The Snow-Lower Road occurrence is located on the southern-facing slopes of a ridge separating the upper Kennedy and Taylor rivers, approximately 46 kilometres west of Port Alberni.

The area is underlain by Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation basalt and various members of the Jurassic Island Intrusive Suite. The Karmutsen Formation consists of pillow lava and flows and associated tuffaceous and hyaloclastic strata. Intrusive rocks within the property area are extremely variable in texture and composition but can be subdivided into two main groups: i) fine-grained, aphanitic to porphyritic dikes of probable granitic or quartz monzonitic composition, which may be related to small stocks of similar composition but exhibit a much coarser grain and ii) diorite to quartz diorite bodies, which are usually of irregular shape.

Locally, there are quartz and quartz-carbonate veins with irregularly distributed sulphide veins of pyrite, pyrrhotite, galena and minor sphalerite and chalcopyrite. These veins range in thickness from less than one centimetre to several tens of centimetres and usually occur as sub-parallel sets up to several metres wide along north westerly striking faults. Adjacent to these structures, wall rock is commonly silicified and epidote is ubiquitous in un-silicified basalt.

In 1986, the Snow 1-5 and White 1-2 claims were staked following the discovery of an auriferous polymetallic vein in outcrop exposed during logging activities. From 1987 to 1989, Cassau Exploration completed programs of geological mapping, geochemical sampling surveys, trenching, VLF-EM surveys and three diamond drill holes, totalling 150.6 metres. From 1990 to 1998, Snowfield Resources optioned the property and completed programs of soil and rock chip sampling and ten diamond drill holes, totalling 933.9 metres.

In 1998, diamond drilling intersections assayed:

- DDH S98-1: over 0.25 metres graded 9.7 grams per tonne gold from 72.9 to 73.4 metres.

- DDH S98-2: over 0.15 metres graded 15.9 grams per tonne gold from 28.85 to 29.0 metres.

(Assessment Report 25663)

In 2012, an airborne geophysical survey was performed by Precision Geosurveys Inc. for Snowfield Development Corporation.

In 2015, an air-photo-geological interpretive study was conducted over the Snow and Snow-Lower Road occurrences for owners T. and D. Paterson. In 2019 a program of rock chip sampling was conducted of mapped and unmapped mineral zones located within a 500 metre radius of the Main Zone. A sample of mineralized quartz-carbonate veins in hornfelsed basalt angular float (19SNOW-6) collected from near the Lower Road occurrence returned values of 1.74 grams per tonne Au and 7.74 grams per tonne Ag (Assessment Report 38488).