The Atkins Road deposit is located along Atkins Avenue, adjacent to the E & N Railway, 1.4 kilometres east of Langford Station and 9 kilometres west of Victoria.

The deposit consists of a mass of limestone hosted in the Wark Gneiss. The Wark Gneiss is possibly the metamorphic equivalent of a mafic unit of either the Paleozoic Sicker Group or the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group); the latest metamorphism took place in the Jurassic. The limestone, up to 60 metres wide, outcrops for 200 to 300 metres along both sides of the road and railway. The limestone is cut by a few contorted diabase dykes and banding dips west. A thick deposit of glaciofluvial sand and gravel partially covers the limestone.

The limestone is fine grained, light bluish grey and lightly banded and is generally high in calcium. A few small masses of dolomite are exposed in the west face of a quarry south of the road and railway. A chip sample taken at 1.8-metre intervals across 18 metres in a small pit north of Atkins Avenue contained 55.2 per cent CaO, 0.11 per cent MgO, 0.6 per cent insolubles, 0.08 per cent R2O3, 0.087 per cent Fe2O3, 0.010 per cent MnO, 0.014 per cent P2O5, 0.017 per cent sulphur, 43.6 per cent ignition loss and 0.14 per cent water (Bulletin 40, page 91).

Limestone was produced from three small quarries on the north side of the road and railway and one larger quarry on the south side. Production figures from this occurrence are not available.