The Victor showing is located on the south side of the Bear River, about 1.6 kilometres northeast of the forks in the river, which are immediately above the confluence of the Bear River with American Creek, approximately 21 kilometres northeast of Stewart.

The area is underlain by north trending, steeply dipping Hazelton Group rocks comprising the Middle Jurassic Salmon River Formation and underlying Lower Jurassic Unuk River Formation (Bulletin 63). These rocks lie on the west limb of a north-trending syncline.

Mineralization at the adit, on the Independence claim, comprises a northwest(?) trending fracture zone. The zone lies at the contact of a porphyry dike in argillite and hosts at least two lenses of nearly massive sphalerite-galena. The northwestern lens is 6.1 metres long, 4.6 metres deep and 0.25 metre wide. The southeastern lens is about 4.6 metres long and 0.1 to 0.2 metre wide (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1910). Dimensions of the fracture zone are not known. A grab sample from the adit dump assayed trace gold, 582.9 grams per tonne silver, 44.0 per cent lead and 22.6 per cent zinc (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1910).

In 1909-10, the showing was covered by the Victor claim group (Victor 1-2, Pasco, Independence, Kenniwick and Provident claims). During that time, Bear River Canyon Mining Co. Ltd. explored the property and completed a series of opencuts and at least one tunnel, 43 metres long.

During 2005 through 2010, Auramex completed programs of prospecting, geological mapping, geochemical sampling and airborne geophysical surveys on the area as the Bear River-Surprise Creek property.