The STANDARD LOCATION shaft vein is located near the top of Mount Burns, 8 kilometres southwest of the village of Wells.

The Standard Location showing lies within the Barkerville Terrane of the Omineca Belt. The Barkerville Terrane is in thrust contact with Triassic Quesnellia Terrane rocks to the west and Hadrynian to Lower Paleozoic Cariboo Terrane rocks to the east. The Barkerville Terrane in this region is underlain by the dominantly metasedimentary rocks of the Hadrynian to Lower Paleozoic Snowshoe Group. In this area the Snowshoe Group comprises limestone, phyllite and quartzite. These rocks have been regionally metamorphosed to greenschist facies.

Quartzites with some interbedded thin layers of argillaceous schist underlie the claims. Cutting these rocks are three approximately parallel quartz veins which strike at 030 to 035 degrees and dip 75 degrees west with widths up to about 1.5 metres. Early reports indicate the presence of pyrite, galena and visible gold in some of the quartz veins. However, later investigations report only pyrite mineralization with trace amounts of gold and silver. Bowman's 1880's map of the area noted 4 drifts in the Burns Mountain Mining Company's Tunnel.

Gemco Minerals Inc. acquired Mount Burns claim group from Firstline Recovery Systems Inc in 2006. The property extends southeast from Mount Nelson, across Lightning Creek to Mount Burns and Mount Amador and west to Grub Mountain. An aggressive trenching and prospecting program followed up with and supported by geophysics was conducted over several areas of the large property.

The 2010 program concentrated on trenching and geochemical sampling of rock exposures and old mine sites on Mount Burns. Thirty-seven of 236 rock samples collected assayed greater than 1 gram per tonne gold. Persistent anomalous values were obtained from the Spider Vein, Perkins, Cohen Incline and Textbook showing areas on Mount Burns. Grab sample 189641 from the G Vein, 22 metres to the northwest of the Standard Shaft Vein, assayed 8.15 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 32340).

Further trenching in 2011, along with self potential surveys in the Mount Burns area, exposed three rock samples with greater than 1 gram per tonne gold to the northeast and west of the Cohen Incline, approximately 1 kilometre southwest of the Standard Shaft Vein, and several specimens contained visible gold in quartz veins.

In 2012, Gemco Minerals Inc. conducted a Phase 1 bulk sample testing of the Perkins workings, approximately 1.4 kilometres southwest of the Standard Location, to determine whether the old tailings could be further processed economically. The on-site processing successfully created a fine pyritic concentrate with an estimated 90 per cent recovery (Assessment Report 34431).