The Silvercross showing is located on a ridge west of the Nitinat River and north east of Tuck Lake, approximately 33 kilometres southeast of Port Alberni and 8 kilometres northwest of the west end of Cowichan Lake.

The area is underlain by Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group rocks comprising mainly amygdaloidal basalts and lesser silicified andesites and volcanic rocks of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation, Vancouver Group.

Locally, disseminated to massive bornite and malachite are seen in epidote-calcite-quartz veinlets hosted in silicified andesite in an old pit. The veinlets are thought to be deuterically related to the original magma. The mineralized zone exposed in the pit is 1.5 metres wide with unknown length. Alteration minerals are the same as those filling the amygdales, which are mainly chlorite and palagonite.

In 1986, Ashworth Explorations, on the behalf of Payton Ventures, completed a program of geological mapping, prospecting, soil sampling and rock sampling. Sampling indicated that silver is associated with the copper mineralization, assaying up to 95.9 grams per tonne silver and greater than 10 per cent copper from grab samples of the pit (Assessment Report 15958). There is evidence of previous work on the property but none has been documented.