The Virginia showing is located roughly 500 metres west of the Highland Surprise (082KSW037), 28 kilometres northwest of Kaslo, British Columbia.

A serpentinite belt about 300 metres wide cuts through the Kaslo Group, adjacent to the Highland Surprise. The main lithologies of the area are assigned to the Permian Kaslo Group consisting of andesite flows, pyroclastics and tuffaceous sediments. Volcanics are extensively chlorite altered and schistose. The reader is referred to the Highland Surprise for a more detailed description of the geology of the area. The serpentinite is largely altered to talc, chrysotile with grains of magnetite, chromite? and some carbonate.

Conspicuous amounts of talc and mariposite occur at the Virginia showing where a large serpentinite body, located in the vicinity of the quartz veins, is largely altered to talc and brownish weathered (Ca-Mg-Fe) carbonate (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 173). The surrounding massive greenstones are altered to chlorite, serpentine, uralite, saussurite and albite. The alteration is believed to be related to intrusion of the Nelson batholith. Similar to the Tom 3 showing, 2.5 kilometres to the northwest, the Virginia showing also hosts chrysotile along hairline fractures. Refer to the Tom 3 (082KSW139) for a detailed description of the mode of occurrence for chrysotile.