The Silver Queen showing is located 19 kilometres northeast of Vernon on Silver Star Mountain.

The area is underlain by Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Nicola Group sedimentary and volcanic rocks. These are faulted over metasedimentary rocks of the Proterozoic Silver Creek Formation.

Nicola Group calcareous argillite hosts mineralization in a 1.2 to 2.1 metre thick quartz vein in the axial plane of a minor fold. The footwall of the vein is argillite and the hangingwall is a granite dike(?). Galena, sphalerite, pyrite and chalcopyrite are present. The vein strikes 070 degrees and dips between 20 and 50 degrees south.

A sample from initial surface sampling in 1896 assayed 13.4 grams per tonne gold ($8) and 83.6 grams per tonne silver ($50) (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1896 page 579). Shipments in 1948 and 1950, totalling 3.4 tonnes, assayed 870 grams per tonne silver, 13 per cent lead and 1 per cent zinc.

Argentiferous galena also occurs in a 10 centimeter quartz stringer in quartzite.

Mineralization may be related to the major fault which separates the Nicola and Silver Creek rocks.

Exploration, by an 8 metre shaft, was first reported in 1896. By 1902, two shafts were reported; 20 and 14 metres deep. In 1948 and 1950, 3.4 tonnes were shipped producing 2955 grams of silver, 444 kilograms of lead, and 49 kilograms of zinc.