The Evening Star property is at 1675 metres elevation on the slopes east of Dayton Creek, 4.5 kilometres due east of Slocan. Access to the property is from a switchback mountain road that joins the Springer Creek road at Coldwell Creek, about 8 kilometres by road east of the Slocan highway.
The Evening Star property, which was first staked in 1894, comprises the Evening Star No. 8 (Lot 5226), Silver Crown (Lot 5227), Eclipse No. 2 (Lot 5229), Columbia No. 5 (Lot 5225), Somerset (Lot 5224) and Unknown Group (Lot 5230) Crown granted claims and fractions.
A quartz vein in Nelson granite has been explored by an adit and shaft. The vein strikes variably from 150 to 175 degrees, dips 55 to 75 degrees northeast. It is about 1 metre wide and carries some pyrite and galena.
Production of mainly hand cobbed ore from this property in 1896, 1918 and 1941 totals 42 tonnes grading 23 grams per tonne gold and 6646 grams per tonne silver.