The Silver Bell workings are situated 750 metres east of Illecillewaet River and the Trans-Canada Highway, about 1.5 kilometres northeast of Illecillewaet Station of the Canadian Pacific Railway, 42 kilometres east-northeast of Revelstoke.

In the vicinity of the adits, a series of parallel quartz veins striking east and dipping from 50 to 75 degrees north, are hosted in carbonaceous slaty shales of the Lower Cambrian and younger Lardeau Group. The veins appear to conform to the bedding of the shale.

The main adit follows a quartz vein 20 to 45 centimetres wide, striking 255 degrees and dipping 50 to 75 degrees north. Mineralization in the vein comprises galena, sphalerite and pyrite. A chip sample taken from dump material at the adit yielded 7.5 per cent lead, 14.25 per cent zinc and 257.1 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 12951).

A trial shipment of ore was made in 1901.