The Royal Canadian and Nevada veins are situated approximately 2 kilometres south of the Kootenay River, 11.2 kilometres west of Nelson.

The area is underlain by Jurassic pseudodiorite and pyroxenite of unknown affinity and by volcanic rocks of the Lower Jurassic Elise Formation, Rossland Group. These have been intruded by granodiorite of the Middle to Late Jurassic Nelson Intrusions (Nelson batholith).

The Royal Canadian vein, striking 345 degrees and dipping 60 to 70 degrees northeast, is hosted in pseudodiorite. The vein is 1 to 30 centimetres wide and contains quartz gangue impregnated with pyrite and chalcopyrite. Pyrite is also disseminated in the country rock. The southern portion of the vein is offset a few metres and it is reported that the vein is weaker and the values lower beyond the fault.

The Nevada vein lies approximately 460 metres to the southwest of the No. 4 adit on the Royal Canadian vein. The vein strikes at 080 degrees with a 50-degree southeast dip, almost at right angles to the trend of the Royal Canadian vein. It is situated, for the most part, at the contact of pseudodiorite with a raft or inlier of schistose volcanics. The Nevada vein ranges from 0.2 to 1.37 metres in width and hosts stringers and knots of quartz well mineralized with pyrite.

Both veins produced gold, silver, and minor lead and zinc. From a total of 113 tonnes of ore (90 tonnes reportedly from the Nevada), 3359 grams of gold and 3454 grams of silver were produced. In 1943, scheelite was reported from the Royal Canadian and Nevada groups on Fortynine Creek. Scheelite was also found in gravels of Fortynine Creek on the Acorn (MINFILE 082FSW269) occurrence downstream from these claims.

Work on the Royal Canadian and Nevada veins dates back to the late 1800s. In 1890, two tunnels—22.9 and 19.8 metres in length—had been developed. The tunnels exposed a vein 0.76 to 0.91 metre wide occurring within the slate country rock. A Mr. Johnson of Sydney, Australia, made an offer to purchase one half of the Royal Canadian claim with an agreement to erect a mine plant, provided sufficient grades of ore could be produced.

By 1895, approximately $2000 CAD had been expended in development work on the Royal Canadian claim. In 1896, the Royal Canadian claim group consisted of the Royal Canadian, Colorado and Nevada claims. On the Colorado claim, approximately 121.9 metres east of the Royal Canadian, a short tunnel had been run south on a small, white, opaque quartz vein 5 to 51 centimetres in width, trending north-south and dipping east. The vein carried some iron and copper sulphides. Reportedly, 13.6 tonnes of ore mined from the Colorado vein and shipped to the Poorman Mill yielded $14.5 CAD gold per 0.91 tonne (1 short ton; Ministry of Mines Annual Report, 1896, page 85). On the Royal Canadian claim, a similar, but much stronger, vein 0.15 to 1.1 metres wide was developed by a tunnel driven 62.5 metres south. The vein yielded a white, sugary quartz ore—very similar to that at the Poorman mine (082FSW086)—with 8 to 12 per cent iron sulphides and some copper sulphides. An upper tunnel exposed the same vein with widths of 10.2 to 30.5 centimetres. Samples taken from a 54.4-tonne stockpile of ore assayed $8 to $51 CAD in gold (Ministry of Mines Annual Report, 1896, page 85). On the Nevada claim, sluicing was used in an attempt to locate the source of local quartz float, but no vein was found. Duncan United Mines Limited is believed to have been the claim owner and operator during this period.

In 1899, the Royal Canadian and Colorado claims were Crown granted to Granite Gold Mines Limited, and the Nevada claim was Crown granted to Robert C. Pollett. The following year, Granite Gold Mines produced 10 886.2 tonnes of gold-bearing ore from its Royal Canadian, Granite and Poorman claim groups (Ministry of Mines Annual Report, 1900, page 842).

In 1911, the Royal Canadian and Nevada claims were owned by a syndicate. The Nevada claim was leased to J.P. Swedberg and one car of ore was shipped to the Trail smelter. The Royal Canadian was then Crown granted to Iron Mountain Limited in January 1916.

