The Rose occurrence is located on the southern slopes of Mount Brenton, approximately 2.2 kilometres south east of Holyoak Lake.

The area is underlain mainly by volcanic rocks of the Late Devonian McLaughlin Ridge Formation (Sicker Group) and by sediments of the Mississippian to Pennsylvanian Fourth Lake Formation (Buttle Lake Group). The local stratigraphy is disrupted by folding, faulting, (pre-Triassic as well as Late Tertiary) and the intrusions of gabbro and diabase sills and dykes (informally called the Mount Hall Gabbro) that are coeval with the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation.

Most of the original rock textures and structures have been obliterated by extensive faulting, shearing and polyphase deformation, resulting in the formation of cataclastic schists. About 70 metres of sericite and graphitic schists, as well as non-schistose argillite have been exposed along the north side of a road. In the rocks a strongly developed schistosity strikes 065 degrees and dips 79 degrees north (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1965, page 268).

In 2007, Laramide Resources completed a regional program of geochemical sampling and airborne geophysical surveys on the area as apart of the Lara property.