The Independence showing is reported in the Minister of Mines Annual Report 1896 (page 74) as being located 6.4 kilometres above the mouth of Caribou Creek. The showing is said to be "a large body of quartz, interspersed with pyrrhotite, iron pyrites and galena."

This location would put the showing in an area underlain by mafic volcanic rocks and clastic metasedimentary rocks (argillites and quartzites) of the Triassic Slocan Group. Quartz monzonite of the Cretaceous Goat Canyon-Halifax Creek stock outcrops south of the area.

It is possible that the showing is the same occurrence as the Chieftain (082KSW054).