The Silver Glance showing is located northwest of the Lanark occurrence (082N 012), above timber-line at the headwaters of "9-Mile Creek", a tributary of Tangier River, about 28 kilometres north of Albert Canyon Station on the Canadian Pacific Railway, 44 kilometres northeast of Revelstoke.

The geology is similar to that at Lanark and consists of limestone and slate of the Lower Cambrian and younger Lardeau Group. Stannite is reported to occur with argentiferous galena in limestone.