The Daniel occurrence is situated on the north side of Carpenter Creek, approximately 1.5 kilometres northwest of Sandon, in the Slocan Mining Division. The underground workings are at 1158 metres elevation above sea level.

Regionally, the area lies on the western margin of the Kootenay Arc, in allochthonous rocks of the Quesnel Terrane. In the vicinity of the occurrence, the Quesnel Terrane is dominated by the Upper Triassic Slocan Group, a thick sequence of deformed and metamorphosed shale, argillite, siltstone, quartzite and minor limestone. Rocks of the Slocan Group are tightly and disharmonically folded. Early minor folds are tight to isoclinal with moderate east plunging, southeast inclined axial planes and younger folds are open, southwest plunging with subhorizontal axial planes. The sedimentary sequence has been regionally metamorphosed to lower greenschist facies.

South of the occurrence, the Slocan Group has been intruded by the Middle Jurassic Nelson intrusions which comprise at least six texturally and compositionally distinct phases ranging from diorite to lamprophyre. The most dominant phase is a medium to coarse grained potassium feldspar porphyritic granite. Several feldspar porphyritic granodiorite dikes, apparently related to the Nelson intrusions, also cut the sedimentary sequence near the occurrence (Paper 1989-5).

The property is underlain by banded, grey quartzite and black argillite of the Slocan Group. The sedimentary rocks strike northwest and form part of an anticline with limbs dipping 40 to 45 degrees southwest. The rocks are cut by quartz porphyritic dikes and sills.

The occurrence includes three adits totalling about 300 metres of tunnelling. The adits follow a fissure vein lying at the contact between argillite and a large porphyritic granite dike. The dike strikes northwest and dips steeply southwest. Within the underground workings the fissure vein consisted mainly of quartz which locally contains appreciable amounts of galena, sphalerite and pyrite. The vein, which was in part hosted by the porphyritic dike, pinched out against a fault zone and was not located beyond the fault.

A total of 16 tonnes were mined from the adits in 1917 to produce 4914 grams of silver and 6290 kilograms of zinc.

Yukon Minerals Corporation investigated the property in 1986.