The Galena occurrence is located west of the Bedwell River, approximately 2.3 kilometres north of its junction with Ursus Creek.
The area is underlain mainly by volcanics of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation, Vancouver Group. In the Bedwell River area these consist of fine grained andesites and black or dark green basalts. Lenses of recrystallized limestone also occur locally. Large areas to the immediate west of the head of Bedwell Sound and a few kilometres to the north are underlain by rock of the Early to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite. These plutonic rocks vary in composition from gabbro to quartz monzonite but are mainly granodiorite and quartz diorite.
The showing is reported to occur in altered volcanic rock that early reports called diabase. Granitic dykes are reported to occur in the vicinity. A strong joint, striking about 025 degrees and dipping 75 degrees west, forms the footwall of the mineralized zone. A set of joints, striking about due north and dipping steeply, intersects the footwall joint and the mineralization extends a short distance to the north along them. The western boundary of the mineralization is irregular, varying from about 5 to 38 centimetres.
The mineralized material consists of altered volcanic rock more or less replaced by magnetite and chalcopyrite. A section studied microscopically consisted largely of diopside with masses of these metallic minerals. This ore is also cut by chlorite veinlets. One sample contained 6.86 grams per tonne silver, 3.1 per cent copper and a trace of gold (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1916, page 334).
A short 3 metre shaft and a 12 metre open cut exposed the deposit around the turn of the century.
In 1970 and 1971, W. Guppy completed programs of soil sampling and geological mapping on the area as the Tie and Braw claims. In 1988, Intercontinental Ventures completed a program of geochemical sampling, geological mapping and a ground electromagnetic survey on the area as the Prosper property. In 1991, Golden Hinde Mines completed a program of soils sampling and ground magnetic and electromagnetic surveys.
