grams per tonne silver and 2.25 per cent copper (Western Miner - August 1970, page 41).

The principal showings are situated at 487 metres elevation in a number of old pits and trenches close to an old cabin (ca. 1970). The main cut, 30 metres south of the cabin, is 12 metres long and oriented east. In 1970, Dolly Varden Mines Ltd. geologically mapped surface workings and completed a geochemical soil survey collecting 500 samples covering 34 claims.

During 2010 through 2019, Dolly Silver Corporation explored the area as apart of the Dolly Varden property. A complete property exploration history can be found at the Dolly Varden (MINFILE 103P 188) occurrence.