The Davis showing is located on the north slope of Vermillion Mountain, which forms the steep south bank of Wolfe Creek near its confluence with the Similkameen River, 15 kilometres east-southeast of Princeton.

A series of quartz porphyry and granite porphyry dykes intrude diorite of the Early Jurassic Bromley batholith, 1 kilometre east of Wolfe Lake. The parallel dykes strike north, dip 60 to 70 degrees east and are 30 metres apart. The diorite is overlain by tuff and volcanic breccia of the Eocene Princeton Group farther up the valley side.

The diorite is cut by north-striking fractures in the vicinity of the dykes. These fractures contain malachite, chalcopyrite and pyrite in a siliceous gangue. Assays indicate the presence of gold and silver (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1908, page 131). This mineralization occurs in several lenticular zones over widths of a few centimetres to 1.2 metres.

The showing was explored by stripping, trenching and tunnelling in 1908 and 1923.