The Lavina prospect is situated near the peak of Mount Lavina in the Slocan Mining Division. The property consists of five Crown grants, Lot 3785 (Iron Cap), Lot 3786 (Ruthie Bell), Lot 3787 (St. Joseph), Lot 3789 (Bute Fraction) and Lot 3784 (Lavina). The main workings are on Crown grant Lot 3784.

Regionally, the area lies within the Kootenay Arc near the margins of the Ancestral North American Terrane. The Kootenay Arc is a curving belt of highly deformed metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks which includes the Upper Proterozoic Horsethief Creek Group, the Eocambrian Hamill Group, the Lower Cambrian Badshot Formation, and the lower Paleozoic Lardeau Group. The volcano-sedimentary sequence is intruded by numerous Ordovician, Devonian and Mississippian granitoid plutons. The rocks have undergone regional metamorphism to middle or upper greenschist facies (Paper 1993-1).

The occurrence is in limestone and dolomite of the Lower Cambrian Badshot Formation on the eastern limb of the Duncan anticline (Geological Survey of Canada Map 1326A). The formation strikes northwest and dips between 35 and 60 degrees to the east. The main workings consist of two interconnecting adits on the north slope of Lavina Ridge. Mineralization within the workings consisted of a series of lenticular quartz and calcite veins less than 10 centimetres wide containing fine to medium-grained galena and cerussite. The ore was best developed in the limestone below a narrow band of dark grey biotite schist.

Two hundred and twenty-nine tonnes of ore were mined from this property to produce 276,754 grams of silver, 124,340 kilograms of lead and 2335 kilograms of zinc.