The Swede showing is situated 500 metres north of American Creek, approximately 8 kilometres west of the community of Hope.

The area of the Swede occurrence is underlain by altered, sericitized and chloritized diorite, gabbro, pyroxenite, peridotite, dunite and hornblendite. Granodiorite, diorite and gabbro phases are reported to be gradational to each other. Rusty oxidized and crumbly shear zones are common in the pyroxenite. Garnet-rich paragneiss and sericite schist occurs nearby, apparently as a roof pendant. The intrusive rocks are reported to form an arcuate-shaped complex occurring as a marginal phase of the main intrusive mass, which is thought to be Cretaceous.

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Shearing is strongest along a south trend with dips predominantly to the west. Northwest-striking shears with north dips are also common.

Nickeliferous pyrrhotite occurs disseminated with chalcopyrite in fractured pyroxenite and peridotite. Pyrite occurs sparingly as disseminations in the rusty oxidized and sheared zones.

The Swede occurrence was discovered in 1967. In the years that followed, Kelso Explorations Ltd. completed several surface exploration programs that culminated in a 341-metre drill program, resulting in narrow intersections of anomalous nickel in pyroxenite and peridotite (Assessment Report 3355).

Results from the 1970 drill program ranged from between 0.09 per cent nickel and 0.02 per cent copper over 1.2 metres to 0.01 per cent nickel and 0.01 per cent copper over 9 metres (Assessment Report 3355).

No work was recorded on the property until APAC Resources Inc. optioned the property in 2011. They contracted CMG to conduct two small induced polarization surveys over the Big Nic and Swede showings. A coincident chargeability high and resistivity low was detected on the western edge of the Swede grid (Assessment Report 32874).

In 2013 and 2014, programs of soil, silt and rock sampling, prospecting and geological mapping were completed.