The Silver Crest property is located along the precipitous summits midway between Slocan Lake and Kootenay Lake, 18 kilometres east of Slocan City. Access to the property is 7 kilometres by trail proceeding easterly from the Lemon Creek road.

Formerly part of the German Group (in 1916), the property was worked as the Silver Crest and White Heather in 1921. Work on the Silver Crest consisted of open cuts on top of a precipitous bluff at 2590 metres elevation. The bluff falls abruptly for 430 metres towards Lemon Creek and the workings are reached by a roundabout route which culminates in the Sapphire Lakes glacial basin situated below the summit of Sunset Mountain.

The mineralization occurs in a fissure vein in Nelson granite. A basic micaceous lamprophyre dike follows close to the vein on the hangingwall side. The strike of the vein conforms to the northeas- southwest trend of the summit of the mountain and the dip is steep southeasterly. The vein varies in width from 20 to 30 centimetres where exposed in the open cut and, to about a metre depth, the wall rocks are somewhat decomposed and rusty. The associated minerals are pyrite and galena in quartz gangue. A sample across the vein yielded 62 grams per tonne gold, 620 grams per tonne silver and 7.6 per cent lead (Annual Report, 1921, p. 141).

On the White Heather, located 430 metres below the Silver Crest, open cuts and a 45-metre cross-cut, with a 90-metre drift exposed veins with minor mineralization. A 15-centimetre sample assayed 7.54 grams per tonne gold, 315.43 grams per tonne silver and 0.1 per cent lead (Annual Report 1921, page 141).

A vein sample taken in 1987 assayed 1.9 grams per tonne gold, 46 grams per tonne silver, 0.97 per cent lead and 0.42 per cent zinc (Open File 1988-11).