The Reno showing is located north of Highway 3A, 1.25 kilometres due west of Yellow Lake.

The Reno showing is underlain by the Carboniferous to Triassic Shoemaker Formation, immediately west of and unconformably overlain by a fault-bound basin of Eocene Penticton Group volcanic rocks. The Shoemaker Formation consists mainly of blue-grey chert, minor limestone and greenstone that have been intruded by pyroxenite, hornblendite and serpentinite. Silicification is widespread in greenstone. The contact between chert and greenstone is gradational over widths of up to 10 metres. Bedding strikes northeast with moderate to steep dips to the southeast.

The Reno showing consists of a shear zone composed of narrow, subparallel, northwest-trending shears that are silicified, oxidized and contain pyrite. A narrow lens of Springbrook Formation conglomerate occurs within the fault zone. At the Reno showing, pyrite, minor malachite and manganese oxide have been exposed by several opencuts. The zone is traceable for about 20 metres on surface.

Sample JD-M-05 taken from this shear zone in 1984 yielded 1.09 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 13533). Approximately 750 metres to the west, sample FC-157 taken from a trench, yielded 1.80 grams per tonne silver from a chert breccia with disseminated pyrite (Assessment Report 13533). Sample FC-158 yielded 3.50 grams per tonne silver and 0.40 per cent copper from silicified greenstone containing up to 10 per cent disseminated pyrite and malachite staining.

A lead-zinc-silver geochemical soil anomaly was discovered near the Reno showing in 1988 during exploration on the Flats claims by Grand National Resources Inc.