The Elaine showing is located on the southeast slope of Holmes Mountain, 1.2 kilometres northeast of the Similkameen River and 9 kilometres east-northeast of Princeton.

The region north of the Similkameen River is underlain to the east by intrusive rocks of the Early Jurassic Bromley batholith, and to the west by volcanics and minor sediments of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group.

Sulphide mineralization occurs over a width of 5 metres in a cliff face at the contact between andesites and basalts of the Nicola Group and granodiorite of the Bromley batholith. Mineralization consists of chalcopyrite and pyrite, with abundant malachite staining. A grab sample assayed trace silver and greater than 5 per cent copper (Assessment Report 3395, page 4).

This showing was initially explored between 1908 and 1919. Abella Resources Inc. conducted limited prospecting and sampling in 1971.