The Edict mercury showing is located on the steep banks of a dry gulch just north of the east end of the railway tunnel of the Canadian National Railway, east of Copper Creek. The occurrence is on the south facing slopes of Painted Bluffs and below the Tenderfoot workings (092INE033).

An opencut with a large number of dolomite stringers up to 2 centimetres wide occur in a tuff of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group. Scattered grains of cinnabar occur in the dolomite. A second cut about 7 metres east contains a pile of rock at one end which was probably made while digging the cut. This pile shows stringers of dolomite with a few grains of cinnabar. About 38 metres east of this last cut, two others had been made, one on each side of the gulch. A granitic body crosses immediately below the cuts and the volcanic rocks exhibit numerous quartz and dolomite stringers. Some stringers contain grains of cinnabar. The cut on the north side of the gulch has a 3-metre adit at its end driven westerly (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 249).