The Densy showing is located 7 kilometres west of Vernon, north of Okanagan Lake. The British Empire showing (082LSW034) is 220 to 250 metres to the southeast.
In this area, west of the Okanagan Valley fault zone, volcanic and sedimentary rocks of the Devonian to Triassic Harper Ranch Group are unconformably overlain by Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Nicola Group sedimentary and volcanic rocks. These units are intruded by Middle Jurassic granitic rocks informally named the Terrace Creek batholith. Patches of Eocene Penticton Group volcanic rocks overlie the older rocks.
Quartz veins in Harper Ranch siltstones, quartzites and volcanic rocks host gold and copper mineralization.
An adit was driven on 3 narrow quartz veins with free gold and which assayed 33.25 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 18983). The veins are hosted in iron-carbonate-sericite altered dirty quartzite and carry disseminated pyrite, chalcopyrite and native gold. One vein is up to 1.8 metres thick.
Four veins are exposed in outcrops above the adit and 13 to 75 metres southeast of the portal. The best sample in 1988 was from a vein 0.5 metre west of the main vein. This vein, up to 8 centi- metres wide, strikes 40 degrees and dips vertically. The sample assayed 0.71 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 18983).
The Densy claim was Crown-granted in 1898 and by 1899 a 40-metre adit and 4 shafts had been developed. The veins were sampled in 1988 by G. Benvenuto with disappointing results.