The approximate location of the Jewel prospect is at an elevation of about 150-200 feet, about 0.5 mile north-northwest of the west head of Seal Cove. The site is in section 17, T. 77 S., R. 91 E., of the Copper River Meridian. It corresponds to loc. 116 in Elliott and others (1978). The location is probably accurate within about 0.5 mile.

Southern Gravina Island is underlain by an assemblage of undivided Silurian or Ordovician metamorphosed bedded and intrusive rocks; a stock and associated dikes of Silurian trondhjemite that cuts the metamorphic assemblage; and a sequence of Upper Triassic carbonate, clastic, rhyolitic, and basaltic strata that unconformably overlies the older rocks (Berg, 1973, 1982; Berg and others, 1988). The rocks are complexly folded and are cut by high-angle faults and by low-angle thrust faults. In many places, the Triassic rhyolite and the rocks beneath it are permeated by microscopic particles of hydrothermal hematite, giving them a pink, purple, or red hue (Berg, 1973, p. 14).

Brooks (1902, p. 71) and Wright and Wright (1908, p. 139) describe the Jewel deposit only as a pyrite- and chalcopyrite-bearing quartz [fissure] vein 5-10 feet wide, that strikes N-S.

Maas and others' (1995, p. 227) description of the mineral deposits in the Seal Cove area probably applies in general to the Jewel prospect. They report that chalcopyrite occurs as vein fillings, disseminations, and in fault breccias west and northwest of Seal Cove. The mineralized breccias have a siliceous matrix. Small quartz-barite veins with galena and sphalerite have been found west of Seal Cove, and on the northeast slopes of Punch Hill. In addition to the N-S fault that probably localizes the Jewel vein, the rocks near the prospect also are cut by a high-angle fault that strikes NW (Maas and others, 1995, fig. 58).