The Golden Crest showing is located on the east side of the Illiance River about 14.5 kilometres east-northeast of Alice Arm. The area was explored for copper and precious metals in 1916.

The region is underlain by Lower Jurassic Hazelton Group volcanics and sediments situated on the east limb of the north-northwest trending Mount McGuire anticline. These rocks have been regionally metamorphosed to greenschist facies.

The area of the showing is underlain by sandstone and tuff outcrops to the north. The sandstone is cut by quartz veins and stringers mineralized with pyrite and minor chalcopyrite. The largest vein is 0.3 metre wide and extends for 1.8 to 2.4 metres in a northeast direction. Minor amounts of barite and rhodochrosite are reported to occur in the gangue. A sample assayed 5.31 grams per tonne gold, 22 grams per tonne silver and 2.0 per cent copper (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1916).

In 1990, work on behalf of Canadian Cariboo Resources Ltd. comprised a reconnaissance rock, soil and stream silt geochemical survey and prospecting. In 2005, Kitsault Resources Ltd. completed a reconnaissance stream sediment survey on the area as the Kitsault Gold property.