The Edward VII occurrence is located at 1524 metres elevation, 6.25 kilometres south-southeast of Baldy Mountain and 1.75 kilometres west of the Cariboo-Amelia occurrence (082ESW020) of the historic Camp McKinney.
Little is known of the history of the Edward VII occurrence. In 1905, the Edward VII claim was Crown granted to G.M. Bennett and H.J. Homann.
The Edward VII occurrence lies in a complex sequence of volcanic and metasedimentary rocks of the Carboniferous to Permian Anarchist Group. To the north are Cretaceous granitic and granodioritic rocks of the Okanagan batholith. Middle Jurassic granitic rocks of the Nelson intrusions occur to the southwest. Eocene Penticton Group volcanic and sedimentary rocks overlie locally sheared amphibolite and serpentinite bodies of the Anarchist Group to the east. For a more detailed description of the regional geology of the McKinney camp refer to the Cariboo-Amelia occurrence (082ESW020).
A series of opencuts and pits, beginning at 1410 metres elevation, explore 61 metres of a quartz vein along a southwesterly trend. The vein strikes 075 degrees and dips 75 degrees southeast. The best quartz was seen in a 2.4-metre deep pit. Here, the vein is 51 to 91 centimetres wide on the footwall of a 1.00 to 1.37 metre wide shear zone. Mineralization consists of pyrite masses and trains, scattered and veined with quartz. In other pits the vein is as narrow as 23 centimetres. Assay values from the vein, however, were negligible in gold and silver (Bulletin 6, page 17). A 6.1-metre shaft is located 116 metres southwest of the above pit. It is hosted in greenstone. An adit, 53 metres northwesterly from this shaft, was driven 40.2 metres along a strike of 333 degrees. No vein was intersected and the adit appears to follow a quartzite-greenstone bedding contact (Bulletin 6, page 17).
On the eastern border of the Edward VII, a 7.6 to 60.9 centimetre wide quartz vein strikes 120 degrees and dips 75 degrees to the southwest. A small shaft and adit were developed on this vein prior to 1940 and since caved in.
