The Crown showings are located on the southern flanks of Knob Hill and 5 kilometres east of Greenwood.

The Crown showings were initially expressed as geophysical and geochemical anomalies in 1986. Follow-up trenching and diamond drilling by a Noranda Mines and Consolidated Boundary Exploration Ltd. Joint Venture, uncovered several areas of gold mineralization in shallow to moderate dipping, northwest striking shear zones. Sampling in one trench had an assay of 34.56 grams per tonne over 2 metres (Kim, 1987).

The area was worked as the Wendy claims in 1966 and 1970. In 1966, the claims were examined by Meridian Exploration Syndicate, under option from J. Forshaw. They conducted geophysical and geochemical surveys and drilling, which encountered pyrite, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite, with copper values of 0.2 per cent over 21 metres (Assessment Report 835). In 1970, Granby Mining Company Limited conducted an IP survey in the area.

The area is underlain by volcanics and metasediments of the Upper Paleozoic Attwood Group; greenstones and cherts of the Upper Paleozoic Knob Hill Group; and sharpstone conglomerate of the Triassic Brooklyn Group. These rocks are intruded by diorites.