The Painted Bluff occurrence is located about 500 metres east of the Tenderfoot workings (092INE033) near the summit of Painted Bluffs. The showing is a mineralized shear zone in augite porphyritic tuff of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group. The shear zone strikes 065 degrees, dips vertically and varies from 30 to 76 centimetres wide. The shear zone contains stringers of quartz up to 1 centimetre wide which are variably mineralized with tetrahedrite, azurite and malachite.

A 6-metre adit follows the main mineralized shear. Between this adit and the Tenderfoot workings to the west is a group of cuts and short adit (15 metres long) that investigate other shear zones containing quartz-calcite veinlets mineralized with chalcopyrite, bornite and malachite.

In 1992, a rock sample taken from a mineralized shear that was probably part of the original Painting Bluff showing, analysed 1.03 per cent copper and 9.3 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 22620).