The Ellen showing is located in a small creek gully east of lower Little Memekay River, approximately 1 kilometre south west of Salmon River on a private logging road off of Provincial Highway 19.

The area is underlain by basalt and andesite flows, breccia and tuff of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation. The basalt is primarily dark green, fine-grained and dense but certain areas are amygdaloidal with abundant amygdules of quartz, epidote and calcite.

Locally, disseminated chalcopyrite and bornite occur in amygdaloidal basalt. A composite sample from disseminated areas along the logging road assay 1.06 per cent copper, 13.712 grams per tonne silver, 0.1714 grams per tonne gold and trace molybdenum. A narrow (5 to 8 centimetre) stringer, well mineralized with chalcopyrite and chalcocite assayed 9.44 per cent copper, 17.14 grams per tonne silver, 0.3428 grams per tonne gold and trace molybdenum (Property File, Prospectus, 1970).