The Linson View occurrence is located at 1830 metres elevation above sea level near the head of Mobbs Creek, 3 kilometres northwest of Tenderfoot Lake in the Slocan Mining Division.

Regionally, the area lies within the Selkirk Mountains of southeastern British Columbia. The occurrence is within the Kootenay Arc, a curving belt of highly deformed metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks which includes the Upper Proterozoic Horsethief Creek Group, the Upper Proterozoic to Lower Cambrian Hamill Group, the Lower Cambrian Badshot Formation, and the Paleozoic Lardeau and Milford groups. The volcano-sedimentary sequence is intruded by numerous Paleozoic to Mesozoic granitoid plutons.

The Tenderfoot Lake area is mainly underlain by the Mesozoic Mobbs Creek and Rapid Creek quartz monzonite stocks and the Early Jurassic Kuskanax monzonite batholith to the west. Grey quartz mica schist of the Broadview Formation along with marble, micaceous schist and amphibolite of the Paleozoic Milford Group form tightly folded rafts between the stocks and the batholith. The rocks have undergone contact and regional metamorphism to middle or upper greenschist facies (Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 193).

The Linson View occurrence consists of three quartz veins within and near the contact of the Kuskanax monzonite batholith. The No. 1 vein is mineralized with galena, sphalerite, pyrite and tetrahedrite. The vein occupies a fault within the monzonite and is between 1 and 2 metres wide. It has been developed by a crosscut and a 10-metre deep shaft. A 410-kilogram high grade bulk sample was sent to a smelter in 1914. The sample assayed 8953 grams per tonne silver and 12.3 per cent lead (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1914). The No. 2 vein is at the contact between micaceous schist and marble. The vein is 10 to 20 centimetres wide and contains galena, pyrite and tetrahedrite. The No. 3 vein is hosted within carbonaceous schist 15 metres above the No. 2 vein; it is up to 3 metres wide and sparsely mineralized with galena and pyrite.