The Royal Canadian and Nevada claims were bonded to A.G. Norcross in 1925. Norcross completed minor work on the Nevada claim between 1926 and 1927. In 1928, the Royal Canadian and Nevada claim group—consisting of the Royal Canadian, Nevada, Nevada Fraction, Muldoon, Roy No. 2, Mocken Bird Fraction, Colorado, Colorado Fraction, Maple Leaf, Minnie and Kathleen Fraction claims—was acquired by Kootenay Premier Mines Limited. A small amount of preliminary development work was completed on the Royal Canadian vein. The old workings consisted of three short drift tunnels with a vertical depth of approximately 45.7 metres. In 1932, small shipments of ore were made from the Royal Canadian claim by E. Bergstrom and from the Nevada claim by D. Norcross.

In 1933, J.G. Allan incorporated Kootenay Nevada Mines Limited and initiated a new program of development at the Royal Canadian and Nevada claims, including reconditioning of the old workings and other preliminary work. The following year, both the Royal Canadian and Nevada claims were owned by A. Tuck. By 1938, the Royal Canadian claim was owned by C.E. Crossley. Ownership then transferred to G.H. Grimwood in 1940.

In 1944, Kenville Gold Mines Limited, the owners of the Granite-Poorman mine (MINFILE 082FW086), acquired a large tract of land on the northern slopes of Toad Mountain, including the Royal Canadian and Nevada properties. The company cleaned out all adit-portals on the property, with the exception of those that were seriously caved, and surveyed the accessible workings.

On behalf of Greenwich Resources Incorporated, Robertson Research Canada Limited conducted a soil sampling program over the Blewett claim group, including the Nevada claim, in 1983.

In 1989, Coral Industries acquired the Royal Canadian claim area as part of the westernmost portion of the Venango property and amalgamated it with the Granite-Poorman (Kenville; MINFILE 082FSW086) property to the east.

The Kenville mine property, including the Royal Canadian workings, was acquired by Anglo Swiss Resources Incorporated in 1992. Teck Exploration Limited optioned the Kenville property from Anglo Swiss Resources in 1994 and amalgamated it with the adjacent Ron property. Teck completed 16 diamond drill holes, as well as induced polarization, resistivity, ground magnetometer and geochemical surveying. Teck Exploration later dropped the option in 1997.

In 2002, Anglo Swiss Resources optioned the Kenville property to a joint venture among Babylon Enterprises Limited, Foaming Holdings Limited, Glacial Holdings Limited and Tracer Enterprises Limited. The joint venture group then optioned a percentage of their holdings to Gold Standard Resources Corporation. In 2005, on behalf of the joint venture group, Bob Burton carried out an exploration program of mapping, geochemical soil sampling and excavator trenching on the west side of Eagle Creek. The following year, work consisted of geochemical soil sampling, preparatory underground exploration, adit rehabilitation and trench reclamation.

In 2007 and 2008, Anglo Swiss Resources drilled 50 holes near the Kenville mine. In 2009, on behalf of Anglo Swiss Resources, Equity Exploration Consultants Limited undertook an exploration program consisting of 680 line kilometres of airborne electromagnetic geophysical surveying, surface diamond drilling, and underground rehabilitation and drilling. Ten diamond drill holes were completed on the south side of Eagle Creek, approximately 700 metres south of the Kenville mine.

By 2010, the Kenville property had been expanded to include separate claim groups to the north and south. In 2010, on behalf of Anglo Swiss Resources, St. Pierre Geoconsulting Incorporated conducted airborne magnetic and electromagnetic geophysical surveys over the entire Nelson Mining Camp area. Soil sampling was conducted over the central Kenville claim block, though the majority of the sampling was conducted in the area of the Silver Lynx occurrence (MINFILE 082FSW378) to the south.

Workings on the Royal Canadian consisted of four adits. On the Nevada, two adits and a shaft were developed.