The Shev occurrence is located on a ridge north of Eric Creek, approximately 2 kilometres north west of Faith Lake.

The area is primarily underlain by basalt of the Upper Triassic Vancouver Group, Karmutsen Formation which consists of flows, pillow breccia, aquagene tuff, and some thin sedimentary layers. This unit is intruded by a hornblende quartz diorite stock of the Late Eocene to Early Oligocene Mount Washington Intrusive Suite (formerly Catface Intrusions), then cut by a felsite sill. The dominant structures are steeply dipping, intersecting north and east trending shears and faults. Bedding is gently warped, with an average strike of 230 degrees and dip of 15 degrees north.

The Shev breccia showing consists of a poorly exposed 20 by 1 metre exposure of highly altered monolithic breccia with clasts of mafic volcanic rock up to 15 centimetres in size. The top of the showing is cut by a white felsic dike, striking roughly east. Carson relates the brecciation of the host rocks to the forcible intrusion of the Tertiary intrusive complex and describes this showing as a porphyry copper type deposit (Geological Survey of Canada Paper 68-50, p. 45).

Pervasive sericitic alteration is characteristic of the zone, varying in intensity from moderate to strong. Silicic and clay alteration are also present but subordinate to the sericitization. The intensity of the mineralization is proportional to the intensity of the alteration. Arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite are the dominant sulphides. The percentage of chalcopyrite is never more than 3 per cent. Arsenopyrite can form up to 5 per cent but averages 1 to 2 per cent.

Occasional samples have assayed as high as 12.34 grams per tonne gold and 61.71 grams per tonne silver but are generally much lower (McDougall, 1964). In 1964, three pack sack drill holes yielded values up to 27.4 grams per tonne gold and 43.5 grams per tonne silver over 1.52 metres (Hole 2; Assessment Report 16866).

In 1969, Falconbridge completed a ground self potential geophysical survey on the Faith and Rim claims to the north west of Faith Lake. In 1987, Falconbridge completed a program of geological mapping, ground geophysical surveys and rock and soil sampling.